UPDATED: I originally wrote the short blog post below in Nov. 2022. This update highlights the embedded audio players, so the resulting We Are Chaffee: Looking Upstream podcast conversation I had with Beck Cerón, as mentioned in the post below, is available here. I’ve also included the player for Part Read more…
Soon enough, or maybe not soon enough, Ocean Vuong will be centered in the occasional series I keep, “A Poet Was There.” I need time to read more, digest more, breathe. In the past several years, the name Ocean Vuong has seeped into my mind here and there. It was Read more…
On a breezy stroll through the campus of the University of Colorado – Colorado Springs (UCCS), Dr. Tre Wentling talks about history, language and politics of identity. An assistant professor in Women’s and Ethics Studies at UCCS, Tre also was a student there for his undergraduate and Master’s work in Read more…
Humanitou hosted a pop-up event during Arts Month as part of ArtPOP, a local-arts series supported by the Pikes Peak Arts Council and the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region. Participants shared stories and were photographed during 30-minute sessions. The conversation below is one of seven in the Humanitou Read more…
After helping Nico Wilkinson feed sunflower seeds to the two resident goats of the Quaill Club in Colorado Springs, we sat down with a lot to talk about. Nico, 25, works as a community organizer, poet, publisher, and spoken word performance artist who rattles cages, sparks laughs and loves to Read more…