Literary Living Room: feat. Jill Burkey

Name: Literary Living Room: feat. Jill Burkey
Start: 2024-11-07T20:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-11-07T22:30:00-06:00
Location: 604 Clinton St, Ridgway, CO, United States, Colorado 81432

Schedule

Thu Nov 07 2024 at 08:00 pm to 10:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

604 Clinton St, Ridgway, CO, United States, Colorado 81432 | Ridgway, CO

Literary Living Room Feat: Jill Burkey
Date: Thursday, November 7th
Ridgway’s Sherbino Theater
Doors: 7 || Show: 7:30 || $10
Part literary reading, part author interview, part open mic…Literary Living Room is the Sherbino’s dynamic year-round series featuring regional and national literary artists of all persuasions. This month we’re excited to bring you decorated writer & poet, Jill Burkey.
BIO:
Jill Burkey’s work won the Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, the Denver Woman’s Press Club Unknown Writers’ Contest, and others. Her poems, which have been called “warm, complex, and intensely satisfying” have appeared in Deep Wild Journal, Front Range Review, Grand Valley Magazine, IMPROV Anthology of Colorado Poets, Paddlefish, Pilgrimage Magazine, Plainsongs, Sixfold, Soundings Review, The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, in downtown Grand Junction’s “Poetry in the Streets” project, and aired on KAFM 88.1 community radio. Two of her poems were included in The Untidy Season: An Anthology of Nebraska Women Poets by Backwaters Press, which received the Nebraska Book Award for anthology. The Two Hearts Inside Us is her first book. She’s busy working on more poetry as well as several creative nonfiction projects.
Jill worked several years as a writer-in-residence in the Writers in the Schools (WITS) program sponsored by Colorado Humanities and the Western Colorado Writers’ Forum, of which she is a former board member. During that time, Jill taught hundreds of elementary and high school students during nine-week residencies, each of which culminated in the production of an anthology of student work, which she edited and helped produce. Jill also helped her students publish their poems in The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, Grand Valley Magazine, and Colorado Life Magazine. Two of Jill’s students were named national finalists in the River of Words Poetry and Art Contest.
Jill grew up on a three-generation cattle ranch in western Nebraska (only miles from the homestead where author Mari Sandoz once lived) and attended a one-room schoolhouse through the 4th grade. She currently lives on the Western Slope of Colorado where she serves as president of her family’s business.