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   The Poets' Co-op hosts an Open Reading the First Thursday of every month each Spring & Fall. The readings are held in the artistic splendor of the Loveland Museum from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. The Loveland Museum is located at 503 N. Lincoln Avenue (corner of Fifth & Lincoln in beautiful Downtown Loveland). (If our "ticker" did not automatically pop up to give you the latest information concerning the next open reading, click here). Click to read about all of our 2009 Fall Series Poets. (You can also still read about the 2005 Fall Series poets, 2006 Spring Series poets, 2006 Fall Series Poets, 2007 Spring Series poets, 2007 Fall Series Poets, 2008 Spring Series Poets, 2008 Fall Series Poets or 2009 Spring Series Poets as well.)

   Readers & listeners embrace all styles of original poetry and range in experience from first time readers to published and polished professionals.  Participants have ranged in age from 8 to 80.  A common love for the muse creates a nurturing community for readers and listeners.

   These readings include a new poetic challenge each month, and showcase a different featured reader. (You can check our virtual coffee house for the latest Poetic Challenge Phrase and even post your own Challenge Poem there.) Readings are hosted by M. D. Friedman. Complimentary snacks will be graciously provided by HENRY'S PUB (234 E. 4th St.).

   Readings often offer poets an opportunity to record their performance for posting on our web site. (All recorded sound files are in MP3 format). Some of these are big files so if you are on a phone line, it is best to save them to your hard drive first, and then open them in your MP3 player software . (Don't forget to also visit the special studio recorded selections at www.mp3poetry.com featuring many internet poets from around the world. These include several experimental spoken word MP3's as well as several more with musical backing recorded at Mad Dog Music Studio. )

   We also host live TV poetry readings on the first Sunday of each month from 7:00 - 7:30 pm in partnership with Boulder County Comcast Cable Channel 54 and the Cannon Mine Coffee Shop.  The Poet's Co-op TV Show features both Colorado and National Poets with an emphasis on performance poetry. You can download or watch I-Pod ready video excerpts from these shows or the full half hour program for free at www.videopoetry.org.

  Please contact our host and event coordinator, M. D. Friedman, if you are interested in becoming a featured poet at one of our readings.  

   Be sure to check out our Special Tribute in honor of Gene Hoffman & our Top Ten Downloads at the bottom of this page.

(Archived recordings of our past open readings are posted alphabetically both by the poem's title & by the poet's first name)

NEW excerpts from our last reading series. (Click to subscribe to this podcast and/or put into I-Tunes.):

Recordings from our March 5, 2009, reading featuring Matthew Cooperman.

1. Grass Roots by Jared Smith
2. Entertainment Tonight by Dwight Loeschner
3. Cyber Love by Dwight Loeschner
4. Letters on Leaves by Dwight Loeschner
5. Night at the Fort by Dwight Loeschner
6. Picket Wire Atonement by Mike Adams
7. Suite from Steel Valley by Mike Adams
8. Fear of Deadlines by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers
9. Ignoring History by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers
10. I Wait in Judgement by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers
11. Strip Poetry by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers
12. Sensory Overload (#2v2) by Paul Gutierrez
13. In This Life by Mark Rosoff
14. Talking About Gravity by Mark Rosoff
15. After the Killing Frost by Gordon Holladay
16. The Milk Carton by Diana L. Royce
17. Some Haiku by Deborah Russell
18. My Machine-Not Ready For Prime Time by Deborah Russell
19. Sky God by Deborah Russell
20. You Make Coffee by Deborah Russell
21. Leafy Green Fist by Nahshon Cook
22. About a Lepper... by Nahshon Cook
23. Easy by Robert King
24. Cliches for Love by Robert King
25. How to Recover from an Appendectomy by Morris
26. Figure in Ground by Morris
27. What To Do... by Nick
28. My Friend Phil by Kit
29. Guest Reading of a Set of His Own Poems by featured reader, Matthew Cooperman

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Recordings from our April 2, 2009, reading featuring Peter Neil Carroll.

1. Nothing by Mark Rosoff
2. Drowning by Jonah Torn
3. Lacking Cessation of Crossing Senses by Jonah Torn
4. Gabriel Holmes by Katherine West
5. The Volcanic Sky Has Cooled by Katherine West
6. The Fox Took the Sidewalk by Diana L. Royce
7. Not One Homogenous by Jared Smith
8. This Poem by Jared Smith
9. Dancers by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers
10. Vienna by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers
11. How You Gonna Look Inside by Edward Wells II
12. She Looks at Me... by Kit
13. Guest Reading of a Set of His Own Poems by Peter Neil Carroll
14. Gravity and Its Opposite, Comedy by Jared Smith
15. Tubby Fredrick by Jonah Torn
16. Our Figures of Speech by Deborah Russell
17. You Were In My Dream In Stockholm by Mark Rosoff
18. I Don't Get You Poets... by Kit
19. Fifteen Minutes by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers
20. Who Am I by Diana L. Royce

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Recordings from our May 7, 2009, reading featuring Peter Neil Carroll.

1. So Far from Flowers by Katherine West with the Mariamne Engle Friedman reading the second voice
2. Midnight Musings by Maggie Rowlett
3. If Jazz by Mark Rosoff
4. She Has a Mortgage on My Body and a Lien on My Soul by M. D. Friedman
5. I Wish Now by M. D. Friedman
6. Touches by Deborah Russell
7. Human and Intimate by Deborah Russell
8. Train Helps Us Unwind by Leo Goya
9. A Jam of Words in the Round by Leo Goya
10. I Hate New York Parts1&2 by Leo Goya
11. I Am Still Flirting with Distration by Leo Goya
12. Because I Am a Man of the World by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers
13. Sun King by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers
14. The East Winds Are Unsettling Here by Jared Smith
15. In Epiphany by Jared Smith
16. The Garden of Eden Under the Wilson Avenue L Tracks by Ray Foreman
17. Strange Horses by Ray Foreman
18. The Shamen Said by Pat Maslowski
19. Learning to Live with the Invisible by Pat Maslowski
20. Molly McGee by Pat Maslowski
21. It Isn't Good to Spend Too Much Time in the Past by Gordon Holladay
22. Another Gentle Rain by Gordon Holladay
23. For China by Diana L. Royce
24. Guest Reading of a Set of Their Own Poems by 3 Guys from Albany
25. The Continent Never Ends by Diana L. Royce
26. The Continent Never Ends by Gordon Holladay
27. Unopen Doors by Deborah Russell
28. The Continent Never Ends by Mark Rosoff
29. The Continent Ends by M. D. Friedman
30. Terse Verse by Leo Goya
31. The Continent Never Ends by Pat Maslowski

   The following are the current top ten downloaded poetry mp3's from the Poets' Co-op's vast collection of over 700 free mp3's at www.mp3poetry.com. (The total number of downloads during the first half of 2009 is listed after each.):

1. Against My Will by M. D. Friedman (1091 downloads)
2. Focus by Fred Wagela (with 839 downloads)
3. Slow Blues in A What by M. D. Friedman (760 downloads)
4. Wild Womans Beat by Sher Christian with John Christian's original music (608 downloads)
5. Guest Reading of a Set of His Own Poems by SETH (561 downloads)
6. The Question by Diana L. Royce (555 downloads)
7. I Am What I Am (with Katherine West reading the second voice) by John Blair (533 downloads)
8. God Father by Fred Wagela (528downloads)
9. A Computer Fantasy by Caroline Orman (504downloads)
10. I Met Her at a Poetry Reading by Ray Foreman (492downloads)

 

1. Found at Exhibit of Found Art by M. D. Friedman (See photos of Gene Hoffman's St. George in Aluminum, Rusted Metal & Car Reflectors, Gene Hoffman's
   Winged Tiki & Gene Hoffman's Kachina ).
2. Two Poems for Gene Hoffman by Gordon Holladay
3. Icarus Triptych in Rusted Metal & Aluminum by M. D. Friedman (See a photo of Gene Hoffman's Icarus Triptych in Rusted Metal & Aluminum).
4. Two Poems inspired by the art of Gene Hoffman by Mariamne Engle recorded live on Dona Stein's Poetry Show . (See photos of Gene Hoffman's On Thoreau & Gene Hoffman's The Trophy ).

 

    Our first CD featuring live readings from the Java Lounge is available at our Online Store. (This CD is a compellation of live readings recorded at the old Java Lounge Open Readings and experimental studio recordings recorded at the Mad Dog Music Studio. This is our first CD release and represents a wide range of poetic styles typical of a night at one of our Open Readings. Proceeds from the purchase of theCD will be used to produce new CD's.)