Karen Sucharski is a past Pikes Peak Art Council Performance Poet of the Year who teaches performance poetry and has hosted an open mike reading in Manitou Springs for the past three years.
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Laura Stuckey teaches English at The Bijou School in Colorado Springs and is currently president of Poetry West.
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K.D. Huxman is a children’s writer and poet who loves living in the shadow of Pikes Peak.
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Julianza K. Shavin, composer and visual artist, runs the “Live and Breathe Society” open mike in Manitou Springs and serves as vice-president of Blissfest, an annual arts event to raise money for charitable causes.
“Untotalled” by Julianza Shavin
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Joseph A. Uphoff edits the Journal of Regional Criticism.
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Jessy Randall is the Curator of Special Collections at Colorado College.
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Jesse Goolsby’s work has appeared in Harpur Palate, Storyglossia, Breakwater Review, Paradigm, Vestal Review, War, Literature & the Arts, Oak Bend Review, and various anthologies, and his short story “Derrin of the North” won the 2009 John Gardner Memorial Award in Fiction.
“Camouflage Doesn’t Work When They See You Dress” by Jesse Goolsby
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James Gleason Bishop lives in Colorado Springs and teaches English at the Air Force Academy.
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Helena HoTseung runs and writes.
“My Grandmother’s Hands” by Helena HoTseung
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Emma Siebert, 10, is a fourth-grader who lives with her family in Colorado Springs.
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