Workshops & Presentations
Does your organization need a dynamic speaker? Are you looking for a top-notch writing workshop in poetry, fiction, personal essay, or enhancing creativity? Here are some of the topics Chris has presented to writing groups, book groups, professional organizations, educators, and others; a complete list is available upon request, along with a fee schedule for 90-minute, half-day, and full day sessions.
Topics include:
- The 16th Way: A Poet in the Community
- Journal Mining
- 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
- 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
- Northern Colorado Writers Conference; Keynote
- 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