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Saturday, May 24
 

9:00am MDT

Environmental Poetry Workshop with Rajiv Mohabir TICKETED
Saturday May 24, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
This generative session with poet Rajiv Mohabir (Whale Aria, Antiman, I Will Not Go) is a must-do for nature writers.

Poet, memoirist, and translator, Rajiv Mohabir is the author of five books of poetry that have been awarded gold in Forward Indies and Eric Hoffer Medal Provocateur. His other honors include being finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/America Open Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, and both second place and finalist for the Guyana Prize for Literature. His translations have won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the American Academy of Poets. Currently he teaches poetry at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Rajiv Mohabir

Poet, memoirist, and translator, Rajiv Mohabir is the author of five books of poetry that have been awarded gold in Forward Indies and Eric Hoffer Medal Provocateur. His other honors include being finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/America Open Book Award... Read More →
Saturday May 24, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
3 Hawk Room

2:15pm MDT

Godfather Meets Game of Thrones with Paolo Bacigalupi and Olivia Chadha TICKETED
Saturday May 24, 2025 2:15pm - 3:15pm MDT
National Book Award Finalist, Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Paolo Bacigalupi discusses his newest book, Navola with author Olivia Chadha. 
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Olivia Chadha

Olivia Chadha writes science fiction, fantasy, comic books, and literary novels for MG, YA, and adult audiences. She has a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing and her research centers on the history of exile, India’s Partition, precarious borders and boundaries, global folklore... Read More →
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Paolo Bacigalupi

Paolo Bacigalupi is an internationally bestselling author of speculative fiction. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, John W. Campbell and Locus Awards, as well as being a finalist for the National Book Award and a winner of the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young... Read More →
Saturday May 24, 2025 2:15pm - 3:15pm MDT
1 Steddy Theater
 
Sunday, May 25
 

10:15am MDT

Orchids, Orchids, Orchids: Repetition as Revolution, Poetry w/Erica Reid
Sunday May 25, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am MDT
Guided by poems from Kaveh Akbar, Wendy Videlock, A. E. Stallings, Joy Harjo, and more, this class examines the ways that the repetition of a single word can have a cumulative and explosive effect on a poem.

Erica Reid is the author of Ghost Man on Second, winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize (Autumn House Press, 2024). Erica’s poems appear in Rattle, Cherry Tree, Colorado Review, and more. Erica is a 2025 Fellow at the Vermont Center for the Creative Arts and teaches in Western Colorado University’s MFA program. ericareidpoet.com
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Erica Reid

Erica Reid is the author of Ghost Man on Second, winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize (Autumn House Press, 2024). Erica’s poems appear in Rattle, Cherry Tree, Colorado Review, and more. Erica is a 2025 Fellow at the Vermont Center for the Creative Arts and teaches in Western... Read More →
Sunday May 25, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am MDT
3 Hawk Room
 
Mountain Words Festival
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