Earth Day Speakers
EARTh Day Evening Speakers
Colorado Poet Laureate Mary Crow
Pushcart Prize-winning poet, Richard Tayson
With African Drumming by Falé
7:00 PM - University Center Panorama Room
Free Admission - Tickets are required
To obtain tickets go to the Barnes & Noble Ticket Outlet at the University Center or call 351-4TIX or go to the online ticketing website at www.unco.edu/tickets (a surcharge may apply to tickets obtained online).
- Pre-sale tickets will close at 3 PM on Tuesday April 22nd.
- Tickets available at the door based on availability of seats only
- Ticket holders must be seated by 7:15 PM. All seats not filled will be released at 7:15 to the general public.
Fale traditional West African Drumming 
Falé will perform prior to the evening speakers from 7 PM - 7:30 PM in the Panorama room at the University Center. Falé means “bridge” in the Susu language of Guinea (Yankadi, Guinee Fare, Djole, etc). This bridge helps to bring all walks of people together. Its foundation is built upon respect and value for traditional African culture. The bridge of community is sustained and enriched by everyone who shares, studies, and celebrates this rich culture.
Mary Crow, colorado Poet Laureate
Mary Crow has published five collections of poetry and four translations of poetry. Her most recent book of poems is the chapbook The High Cost of Living (Pudding House, 2002). Her poems and translations have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines, including American Poetry Review, New Letters, Nimrod, Agni, Ploughshares, Prarie Schooner, and Manoa. Among awards she has won are a Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, A Poetry Fellowship from the Colorado Council on the Arts, and three Fullbright awards. She has read her poems in Israel and the former Yugoslavia. Poet Laureate of Colorado, she taught creative writing at Colorado State University for many years. She serves as Poet Laureate of Colorado.
Richard Tayson, Pushcart Prize-winning poet
Richard Tayson's poems, essays and reviews have appeared in more than 50 books, anthologies, journals and magazines in the United States, Germany, England and Canada. Richard Tayson¹s second book of poetry, The World Underneath (Kent State
University Press, 2008) concerns birth, motherhood and explorations of human
interconnections in a world scarred by war, environmental crisis, and
violence. His first book, The Apprentice of Fever (Kent State University
Press, 1998) won the Wick Poetry Prize. Tayson's other awards include a New
York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Prairie Schooner's Edward Stanley
Award, and a Pushcart Prize. His poems, articles and reviews appear in over
fifty publications in five countries, including the Paris Review; Virginia
Quarterly Review; Kenyon Review; The Advocate; American Poetry: The Next
Generation; Best of Prairie Schooner; and Reader¹s Digest¹s Today¹s Best
Nonfiction. His book of non-fiction, Look Up for Yes (Viking-Penguin, 1998)
became a bestseller in Germany. Tayson was recently featured on the Moe
Green Poetry Hour and has taught at Rutgers University, City University of
New York, and The New School. He lives in New York City.
Photo credit: Star Black