“Let there be Form” Pleaded Something That felt too much Apart, too distant And so the concentration began – A hunkering down Of gasses, a conviction A coolness, a slowing down of Molecules, Until there in the center Of the universe Came spinning gently This liquid blue orb. And how lovely she played The soliloquy, […]
We make things. We do things. And we’re smarter than you think. Our language is basic, but we mean what we say. We judge others based less on words and more on actions. You learned how to make a living from words, but you don’t follow the rules you try to impose on others. You
Rye Curtis will read from his novel Kingdomtide at the Pikes Peak Community College Downtown Studio Art Gallery on Wednesday, February 19th, at 7:00 p.m. Kingdomtide was named one of the best books of January 2020 by O, The Oprah Magazine. In the novel, 72-year-old Cloris Waldrip survives a devastating plane crash only to find herself
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Wait… hold the tar and feathers. I know it sounds like heresy, but I want to argue that it’s actually a good thing for the Broncos that the Chiefs won the Super Bowl. I know a lot of Bronco Country was rooting for Kansas City to lose. They are our loathsome rivals, after all, and
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When I wrote in my article “Altitude Sickness” about working at a local five-star hotel and the experiences I had with guests there, those anecdotes happened when I worked for the children’s program. I spent the eight years previous to that working in the retail part of the hotel. In fact, my first job ever
Recently, I started writing a few poems based on snippets from television, usually ones I hear as I’m walking past it on my way somewhere else. At first, I thought of this as just an exercise to get my creative turbines spinning, but then I realized things intentionally taken out of context can make for some