Rothman (Crested Butte, CO: Conundrum Press, 1998). This poem has been widely performed, annually at the Headwaters Conference at Western State Colorado University, and was first published in The Geography of Hope: Poets of Colorado’s Western Slope ed. The only straight lines in the headwaters Pacific Rim combers in a Salt Point storm slamming down fists Toad kachina grotto vision on Nuvatik-ya-oviīig Sur hot spring crotch-of-the-redwood full moon pool Uncompahgre's Tabeguache pine scratched by bear Rio Grande cliff shelf narrowing to goat hold It's Mancos shale wild strawberry avalanche chuteĬrouching for shelter from Shandoka's lightning & iceĬlambering hands & knees up Lone Cone scree It's slickrock deer trail thick with juniper Hitchhiking on the highway to Crested Butte This poem has been widely performed and was first published in a chapbook co-authored with Judyth Hill, Altar of the Ordinary (Farmington, NM: Yoo Hoo Press, 1993). Muskeg carnivorous with quivering insects No quick exit out this maze of Sitka spruce & the ultimate terror of Ursus horribilis Prepared around each bend for some dark hulk ![]() Piles of gutted humpies, half-chewed, fins still twitching & come upon brown steaming mounds of berry scat Goodtimes never apologized for his politics that were, by his own admission, outside the local mainstream. He served for decades as the only Green Party elected official in the state. Seeing Bearįrom the mud-flat sloughs of Mitkof Island Art Goodtimes is a legend in western Colorado. I sucked the blood of my mother's cigarettesįirst comfort found in hugging the materialĪs later in times of stress I would grab hold To find the smiling response before the third month of life."Ī Psychoanalytic Study of Normal and Deviant There can be no awareness or conscious experience. "I follow Freud's opinion that at birth there is no consciousness, accordingly, This poem has been widely performed, and has appeared in the Montrose Mirror, the Four Corners Free Press and the Telluride Watch. Janice Hays and Pamela Haines (Colorado Springs: Sudden Jungle Press, 1986).Ĭopyright 13018 Art Goodtimes After Li Po This poem was first published in the anthology Wingbone: Poetry From Colorado, eds. On the bed of Greenbank’s battered pickup Secret organs slide steaming into full moonlight ![]() “There’s a whole lot of life in these animals” His most recent book is Looking South to Lone Cone: the Cloud Acre Poems (Sedona, AZ: Western Eye Press, 2013). Put on white slacks and walkĭance till you sweat to “The River of Babylon.Art Goodtimes of Norwood won a Colorado Council on the Arts poetry fellowship 29 years ago and served two years as Western Slope Poet Laureate. Watch the backdrop of clouds darken, wince at lightning.īut a pass to the local pool. Go to the Rainbow Dance at Santa Clara and loveĬhildren holding painted rainbows in their hands. The Grateful Dead, or Ella Fitzgerald to your lawn.Įxamine the sky for sky-looms, where rainĭevise a theory about rain. This is the first time Joan and Art have read together since the first Talking Gourds Poetry Festival in Telluride in 1989. His latest book is Dancing on Edge (Lithic Press, Fruita, 2019). ![]() ![]() He served as Colorado’s Western Slope Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2013, and in 2020 was awarded the Chamberlain Award for lifetime achievement in Colorado poetry at the Mountain Words Literary Festival in Crested Butte. He is co-director of Talking Gourds, a Telluride Institute poetry program. Art hosts the Union of Mountain Poets on Facebook, co-edits the online anthology and is national poetry editor for Fungi magazine. Art Goodtimes was poetry editor for Earth First! Journal and Mountain Gazette before getting elected five terms as a Green County Commissioner in Southwestern Colorado.
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