TELLURIDE.... After a two-year hiatus due to Covid-19, live poetry is returning to town. The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Program has teamed up with Telluride Arts to present an in-person outdoor reading series on ArtWalk’s first Thursday of each month this summer to be called Walking Talking Gourds.

After a successful first live reading at the Sheridan Opera House featuring Art Goodtimes, the Walking Talking Gourds will move to the Transfer Warehouse for the next live show, Thursday, July 7th at 5:30pm during ArtWalk. Peter Waldor of Trout Lake and Lisa Flowers of Nederland will be headlining. The event is free and everyone is encouraged to bring a poem to share. The prompt for July is "Celebrating Ruins."