Wyoming Arts Council

Amy Kitchener, literary activist and "Angel"

Check out Amy’s “Literary Angels Without Wings FDN” website here: http://www.amykitchenerfdn.org/  There’s a lot going on and poetry contests to enter. Here’s a link to her newsletter, featuring Neal Whitman, the
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2012 Equality State Book Festival announces confirmed slate of authors and illustrators

Holly Wendt & Laurie Lye, co-directors of the 2012 Equality State Book Festival, send word that the bookfest web site has been updated with some exciting news to share about September’s event
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National Poetry Month is here

Couple of things from poet out-in-the-field Christine Valentine, who is also a member of WyoPoets and Wyoming Writers. One is a link to a wonderful spoken word performance by Joshua
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Rebecca Lindenberg reading on April 2 dedicated to Craig Arnold

Poet Rebecca Lindenberg will read from her first book Monday, April 2, at Second Story Books. Her collection is dedicated to the memory of University of Wyoming Associate Professor Craig
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Poetry for the Ages

2012 Wyoming Poetry Out Loud contestants Shalene Velarde sat nervously at the table while we waited for our dinners to be served. Her friends, Kayla, and Mikki, runner-up in Pathfinder
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Soldier-poet Brian Turner is judge for 2013 WAC creative writing fellowships in poetry

Brian Turner will be the judge for the 2013 Wyoming Arts Council creative writing fellowships in poetry. He is a soldier-poet who is the author of two poetry collections, Phantom Noise (2010) and Here, Bullet (2005)
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Bring your songs, stories and poems to open mic night March 28 at Laramie County Public Library

Poetry takes center stage today in Wyoming State Legislature

Wyoming Poet Laureate Pat Frolander of Sundance read from her work today in the Wyoming House. Pat read  “Houston Creek” (from her new collection Married Into It) and “Requiem in Lace” about
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Video of Wyoming Poet Laureate Pat Frolander at Poetry Out Loud competition in Cheyenne

Art Perspectives – Wyoming Poet Laureate Patricia Frolander from Indie Media: The New Journalism on Vimeo.

Sara Ellingrod of Arvada-Clearmont High School wins Poetry Out Loud title

Sara Ellingrod (center) is pictured with First Lady Carol Mead (l) and Superintendent of Public Instruction Cindy Hill (r) who presented the awards certificates to all of the participants, the
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