It is that time again. Naropa Summer Writing Program time. Dozens of amazing artists will descend upon Boulder over the next month to teach workshops and perform. This week Naropa welcomes Charles Alexander, Rebecca Brown, Brenda Coultas, Steve Dickison, E. Tracy Grinnell, HR Hegnauer, David Henderson, Lisa Jarnot, Dawn Lundy Martin, Cynthia Miller, Prageeta Sharma, Eleni Sikelianos, Stacy Szymaszek, Steven Taylor, & Magdalena Zurawski. Amazing. Faculty readings are Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday nights at 7:30. See the full schedule here.

On Friday, June 15th, Feng Sun Chen, Tina Brown Celona & Sommer Browning will read from their recent work at Innisfree at 7pm in Boulder.

Feng wrote Butcher’s Tree, out with Black Ocean earlier this year. Tina has two collections with Fence, Snip! Snip! and the real moon of poetry and other poems. And last year, Sommer’s Either Way I’m Celebrating came out with Birds, LLC.

Elisa Gabbert, John Cotter, and many others are reading for the Lighthouse Writers Workshop LitFest Book Fair Friday and Saturday. Gabbert will reading from her book of poems, The French Exit, on Friday at 1:30pm and Cotter will read from his novel, Under the Small Lights, on Saturday at 1pm. Check out the full schedule here.

–Sommer Browning