Meet Your Poets Laureate

IN THIS ECONOMY, FORT COLLINS POET LAUREATES WORK FOR YOU  Have you met the new Poet Laureates of Fort Collins, Colorado? Did you even know there was such a thing? How might the two of us work together? What does a Poet Laureate even do? Should we write commissioned works to honor our city? Should we hold programming and workshops for the community? Should we apply to big grants from foundations with lots of money or should we just try to keep things chill?  Come to Wolverine Farm, Saturday, July 11, 2026 from 4:00 to 5:30 pm to meet the new Fort Collins Poet Laureates–Erica Reid and Jake Friedman. We’ll share a little bit of our own work–less as an indulgence or an excuse to hear ourselves read than a kind of honor, we think, a way for you to get to know us better, an offering– and talk about how we came to and view the position. Then, we’ll open the conversation up to the room to see what you think. If you have any questions, find us on social media. If you can’t make it, send… View Source