Poetry Matters!

Colorado poets are the heart and soul of our communities. They inspire us with their poetry. Their diverse and complex poetic voices help us understand, value and change the worlds we live in.

All of our poetry activities are free to the public.

The Colorado Poets Center is a directory of 275 Colorado poets. We add 15 new poets a year, many of whom are young, diverse and representing new communities in Colorado. Your donation of $30 helps us add one new poet to the site. There is not charge to the poets to be on the CPC website.

The Colorado Poets Center sponsors free monthly poetry readings in Boulder, Denver and other parts of Colorado.  In 2023 and 2024, 45 poets read.  Your donation of $50 helps pay a featured  poet to read.

The Colorado Poets Center publishes a free quarterly electronic newsletter, the Colorado Poet.  Your  donation of $50 helps us publish one electronic issue of the Colorado Poet newsletter.

Each issue of the Colorado Poet features two in-depth interviews with Colorado poets. . Your donation of $50 funds one poet interview.

We sponsored and recorded three free poetry webinars led by Wendy Videlock in 2023. Your donation of $25 will fund one poet at one of our future webinars; $150 will fund a webinar event in its entirety.

Your donation of $300 funds an entire mini-conference, with 5-8 poets reading works related to a specific theme, all available for free on the CPC website. We sponsored three such events in 2022 and 2023, each organized by a CPC poet.

1. Colorado Asians: A Poetry Event, led by art curator Jane Burke, held in conjunction with the Colorado Asian art exhibit at the Artworks Center for Contemporary Art in Loveland.
2. Remembrance of the Holocaust, led by Judyth Hill.
3. LGBTQ+ Poetry Reading, led by Serena Chopra.

Your donation of $75 funds a first-place poetry award for a high school student at Greeley West. $50 funds a second-place award. 43 students taught by 10 teachers submitted poems in 2024 and 14 students won awards. We have awarded over forty poetry awards to high school students in Colorado since 2000.

Poetry makes a difference in the lives of so many people.  We need to support emerging and existing poets so that poetry can be written.