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    Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Inauguration

    Presented by Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Project at PPLD - Penrose Library

    April 24, 2010


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    Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Inauguration

    Join us as we inaugurate the second-ever Poet Laureate for the Pikes Peak region. We will also bid a fond farewell to Aaron Anstett, who has served as the Poet Laureate for 2008-2010.

    The Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Project has selected Jim Ciletti to serve as the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate for 2010-2012.
    Ciletti. Jim was selected as the 2010-2012 Pikes Peak Poet Laureate because of the success of his own work, his long history of...

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    Join us as we inaugurate the second-ever Poet Laureate for the Pikes Peak region. We will also bid a fond farewell to Aaron Anstett, who has served as the Poet Laureate for 2008-2010.

    The Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Project has selected Jim Ciletti to serve as the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate for 2010-2012.
    Ciletti. Jim was selected as the 2010-2012 Pikes Peak Poet Laureate because of the success of his own work, his long history of service in bringing poetry to our community, his energy and passion, and his vision for projects and activities that will inspire and celebrate in the Pikes Peak region for the next two years.

    Ciletti follows poet Aaron Anstett, who was chosen as the inaugural Pikes Peak Poet Laureate. One of Anstett's projects as Poet Laureate in 2008-2010 included two editions of "Poetry While You Wait," a collection of poetry penned by residents of the Pikes Peak region.Ciletti will serve a two-year term and take his work to business gatherings, college campuses, K-12 schools, community centers, and more in El Paso and Teller counties. The Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Project will also connect other regional poets with community groups and schools for special events.

    Ciletti has been the poet-in-residence at the Orme School Fine Arts Festival in Mayer, Arizona for 40 years, and he teaches ongoing creative writing workshops at Fremont Correctional Facility. Recent publications include Old Pickup Trucks on Taos Streets and Sky for the forthcoming issue of EDGZ; Why I Love My Brother, the opening chapter of Jim's novel in progress, published in the Winter 2009 issue of Passager, Issue #47; and poems selected by Dona Stein for her Radio Show Poetry Anthology, due out in May. He has also published two books of poems: Sunfire (2007) and At The Crack Of Dawn (2002).


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    PPLD - Penrose Library

    20 N. Cascade Ave.
    Colorado Springs, CO 80903

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    • Event Name: Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Inauguration
      5 out of 5 stars rating "Thank You, Jim"
      Review posted by: Orme School of Arizona from Mayer, AZ, Apr 26, 2010

      Our heartfelt congratulations go out to Jim Ciletti, as your Poet Laureate. Jim has been teaching, motivating, and inspiring our students for 42 years, during our annual week of Fine Arts at Orme... Expand

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