Does your organization need a dynamic speaker? He’s available for workshops in poetry, fiction, and personal essay. Here are some of the topics Chris has presented to writing groups, book groups, professional organizations, educators, and others.
Topics include:
- The 16th Way: A Poet in the Community
- Art & Violence
- Hidden Things: Finding New Poems
- Epicure's Garden: A Writer's Paradise
- Guerilla Poetry
- On Being a Word Thief
- Breathing Life Into Characters
- A Great Spring: Renew Yourself
- Becoming a Good Host: Imagination as a Guest
- Beating on Words
- Becoming a Sensuist
- Humor, Wit, & Challenge
- Verse Libre
- Literature of the Wild
- Ostranenie: Making the Familiar Strange
- Dirt & Ink: Thoughts on Kunitz and The Wild Braid
- Teaching With Attitude
- PoemBoy vs. The Media Gorgon: Literature’s 21st Century Challenge
- Ten Practical Ways to Make Kids Love Books
- Fiction FAQs
Recent Activities & Events
Castle Rock Writers Conference
Grand Lake Retreat, Lighthouse Writers
Denver Poets Day
Poemboy vs. The Media Gorgon, Douglas Country Libraries
- Poetry Master Class Faculty, Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Wyoming Library Association Annual Conference, Gillette WY; keynote speaker
- 15 Ways of Being a Poet: University of Denver Enrichment Program
River City Writers Series, Sacramento CA; visiting author
- Art & Violence and Becoming a Sensuist; literary salons as part of Writing the City: An Urban Literary Festival
- Denver Poet Laureate; appointed March 2006 by Mayor John Hickenlooper
- Fiction FAQs”; seminar presentation for Colorado Authors League