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22/06/2024

22/06/2024

Congratulations to Peter Anderson for winning the 2024 tonight for Reading Colorado: A Literary Road Guide. So many years, so much work, and well deserved. https://bookshop.org/p/books/reading-colorado-a-literary-road-guide-peter-anderson/16209719

31/05/2024

READING COLORADO: A LITERARY ROAD GUIDE is a finalist for the Colorado Book Award for 2024. This book, long in the making, is a high-octane road trip through the diverse literary landscapes of the Centennial State, gathering narratives of exploration, stories from the mining and agricultural frontiers, urban tales reflecting the emergence and growth of Denver and the Front Range, and a diverse range of contemporary voices, from the Plains to the Peaks, who invite readers into their home territory. https://www.bowerhousebooks.com/shop/reading-colorado/

29/05/2024

Addie Tsai's WRITING AS A VESSEL FOR CHAOS: A LETTER TO HIGH SCHOOLERS will be featured in the upcoming WE CAN SEE INTO ANOTHER PLACE: MILE-HIGH WRITERS ON SOCIAL JUSTICE, co-published by Bower House and BookBar Press and releasing on July 1, 2024. In Writing as a Vessel for Chaos, Addie explores the way domestic violence and abuse can silence a voice, and how writing helped her to reclaim it. Addie Tsai (any/all) is a q***r nonbinary artist and writer of color who teaches creative writing at William & Mary. They have also taught in Goddard College's MFA Program in Interdisciplinary Arts and Regis University’s Mile High MFA Program in Creative Writing. Addie collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein and Camille Claudel, among others. They earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a Ph.D. in Dance from Texas Woman’s University. Addie is the author of Dear Twin and Unwieldy Creatures. She is the Fiction co-Editor and Editor of Features & Reviews at Anomaly, contributing writer at Spectrum South, and Founding Editor & Editor in Chief at just femme dandy. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Headline reads We Can See into Another Place: Mile-High Writers on Social Justice. Quote reads, “There would be other mentors, other teachers down the line who would do something similar for me, but she was the first one to show me that I could use the poem as the vessel for trying to understand the chaos that was my life then. It is a practice I have never forgotten...” -Addie Tsai, Writing as a Vessel for Chaos

29/05/2024

A TRAGEDY IN THE SNOW by R. Alan Brooks will be featured in the upcoming WE CAN SEE INTO ANOTHER PLACE: MILE-HIGH WRITERS ON SOCIAL JUSTICE, co-published by Bower House and BookBar Press and releasing on July 1, 2024. "In his graphic narrative piece, R. Alan Brooks asks, 'In the face of such tragedy, can art be something worthwhile?” This question is beautifully answered by Brooks himself: 'There’s a reason dictators & politicians ban your art. It’s because they have no doubts about its power...'" (from the Introduction) R. Alan Brooks teaches graphic novel writing for Regis University’s MFA program and Lighthouse Writers Workshop. He’s the author of The Burning Metronome and Anguish Garden, graphic novels featuring social commentary, and “What’d I Miss?,” the award-winning weekly comic for The Colorado Sun. His TED Talk on the importance of art reached 1 million views in 2 months. His graphic novel work is featured in the Denver Art Museum, and he hosts the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art’s “How Art Is Born” podcast, as well as his own “MotherF**ker In A Cape” comics podcast, and has written comic books for Image Comics, Zenescope Entertainment, Pop Culture Classroom, and more.

29/05/2024

BookBar Press and Bower House are excited to join forces to co-publish WE CAN SEE INTO ANOTHER PLACE: MILE-HIGH WRITERS ON SOCIAL JUSTICE releasing on July 1, 2024! This powerful multi-genre collection is filled with some of the most inspiring literary voices in and we'll be sharing about the incredible contributors over the next couple weeks. Meet Andrea Rexilius, anthology editor extraordinaire, poet, and program director for Regis University’s Mile High MFA in Creative Writing. Andrea is the author of Sister Urn (2019), New Organism: Essais (2014), Half of What They Carried Flew Away (2012), and To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation (2011), as well as the chapbooks, Séance (2014), To Be Human (2010), and Afterworld (2020). She earned an MFA in Poetry from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2005), and a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Denver (2010). She also teaches in the Poetry Collective at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, Colorado.

29/05/2024

After a small delay, we're thrilled to share that our upcoming anthology, WE CAN SEE INTO ANOTHER PLACE: MILE-HIGH WRITERS ON SOCIAL JUSTICE, co-published with BookBar Press, will debut on July 1, 2024! We promise it will be worth the wait! This is an incredibly powerful collection of some of Denver's most exciting literary voices, including: .shank

But, don't just take our word for it...the phenomenal author has this to say about it: "“This book is lovely, instructive, thought-provoking, and occasionally hard to read for all the right reasons. These stories, poems, plays, and graphic artwork are deeply important. Study these works, and you can learn an enormous amount of beneficial knowledge. I also loved the introductory essay and the questions at the end about how to create the best possible future we can make going forward.” –HELEN THORPE, author of The Newcomers, Soldier Girls and Just Like Us

30/10/2023

Tonight, October 30, 6:00 PM at Tattered Cover's east Colfax store. Come on down and get inspired for your own adventure or simply enjoy Michael's wonderful tale of riding the Colorado Trail.

17/10/2023

The Tattered Cover is struggling and trying to correct course, please give them your support and show some love for Michael Henry by coming out on October 30th to get your copy of Mountain Biking the Colorado Trail signed!

Tattered Cover is pleased to welcome Michael Henry to our Colfax location on October 30th at 6:00pm! Michael will be presenting his book, Mountain Biking the Colorado Trail: Tips, Tricks, and What You Need to Know for a Great Bike-Packing Experience! This event is free to the public and no ticket is...

17/10/2023

Here's a fantastic conversation with Peter Anderson, author of Reading Colorado: A Literary Road Guide, as part of the Western Colorado Writers Podcast.

This year, Colorado author, poet, journalist, and Crestone Poetry Festival founder Peter Anderson completed a book ten years in the making. Reading Colorado: A Literary Road Guide takes readers on major and minor highways throughout Colorado, making place-centric literary pit-stops along the way. In...

27/03/2023

Sean Prentiss shares the 5 best books on reads by or about to Edward Abbey. Have you read Desert Solitaire?

06/04/2022

Going to Trinidad: A Doctor, A Colorado Town, and Stories from an Unlikely Gender Crossroads—has been selected as a finalist in the 2022 Colorado Book Awards History category. Congratulations Martin J. Smith!

18/05/2021

If you tune in to Colorado Matters on Colorado Public Radio today at 9a, you'll hear Martin J. Smith talk about GOING TO TRINIDAD. It's a fascinating story, so listen up!

15/04/2021

A great podcast interview of Martin J. Smith.

For forty years, Trinidad, Colorado was known amongst locals, and those in the transgender community, as the “sex-change capital of the wo...

14/04/2021

The Hill published a little piece by Martin J. Smith on what he learned while writing GOING TO TRINIDAD: "I, too, was frighteningly comfortable with my ignorance, flawed assumptions, and biases. But I was wrong. It’s vital for each of us to educate ourselves — not just about gender identity, but about systemic racism, religious intolerance, or any of the other complex issues actively being used to divide Americans from one another. . . . What I learned along the way makes it impossible to tolerate the demonization of people who each day must summon the courage to simply be themselves."

Lessons learned while writing “Going to Trinidad.”

13/04/2021

High Country News weighs in on GOING TO TRINIDAD: "As a record of institutionalized perspectives on transgender people and the dominant beliefs concerning us at the time, TRINIDAD is indispensable. In a world that demeans, dehumanizes and discriminates against trans people, it is the story of a doctor who offered them a sense of ownership over their bodies. Ultimately, it’s a brutal telling — hard to read, though vital to hear."

In ‘Going to Trinidad,’ histories illuminate — and obscure — the outcomes of gender transition.

13/04/2021

Check out Denver Westword's excellent review of Martin J. Smith's GOING TO TRINIDAD!

Martin J. Smith's Going to Trinidad chronicles the history of the former gender-confirmation surgery capital of the world.

12/04/2021

In his latest book, Martin Smith dives into the history of Trinidad, once known as the world's "sex-change capital."

05/04/2021

Check out this gorgeous excerpt of GOING TO TRINIDAD that 5280 Magazine published in this month's issue! The book releases on April 15...reserve your copy at any seller of fine books.

For decades, thousands of people came to Trinidad, Colorado, to have gender confirmation surgery done by Dr. Stanley Biber. This excerpt from Going To Trinidad tells his—and one of his patient's—poignant stories.

23/03/2021

We couldn't be more thrilled with the upcoming release of GOING TO TRINIDAD by Martin J. Smith! Releases April 15...order your copy now from any fine bookseller.

15/01/2021

Today's the big day! Start the year off right with a novel about trying to move on from a dark past with love and wit A unique blend of family history and magical realism in the tradition of Kent Haruf and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rick Collignon gives us his best book yet. https://www.bowerhousebooks.com/shop/lost-in-a-place-so-small/

13/01/2021

This Friday, get Lost in a Place So Small: Rick Collignon 's (author of Perdido) quietly atmospheric novel that shifts between horror and magical realism for a story of crime in a remote New Mexico village ( ). Available everywhere fine books are sold. https://bookshop.org/books/lost-in-a-place-so-small/9781942280668

14/05/2020

01/05/2020

Michael Henry, author of Active Gods, has a new poem out. It feels perfect for today.

Colorado authors, thinkers and readers share their thoughts on living through historic times as the state fights the progress of coronavirus

22/04/2020

To mark this year, David Helvarg, author of THE WAR AGAINST THE GREENS, reflects on how the US went from being a leader in environmental stewardship fifty years ago to "doing all [we] can to dismantle the nation’s green legacy and sell it off for parts."

Fifty years after the first Earth Day, the connection between the environment and human health has never been more obvious.

27/02/2020

19/11/2019

Jonathan Bailey's ROCK ART is highlighted in Tucson local media. https://www.tucsonlocalmedia.com/news/article_b67b249a-f4ed-11e9-bc95-cfaf43413c65.html?fbclid=IwAR1kjG9dojpMskbmP4GSe4BQIziQAmBb1WIvDtnQCNxa7Jh-ciHtHHa1yBE

08/11/2019

Thank you, Colorado Public Radio, for this tribute!

A former Denver poet laureate and award-winning author died Monday. Chris Ransick was 57. He had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year. One of his friends told the Denver Post, Ransick was "just a real mensch"-- Yiddish for a good guy. We spoke with Ransick several times over the years. He...

07/11/2019

Denver Post on Chris Ransick's Passing

Chris Ransick, an award-winning writer who wrote six books of poetry and fiction and served as Denver’s Poet Laureate from 2006 to 2010, has died.

05/11/2019

The passing of Chris Ransick is a blow to us all...and as usual he has the right words for it in his poem "The Morning of My Release".

Remembering Chris RansickThe passing of Chris Ransick is a blow to all of us. He was passionate, generous of spirit, kind, intelligent, quick to laugh, quick to fight for what’s right, a defender of words and the greater good and how they serve each other. He modeled how to live a good life, how t...