Father’s Day is a celebration honoring, well, fathers. The holiday also tributes fatherhood in general, paternal bonds, and the influence of dads in society macro, or in this case micro – read Kierstin Bridger's tight-knit family trio. Making Hay Cottonwood seeds blow in today white tufts against Colorado...
Tick tock. It is very nearly time to celebrate Mother’s Day, which is Sunday, May 14. (Although we should celebrate moms everyday.) It is also a day all mom’s who are mindful are reminded of time passing; little hearts growing, then scattering: Where are you going, my little one, little one, Where...
"How does the ordinary person come to an experience of the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It...
Things that go bump on the mountain, well, who in Telluride doesn’t like moguls? Things that go bump in the night? Also a familiar, though perhaps less welcomed occurrence in town, where ghosts are known to haunt some of our favorite haunts: the New Sheridan...
Editor’s Note: Kierstin Bridger is the 2011 winner of Telluride Arts’ Mark Fischer Poetry Prize and a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. Possibly the edgiest member of our family of fabulous writers/poets, including Word Woman Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and “Feelosophy” major David Feela, Kierstin surprised us...
Popular celebrations of Valentine's Day gained traction in the late 17th century, but not until 100 years ago did most Europeans and Americans begin to agree that a long-term relationships (in those days, marriage) should be based on love and young people should freely choose...
"How does the ordinary person come to an experience of the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It...
What would you feed me, what complements the sweet amber whiskey you pour on my tomb? Remember me with persimmons, pomegranates, ripe amorous figs. Cut through a rare skirt-steak ancho-rubbed, sealed with oils of poblano and olive. Paint my skull rich turquoise like the deepest part of the Colorado River, flowers of...
Editor’s note: Kierstin Bridger, a winner of Telluride Arts’ Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, is a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. She is nothing if not arch and, like painter Edward Hopper, a keen observer of our solitude, for better or for worse, always pregnant...
Editor’s note: Kierstin Bridger, the 2011 winner of Telluride Arts’ Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, is a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out and a member of our wonderful family of writers, among them, Word Woman Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, “Feelosophy” major David Feela, county commissioner...
