POETRY READING: Live at the SteamPlant Plaza in the artsy little mountain town of Salida, CO. 630 PM, Friday 8/12. Cash bar. With Wendy Videlock and Uche Ogbuji. POETRY READING: Excited to once again be reading (and hanging out) with … Continue reading
Prose Berkshire Review, “Nymphs” bosque magazine, “Why do you imagine golden birds?” Confrontation, “Hangfire” DoveTales, “Hangfire” (reprinted) Cimarron Review, “White Lilac” Cooweescoowee, “Volunteers” The Exeter Bulletin, “Heartshot” (essay) The G.W. Review, “In Garnet Canyon” OVERHEARD, “She Said, He Said” (flash … Continue reading
Finally! Just squeaking by before the end of the first quarter… here’s my list of the best books I came across LAST year. As always, this list has nothing to do with release dates. Honestly, I was a little disappointed … Continue reading
“The taboos against expressing our anger are so powerful…. When a woman shows her anger, she is likely to be dismissed as irrational or worse. At a professional conference I attended recently, a young doctor presented a paper about battered … Continue reading
Claudia Putnam is a writer living in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley. She’s too busy finishing a novel to blog, but you are welcome to scan the greatest hits below. Her poetry and fiction can be found in dozens of literary magazines; … Continue reading
Where I live now, on Colorado’s Western Slope, towns are strung out along the confluence of two rivers, the Roaring Fork and the Colorado. Those who live “upvalley” live southward along the Roaring Fork, and generally speaking, the richer they … Continue reading
This year I had more time to read than usual and so I have a lot to say. Again, I’m listing the books that popped for me of those I read in 2012; they may or may not have been … Continue reading
Some years ago I took a master class with the poet Marvin Bell. I’d been galvanized by an interview I read in American Poetry Review. The interview (not linked) was accompanied by a selection of Bell’s Resurrected Dead Man poems. … Continue reading
I just came back from visiting my son, now 21. As I think about my next steps in the world—I’ve moved into my third rental space in less than two years—it seems like a good time to post this draft … Continue reading
I’m moving on again. I’ve had to do this a few times in the past couple of years. Like a lot of people, we’re finding that the jobs we want or can get are not necessarily where we were living, … Continue reading
Claudia Putnam 