Student/Faculty Reading & Visiting Writers' Series: Poet Laureate Ashley Cornelius

Pikes Peak State College’s Visiting Writers Series is honored to welcome spoken word artist Ashley Cornelius, the 6th Pikes Peak Region Poet Laureate.

Free and open to the public
Non-perishable donations for the PPSC food pantry are welcome.

Contact brook.bhagat@pikespeak.edu for more information or if you would like to read your work.

About Ashley Cornelius:
Her poetry has been featured at TEDx Colorado Springs, the Colorado Springs Women’s March, Denver Public Library, and Colorado Nonprofit Association, as well as on many stages. Additionally, she was the 2018 Women of the World Poetry Slam Colorado Springs representative and competed nationally. A winner of multiple poetry Slams in Colorado Springs, Cornelius is the Co-Director of Poetry 719, a poetry group lifting the voices of marginalized communities and BIPOC folks through poetry. She is sought after across the nation for speaking engagements and facilitating poetry workshops.