| October 20, 2003Pike's Peak's Philosophic Burro / Eugene Field October 27, 2003In the Rockies / Edith Colby Banfield November 3, 2003Just Like Colorado / James Barton Adams November 10, 2003Cherry Creek Emigrants' Song / Anonymous November 17, 2003Bacon / Badger Clark November 24, 2003America the Beautiful / Katharine Lee Bates December 8, 2003Creede / Cy Warman December 15, 2003The Rise and Fall of Creede / Cy Warman December 22, 2003Christmas in the Miner's Cabin / Harriet L. Wason December 29, 2003Colorado Snow-birds / Helen Hunt Jackson January 5, 2004Winter in Colorado / Eugene Field January 12, 2004The Message of the Tree / Alice Polk Hill January 19, 2004A Cowboy at the Carnival / Anonymous January 26, 2004ears popping over la veta pass / Tony Moffeit February 2, 2004A Colorado Girl / Cy Warman February 16, 2004Our Colorado Girl / James Barton Adams February 23, 2004A Cowgirl's Sweet Confession / James Barton Adams Colorado's Past Poet Laureates March 1, 2004Preface--Tales of the Colorado Pioneers / Alice Polk Hill March 8, 2004Drought and The Coming Rain / Nellie Burget Miller March 15, 2004The Woman in the Wagon / Clyde Robertson March 22, 2004Air Force Academy / Milford E. Shields March 29, 2004Autumn Beckons the Ice Cutter / Thomas Hornsby Ferril National Poetry Month-April 2004: Vintage Poems / Contemporary Poets April 5, 2004The Morning of the Morning / Mary Crow, Colorado Poet Laureate April 12, 2004Head On, Off & Still Running / Art Goodtimes April 19, 2004Me, Crow, Fish, and the Magi / Linda Hogan April 26, 2004Sod Huts on the Plains near Aurora, Colorado / Reg Saner May 17, 2004The Market Train / Arthur Chapman May 31, 2004A Colorado Horse on the Battle Field / Jean Milne Gower June 7, 2004Courtship / Harriet L. Wason June 14, 2004Ute Pass / J. Ernest Whitney June 21, 2004Getting the Newspaper from the Lawn / Jim Ciletti June 28 & July 5, 2004Where the Columbines Grow / Arthur J. Fynn July 12, 2004The Yucca / Virginia Donaghe McClurg July 19, 2004Mariposa Lilies / Edith Colby Banfield July 26, 2004No Flies on Colorado / James Barton Adams August 2, 2004Estrella Mountains & Junkyard / Janet Kenning August 9, 2004Where the Wild Flowers Catch the Dew / Cy Warman August 16, 2004Charming Again / Sandra McNew August 23, 2004Death of the Cow-Boy / Eugene Field August 30, 2004Anasazi, the First Coloradans / Reg Saner September 6, 2004Spirit That Form'd This Scene / Walt Whitman September 13 & 20, 2004From a Coyote Primer / Thomas Hornsby Ferril 2 Laureates / 2 Poems September 27, 2004Round / Mary Crow, Colorado poet laureate September 27, 2004Visiting Mountains / Ted Kooser, U.S. poet laureate October 4, 2004Towards Denver City / Lawrence N. Greenleaf October 11, 2004Painted Pods / Jean Milne Gower --First Anniversary Poem-- October 18, 2004Pikes Peak Obscured / Steven D. Schroeder October 25, 2004Discretion / Carol Lawrence Dier November 1, 2004Colorado, On the Adoption of Equal Suffrage / Anna Pritchard November 8, 2004The Bunkhouse / Arthur Chapman November 15 & 22, 2004A Miner's Thanksgiving / Rufus L. Porter November 29 & December 6, 2004The 13th / Abelardo "Lalo" Delgado December 13 & 20, 2004Straw Barn / Jane Morton December 27, 2004Where Does It Go? / Charles Edwin Hewes January 3, 2005Diary of a Country Gentleman / Gertrude McDaniel January 10, 2005The Fields in Winter / Lisbeth Fish January 17, 2005Las Ventanas Azules / Millicent H. Velhagen January 24, 2005Tiny Town / Nellie Foster Seibert January 31, 2005A Bachelor's Reverie at the "Peak" / Job Straight February 21, 2005Passing By / Nellie Burget Miller February 28, 2005Out Where the West Begins / Arthur Chapman March 7, 2005A Tale of the Indian Massacre at Pueblo, in 1854 / T. O. Bigney March 14, 2005A Month with the Muses / T. O. Bigney March 21, 2005Spring Fever / Jamie Sexton Holme March 28, 2005Wildcat Ledge / Lilian White Spencer National Poetry Month -- April 2005 April 4, 2005The Writing on the Wall / Bill Tremblay April 11, 2005Flagstaff Mountain / Tom (WordWulf) SternerHowe April 18, 2005Return to the West / Alan Swallow April 25, 2005On the Colorado River & The Old Laws of Recurrence / Mary Crow May 2, 2005 A Cowboy's Prayer / Badger Clark May 9, 2005To a Sentinel Marmot / Steven D. Schroeder May 23, 2005They Tell Us Peace Has Come / Charles N. Sellers May 30, 2005No Mark / Thomas Hornsby Ferril Archives, continued (please click) |
| Vintage Colorado Poetry Archives |
| Regional poetry seeks to illuminate places, people, and local ways. The poets you'll read here write with varying degrees of skill, sentimentality, high or low art, but all create vivid "word pictures" of Colorado, the West, and lives lived. |
| Guidelines & Permissions Poems first published prior to 1923 are in the public domain. The editorial policy of Vintage Colorado Poetry is to attain reprint permission for poems 1923 and after as the rule. Lawful exceptions are few. Fair usage is the most known, the longest-standing, and the most practiced exception. Also, the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 does allow Vintage Colorado Poetry to reproduce for scholarly intents poems entering the last twenty years of extended copyright protection: 1923 - 1929, presently. Vintage Colorado Poetry has found it difficult, if not impossible, to track descendants of many lesser known poets. In such cases, Vintage Colorado Poetry invokes fair use. Descendants and others concerned are asked to contact Vintage Colorado Poetry. Copyright (c) 2003-2008, Vintage Colorado Poetry |
| Editor's Corner I'm not a practicing poet. My background includes editing two anthologies, Where Past Meets Present: Modern Colorado Short Stories, 1994, and Vintage Colorado Short Stories, 1997, University Press of Colorado. |
| James B. Hemesath, Editor jbhemesath@q.com |
| Poem of the Month January 2008 Other Men's Dogs / Addie Cropsey Hudson |