![]() In 2011, she received the Literary Excellence Award in Poetry from the Pikes Peak Arts Council. Among other honors, she has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ford Foundation. She is also the co-editor, with Dean Rader, of Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry. Gould’s collections of published work include Doubters and Dreamers (a finalist for the Colorado Book Award for and the Binghamton University Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award), Earthquake Weather, Alphabet, and Beneath My Heart. The reception is free and open to the public. Cascade Avenue in downtown Colorado Springs. ![]() Gould will take place on Sunday, April 27, at 2:00PM, in the Carnegie Room of Penrose Library at 20 N. She will succeed Price Strobridge, who served as Pikes Peak Poet Laureate from 2012-2014.Ī reception to inaugurate Ms. ![]() ![]() “I’m honored, very pleased, and looking forward to becoming the next ambassador for poetry in our community,” said Ms. Gould is an associate professor in Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, where she developed and directs the concentration in Native American Studies. On behalf of the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Project selection committee and program organizers, the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region (COPPeR) is pleased to announce that Janice Gould has been selected as the 2014-2016 Pikes Peak Poet Laureate. ![]()
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