This Weekend

The Narrow Gauge Book Cooperative is excited to welcome Erica Reid, the Artist-in-Residence in the Visual Arts, Music & Theater Program at Adams State University on October 14th at 6 PM. 

Erica Reid is the author of Ghost Man on Second, winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize (Autumn House Press). Erica’s poems appear in Rattle, Cherry Tree, Colorado Review, and more, and she is the recipient of a 2025 Pushcart Prize. 
We’re lucky to have Erica Reid in the San Luis Valley as an artist in residence at Adams State University. She’s stepping away from the campus to offer a free writing workshop at the Narrow Gauge Book Cooperative.

The poetry workshop,  Orchids, Orchids, Orchids: Repetition as Revolution will be guided by poems from Kaveh Akbar, Wendy Videlock, A. E. Stallings, Danez Smith, and more. This class examines the ways that the repetition of a single word can have a cumulative and explosive effect on a poem. 

Please RSVP on our website, and come prepared with your own writing materials – paper and pen/pencil will be best.

Following from 7 PM – 8:30 PM will be an Reading and Open Mic with Erica Read

She will perform her poetry and host an open mic. If you’d like to perform, arrive at 7:00pm to sign up, and the reading will begin at 7:15. 
Also, check out her poetry workshop, happening before the reading!