Tuesday September 9th

Trident Author Series

Amanda Giguere

Shakespeare & Violence Prevention

“In this guide, Giguere details a practical and proven method of utilizing Shakespeare as a teaching tool. This is an important contribution to studies in both applied Shakespeare and violence prevention, and it will be impactful in the hands of both practitioners and educators.”

—Dr. Lezlie C. Cross, The Guthrie Theater

“For those of us who believe Shakespeare provides opportunities for deep inquiry, personal expression, and powerful learning, it is essential that we find ways to explore the plays that engage today’s students by connecting with their lived experience. This is a clear, accessible handbook for replication that is useful for educators everywhere.”

—Mary Hartman, Director of Education, Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival

Shakespeare and Violence Prevention is a handbook that guides educators through an exploration of Shakespeare’s potential to address the public health issue of youth violence. Amanda Giguere presents Shakespeare’s plays as a tool to understand, address root causes of, and prevent violence in our own communities. Performance-based engagement with the plays in an educational setting allows students to explore violence-prevention strategies, practice empathy, and build safer communities. Youth violence is an all too relevant topic, and this text helps educators, theatre companies, and academic theatre departments understand new ways in which the performing arts can positively impact young people.

Framed by examples from Giguere’s work with the Shakespeare & Violence Prevention program, an interdisciplinary outreach project for K–12 schools developed at the University of Colorado Boulder, the text offers helpful entry points, digestible research, and practical exercises to align a violence-prevention curriculum with Shakespeare’s plays. It provides a condensed overview of key findings from violence prevention, clear synopses of the plays, and practicable strategies to implement the program. Guided by firsthand experience with a tried-and-true school program that reaches thousands of K–12 students annually, Giguere shares the Colorado Shakespeare Festival method, which focuses on “upstander” roleplays to practice violence-prevention strategies. Using a clear distillation of Shakespeare studies and violence-prevention research, she shows how the two fields naturally reinforce the concepts of teamwork, empathy, change, and hope.

Shakespeare and Violence Prevention  is a new spin on these classic texts that empowers teachers and community leaders to use these tools to create research-guided university engagement programs, theatre company outreach programs, and K–12 student engagement with Shakespeare, even for those without expertise in violence prevention or Shakespeare.

About Amanda:

Amanda Giguere is the Director of Outreach for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, where she oversees all education and outreach programming. She also teaches for CU Boulder’s Applied Shakespeare certificate program. She holds an MA and PhD in Theatre from CU Boulder.

RasMoses is an international reggae artist who has performed from Kenya to Kingston, Jamaica and has current top 40 hit throughout Latin America. 

Ethiopian New Year Celebration Suggested donation $10 towards Www.uniteethiopia.org

Will Kuepper is a Colorado-based bassist and composer who performs widely across the Front Range. He has been a longtime host of weekly jazz nights at Jungle, the Mercury Café, and the No Name Bar (RIP), and can also be heard with standout Colorado bands Sturtz, Sound of Honey, and Tansy Wine.

As a composer, Kuepper draws from a wide pool of influence. His mentors Dawn Clement, Shane Endsley and Ron Miles, along with historic greats like Strayhorn, Mingus, and Motian (among many others) have deeply shaped his approach to the jazz idiom and improvisation. He is equally inspired by his work with songwriters and acoustic/roots musicians, which informs the lyrical and textural qualities of his music.

At the Trident, Kuepper will be joined by longtime collaborators Gabe Gravagno (drumset) and Alec Streete (vibraphone) to share original works, improvised pieces, and repertoire from the jazz canon.

Duncan Coker is an unrepentant balladeer from the Colorado piedmont, with a voice that carries. Solo or with his band, he brings a western swagger that lands like leather boots on barnwood and brass.

“SERIOUS SONGWRITING CREATIVITY” – Folk Rock Alchemist

“A VOICE LIKE A WARM BREEZE BLOWING THROUGH THE REEDS AT DUSK” – Tinnitist Podcast

Free! Every Monday evening, 7-9p.m. All languages welcome. Facilitated by Kelvin Tavarez.

About Elizabeth:

Elizabeth Jacobson's new poems are both profound and transparent, which is rare. Also rare is their intimacy with the natural world, rendered in language memorable for its near-microscopic observation and precision. Set in the desert, the tropics, and the human mind, the poems move fluently from family to ecological grief to the life of the spirit and beyond. Curious, eloquent, surprising, and probing, this book takes a hard, compassionate look at what it means to be human right now, moment to moment, on this injured planet. It's a book that deepens every time I read it. -Chase Twichell, author of Things as It Is

Elizabeth Jacobson was the fifth poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Her new collection, There Are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral is just out (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2025). Her previous collection, Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air (FVE/Parlor Press, 2019), won the New Measure Poetry Prize selected by Marianne Boruch, and the 2019 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for both New Mexico Poetry and Best New Mexico Book. She is also the author of Her Knees Pulled In (Tres Chicas Books, 2012); two chapbooks from Dancing Girl Press, “Are the Children Make Believe?” and “A Brown Stone”; and “Everything Feels Recent When You’re Far Away, Poetry and Art from Santa Fe Youth During the Pandemic” which she co-edited (Axle Books, 2021). Jacobson’s community projects have received nine consecutive grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. She is a reviews editor for the on-line magazine Terrain.org and directs the poetry programs at Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Arts (CCA).

About Matthew:

Matthew Cooperman is the author of, most recently, the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2024) and Wonder About The, winner of the Halcyon Prize (Middle Creek, 2023) as well as NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), w/Aby Kaupang, (Futurepoem, 2018), Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), and other books. His ninth book, Time, & Its Monument, is forthcoming from Station Hill Press. Cooperman is a 2025 Guggeheim Fellow in Poetry and Professor of English at Colorado State University. He lives in Fort Collins with his wife, the poet Aby Kaupang. More info at http://matthewcooperman.org

About atmosphere:

“Our job is to be both epic and tiny,”  Matthew Cooperman writes in this powerful book-length poem full of turns and twists on the American long poem road. Cooperman meditates on and tracks our imperiled American democracy, and the precarious future it forecasts as he twines the political world with the challenges and beauty of family life. In the face of crises, he affirms the meanings of love and the ways in which the language of poetry can bring us truths that are shattering and brilliant. —Peter Balakian, author of Ozone Journal, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

And Now...Featuring: is a monthly variety show that features local artists of all kinds. Poets, Music makers, Comedians, Dancers, Performance Artists...

Come early for the open jam session from 6-6:30pm (bring an instrument, borrow one!)

Then, stay for the Variety Show from 6:30-8!

Hosted by Aimee Herman

For more info or to feature for an upcoming month, email: aimeeherman@gmail.com

Come join us for a night of musical frenzy and serenity! Musical acts by one man band O-Tubes, an experimental sample based hybrid drummer O-Tubes is known for his quick tempos, jagged sounds and groovy lines. This drool worthy night will be sure to scratch heads and confuse young and old alike! More acts to be announced in the coming days.

Come and taste the 2025 Fresh Harvest of teas from the foothills of the Himalaya’s - Darjeeling! We will be tasting all of the fresh teas from the Rohini and Gopaldhara Estate in Darjeeling, India. In the Bookstore from 2pm - 4pm.

Brooke Delgado's music is an irresistible blend of Americana and soul. She is more than a singer; she is a versatile artist who effortlessly glides across genres. Each live performance is an immersive experience, drawing inspiration from R&B, blues, soul, and country. Her unmistakable roots, from Texas twang to Kansas City blues, bleeds into her musical stylings. Brooke's debut single, "Duplex Love", recently eclipsed 30,000 streams on Spotify. Celebrate her new release, a soul infused version of "You Are My Sunshine," during this carefully curated evening of acoustic sounds. https://linktr.ee/brookedelgadosings

Waylon Lewis is the founder of Elephant Journal and author of Things I Would Like to Do with You and It’s Never too Late to Fall in Love with Your Life.

Born and raised in a Buddhist community in Boulder, Colorado, he attended school on the east coast, worked at Shambhala Pubs and Boston's Trident Cafe & Booksellers, learned business 101 at Shambhala/Drala Mountain Center, wrote and meditated at Naropa University, and then started Elephant Magazine. Now known as Elephant Journal, the online publication reaches millions of readers a month and has 13+ million fans across social media. Its central message is encouraging people to get off social media, and be kind to themselves, others, animals, and our planet.

He founded Elephant Academy, which teaches meditation and writing to thousands; and hosts the award-winning Walk the Talk Show video series and podcast. A first-generation American Buddhist “Dharma Brat,” grumpy environmentalist, hopeful activist, mediocre climber, lazy yogi, and 365-day bicycle commuter, Waylon dearly misses Redford, his half-hound, all-trouble best pal.

This event marks his departure from Boulder, CO.

Free! Every Monday evening, 7-9p.m. All languages welcome. Facilitated by Kelvin Tavarez.

Dangerously Well Read Book Club — First Meeting! A Killer Getaway by Sienna Sharpe

Tuesday, September 23 | 6:00 PM | Trident Booksellers & Café

We’re launching our very first Dangerously Well Read meeting. This new book club is for women ages 25–45 who can’t resist a smart, twisty thriller. 

For our kickoff pick, we’re reading A Killer Getaway by Sienna Sharpe—the perfect end-of-summer thriller. Nothing says "vacation" quite like a female serial killer and a cat-and-mouse game that will keep you guessing until the very end. But the real question is: is our protagonist the hunter... or the hunted?

Join us for an evening of lively conversation, sharing theories, and a strong start to what promises to be a dangerously fun monthly tradition.

Trident Author Series

Janet Ward Schofield & Discovering Bhutan

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025

About: Discovering Bhutan: Land of Gross National Happiness

About Discovering Bhutan:
Discovering Bhutan provides an engaging and informative introduction to this remote and little-known Himalayan kingdom. It describes Bhutan’s extraordinary natural environment, discusses the ways in which its steep topography has impacted its development and examines the consequences of its strong environmental sustainability policies for everyday life.  It examines how fundamental tenets of Bhutan’s tantric Buddhism are evidenced in the daily lives of monks and demonstrates how animist beliefs help preserve the environment. Core aspects of Bhutanese identity including devotion to the monarchy, respect for authority, and deep connection to community and the extended family are highlighted as are evolving gender roles and marital practices. Finally, the origin of the idea of Gross National Happiness is explained and the extent to which Bhutan has moved toward its goals in that regard is discussed. This travelogue intertwines material from newspapers, folktales and other sources with the author’s extraordinary experiences during her decade in Bhutan to provide a vivid picture of a unique country and to stimulate Western readers to reflect on what can be learned from it.

About Janet Ward Schofield:

Prize-winning author Janet Ward Schofield has travelled to over one hundred countries on five continents. Bhutan, where she went on a one-year contract to help establish the country’s first private college and stayed for over a decade, is her favorite.  Before that, she was a professor of psychology for many years at the U. of Pittsburgh, and before that she taught at Spelman College. 

She has had Fulbright Fellowships in Poland and North Macedonia and consulted for Singapore’s National Institute of Education, Cambodia’s Center for the Study of Peace and Conflict and Germany’s WZB Berlin Social Science Research Centre.  She has given invited talks on five continents from Abu Dhabi and Australia to Uzbekistan. Her professional activities within the US range from leading a workshop for US Senators and Congressional Representatives to serving on National Academy of Sciences Boards and Committees. She was also elected to the governing body of the 173,000 member American Psychological Association, representing the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence on the APA Council of Representatives.

Janet earned her AB, MA and PhD from Harvard University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Her previous books on topics including intergroup relations and education have been characterized as   “brilliant,” “stunning” and “important” in reviews and commentary by noted individuals and her newest one, Discovering Bhutan,  has received similar accolades including “superb, ” “insightful and fascinating” and “A must read.” She now lives in Boulder.

The Boulder County Film Commission is hosting its NEW Filmmaker Support Group at the Trident! This is a great time for local filmmakers to get feedback, support, and encouragement from other local filmmakers. Bring a short script to read, a short rough cut to screen, or a professional problem you are facing, to share with a group of like-minded peers.

Sunkissd is an indie rock band based in Boulder, Colorado, known for soaring vocals, catchy and inventive guitar riffs, and a dynamic mix of originals and tasteful covers. With roots in the local music scene, Sunkissd has brought their vibrant energy to a charity event, fraternity parties, and more—and they’re now gearing up to take the stage at Moe’s Barbecue and headline Larimer Lounge.

Currently recording their debut album, Sunkissd is using this show as part of a promotional run for their upcoming Spotify release. Whether you’re a returning fan or discovering them for the first time, Sunkissd aims to make every set an unforgettable experience.

New Dog (Kill Rock Stars) is the musical project of Anar Badalov, formerly of the bands Metal Hearts (Suicide Squeeze Records) and Travels, and currently one half of Hourloupe & ARANANAR. Anar has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe, sharing the stage with artists including Six Organs of Admittance, Michael Gira, Akron/Family, Murder by Death, Chad VanGaalen, Big Thief, Mi and L’au, David Bazan, Black Heart Procession, and Kristin Hersh. His music has been described as “both ominous and amorous at once” and “intimately taut and emotionally wrought.” For fans of Nick Cave, Sparklehorse, Tindersticks, Low. 

Link to music: https://newdog.bandcamp.com

Bewitched by a conniving and seductive fox demon, King Zhou seizes the throne from his father and reigns as a brutal tyrant. Concerned for the fate of the world, the gods decide to intervene, placing their hopes on an unlikely hero who is brave enough to challenge the evil king. 

The first film in a trilogy, Feng Shen is based on the Ming Dynasty novel The Investiture of the Gods (封神演義). Largely unknown in the West, it is considered to be the most ambitious and expensive Chinese production ever made and is like a Chinese Lord of the Rings based on Chinese mythical history. 

Free! Every Monday evening, 7-9p.m. All languages welcome. Facilitated by Kelvin Tavarez.

About Moving The Bones:

A vulnerable and honest collection of poems exploring lineage, love, and the pandemic, from one of the most acclaimed poets of his generation.

“You are told to believe in one paradise / and then there is the paradise you come to know,” begins Rick Barot. What follows is an account of the rich and thorny valley between those poles. Moving the Bones dwells in liminal spaces—of love and memory, the pandemic’s singular domesticity, a serene cemetery of ancestral plots, dawn. In precise and tender verse, Barot captures the particularities of being in the middle of one’s life, reflecting on the joys and sorrows of the past and confronting the inevitabilities that lie ahead.

For Barot, this presence of mind is an art of being lost in thought. “My mind has a slow metabolism, it is slow / to understand what anything means,” he confides, “but understands that if you look at something / long enough, it will have something / to say to you.” Appreciating a Rembrandt, standing in a Goodwill, watching a boy with a flower behind his ear—we encounter ephemeral murmurs of meaning everywhere, but only by slowing down, listening. If we take time to notice the enduring insights of daily moments, if we praise cherry blossoms, lungs, and crying, we might find it easier to bear the loss of a loved one, the sting of solitude, the body’s decline.

By laying bare his own experiences, Barot brings us close enough to witness the lyrical work of consciousness. Patient and attentive, this collection illuminates the everyday and invites us to find pleasure in doing the same, at every stage of life.

About Rick Barot:

Rick Barot's most recent book of poems is Moving the Bones, published by Milkweed Editions in 2024.  His previous collection, The Galleons, was longlisted for the National Book Award.  His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, The New Republic, The Adroit Journal, and The New Yorker.  He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Stanford University.  He lives in Tacoma, Washington and directs The Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Pacific Lutheran University. 

About The End of Childhood:

A tender and provocative collection of poems interrogating the troubles and wonders of both childhood and parenthood against the backdrop of global violence.

From accomplished poet Wayne Miller comes a collection examining how an individual’s story both hues to and defies larger socio-political narratives and the sweep of history. A cubist making World War I camouflage, a forlorn panel on the ethics of violence in literature, an obsessive litany of “late capitalist” activities, a military drone pilot driving home after work—here, the awkward, the sweet, and the disturbing often merge. And underlying it all is Miller’s own domestic life with two children, who highlight the hopeful and ingenious aspects of childhood, which is “not // as I had thought / the thicket of light back at the entrance // but the wind still blowing / invisibly toward me / through it.”

The End of Childhood, Miller’s sixth collection of poems, is his most intimate, juxtaposing his own fraught youth with that of his children amid insurrection and pandemic, vacation and vocation, art and war. This piercing book spares nothing as it searches for a measure of personal benevolence and truth in today’s turbulent, brutalizing world—which it confronts through a singularly candid and lyrical voice.

About Wayne Miller:

Wayne Miller is the author of six poetry collections: The End of Childhood (2025), We the Jury (2021), Post- (2016), The City, Our City (2011), The Book of Props (2009), and Only the Senses Sleep (2006). His awards include the UNT Rilke Prize, two Colorado Book Awards, a Pushcart Prize, an NEA Translation Fellowship, six awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry, and a Fulbright Distinguished Scholarship to the Seamus Heaney Centre in Northern Ireland. He has co-translated two books from Albanian into English—most recently Moikom Zeqo’s Zodiac (2015), shortlisted for the PEN Center USA Award in Translation—and has co-edited three books, most recently Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century (2016). He lives in Denver, where he co-directs the Unsung Masters Series, teaches at the University of Colorado Denver, and edits Copper Nickel.

Bring an acoustic instrument and sit in with Boulder Old-Time Jam! Every first Thursday on the Trident Patio, starting at 6 p.m.

Pet Falcon is an emerging indie post-punk band from Boulder, CO, delivering raw, high-energy live shows and a sound that pulses with danceable melancholy. Drawing inspiration from classic bands like Joy Division, modern eclectics like Arcade Fire, and contemporaries like Wet Leg, their music delivers magnetic vocal hooks, jagged guitars, and driving basslines to balance grit and groove. Pet Falcon channels the spirit of a house party on the edge of collapse, with a sound that is chaotic, cathartic, and impossible to forget. 

“Peaks to Prairie” is a short film that explores the holistic nature of our world and how fungi have the potential to tackle climate challenges—from our mountain peaks to our open prairies.

 The film explores a groundbreaking pilot project in Boulder County working to restore agricultural soil with the help of nearby natural resources.

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Free! Every Monday evening, 7-9p.m. All languages welcome. Facilitated by Kelvin Tavarez.

REX OGLE is an award-winning author and the writer of nearly a hundred children’s books, comics, graphic novels, and memoirs—most notably Free Lunch, which won the ALA/YALSA award for Excellence in Non-Fiction.  

He has written under several pseudonyms, including Trey King and Honest Lee, but is currently focused on reimagining classic literature as modern or fantastical graphic novels as REY TERCIERO, under which he penned bestselling Meg, Jo, Beth, & Amy, as well as Northranger, nominated for both a Harvey and GLAAD Media Award. 

Born and raised (mostly) in Texas, Rex moved to New York City after college to intern with Marvel Comics before moving over to DC Comics, Scholastic, and Little Brown Young Readers.  As an editor, he championed over a dozen NY Times Bestsellers and worked (and often wrote) on major brands such as X-Men, Justice League, Star Wars, LEGO, Power Rangers, Transformers, Minecraft, Assassin’s Creed, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Neil Patrick Harris’s Magic Misfits.  

Now, Rex lives in Los Angeles where he writes every day—that is, when he’s not outdoors hiking with his dog, playing MarioKart with friends, or thinking up new ideas for books

BLACK VIIOLET is the alter-ego of Nicole Laurenne, lead singer and founder of Alternative Tentacles all-girl garagepunk band The Darts (US). Nicole steps away from her Farfisa organ flinging, crowdsurfing rock persona into a whole new world with Black Viiolet - a sultry, neosoul, vintage-jazz-inspired, triphop-tinged, spy-movie experience, invoking smoky jazz clubs and back-alley speakeasies. With musicians from two continents backing her and top-level producers, Black Viiolet is far more than just a side project but a true labor of love. Black Viiolet played its first live shows in 2024, in support of the debut EP, Kill Me Now (2024 Adrenalin Fix Music). Seattle’s premiere jazz radio station KNKX featured Black Viiolet on its show “The New Cool” and put the EP into rotation. Multiple tours in Europe and the USA soon followed. Keyboard giant Korg, Inc., became a sponsor for Nicole on two continents, Phantogram’s publicist added the band to its roster, and press began to roll in throughout the US, UK, and Europe. The EP sold out within nine months and was re-pressed onto 12” laser-etched photo-disc vinyl in Europe. The first full-length LP, After You (2025 Adrenalin Fix Music), was released in early 2025. The album features fourteen top-tier jazz musicians and nine top producers from the USA and Europe, including Conrad Real (Digable Planets) on drums. The album release tourstretched from France, Switzerland, and Germany to Canada and the USA Pacific Northwest, with horn players from both France and the USA and Darts’ labelmate Gregg Ziemba (Wheelchair Sportscamp) taking the drums to the next level on tour. Highlights included opening for Switzerland’s The Jackets and Seattle’s famed Easy Street Records hosting the band’s live show to close out the tour.

During the album release tour, Black Viiolet stopped at legendary Studio Black Box (The Kills) in France to record the second full-length album, which will include guest appearances by Blag Dahlia (The Dwarves), Tom Hagerman (Devotchka), Jason Devore (Authority Zero), and Jonathan Hischke (Nora Jones, Cigar). Wipeout Music Publishing (Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs) in the UK and Ivy Agency (Detroit Cobras) in the USA have added Black Viiolet to their rosters. The next album and tours promise an ever-evolv-ing, energetic-yet-soulful, always-personal experience like nothing else out there right now.

Max Bartos is a powerhouse 22-year-old Indie Folk Singer/Songwriter from New York City. Described as if "Mumford and Sons had a baby with Green Day" or "If Dave Grohl had a folk project", Max blends contradictory genres into seamless harmony through his long-standing love of Rock and Punk Music and traditional folk-style guitar playing. Max began his music career with his 2020 release "Playlist of My Life,” followed by his 2021 debut album "Such Is Life.” Following, Max began collaborating with 3x Grammy Award winner Alan Douches on his compositions, and released his 2023 album "Memento Mori.” Max has since migrated into the Indie Folk scene and released singles "Diamond In The Rough" and “Crossroads.” He is currently in the process of marketing and distribution for his new EP "Waiting At The Crossroads.” The much-anticipated release is planned for August 2025. 

Presenting Lady Grey Growls: the dynamic music duo of Emma Patterson on vocals and keys and Will hettel on drums. Their fusion of jazz, soul, and singer-songwriter genres creates infectious rhythms and captivating melodies. This set will also feature Emma's talented voice and piano students from her Lafayette-based music studio. Get ready to groove to covers and original sounds from Lady Grey Growls and featured students!

Free! Every Monday evening, 7-9p.m. All languages welcome. Facilitated by Kelvin Tavarez.

Andrew Singer Bio:

Andrew Singer is an author, minimalist, and full-time nomad. Originally from Houston, Andrew shares his passion for travel, addiction recovery, and mental health awareness through his writing, which swings from hilarious to heartfelt. A lover of nature, adventure, and the open road, Andrew spends most of the year living out of a self-built campervan, exploring public lands and engaging with the interesting people he meets along the way. When he is not living in a van (which is somehow still holding up), he can be found backpacking abroad, immersed in other cultures, and dancing until sunrise. He is married to fellow vagabond and the author of She Journeys, Sarah May. Now Is the Time is his debut travel memoir.

Now Is the Time: A Van Life Road Trip 

Description:

Lovestruck and newly unemployed, Andrew Singer cashes in his savings to investigate a key question: Is #vanlife as awesome as it looks? After all, what could go wrong when two millennials—who have never used a saw before—attempt to convert a plumber’s van into a tiny home-on-wheels?

On this 13,000-mile road trip across the vast American West, Andrew and his partner Sarah battle pest infestations, escape wildfires, and have a portable toilet test every relationship boundary imaginable. Meanwhile, exploring national parks and run-ins with colorful characters make for a transformative journey. Yet, to live the life he’s always dreamed of, Andrew needs to shed more than his belongings—he has to unpack the baggage of a complicated past.

Buckle up for this hilarious and inspirational travel memoir that takes us inside the soul of a man who finds love and home through minimalism and healing. Featuring America’s most stunning natural marvels, Now Is the Time reminds us to stop scrolling and start living. 

Sarah May Bio:

Sarah May is a yoga instructor, Reiki healer, and intuitive. She provides her clients with powerful practices and healing insights from the studio to private sessions, retreats, and women’s circles. Sarah received her Master of Science in Conflict Analysis and Resolution and previously managed a non-profit. She Journeys is her debut memoir. In 2020, she and her husband—fellow author Andrew Singer—converted a cargo van and hit the road. They spend their time exploring and writing across America’s public lands. When not on wheels, Houston and San Diego are home base.

She Journeys: A Memoir of Heartbreak and Homecoming

Description:

Few things can shatter our hearts like expectations. Sarah expected to live happily ever after. She expected her husband to honor his vows. She expected his military helicopter to land safely. But when the unimaginable occurred and her world unraveled so magnificently, the undoing of her expectations left her on her knees, fighting for her life. When everything we “expect” crumbles like ash after a fire, how do we reconcile what was lost?

One courageous step at a time.

Sarah packed her car, then set out to hike and camp across the country. But pain, codependence, and trauma challenged her as she moved forward. From a sailboat to a yoga studio, a therapist’s couch to a shaman’s ceremony, from selling everything and moving into a van—on the ashes of her former expectations, Sarah rebuilt, from the inside out.

She Journeys is a testament to the transformative power of healing. From darkness to light, from a marriage ended to a life reclaimed, we are reminded that it never matters how we begin. Only that we do. From wounds to wisdom, She is every woman who must find her way from heartbreak to homecoming.

Boulder Reporting Lab is hosting a City Council Candidate forum at Trident.

And Now...Featuring: is a monthly variety show that features local artists of all kinds. Poets, Music makers, Comedians, Dancers, Performance Artists...

Come early for the open jam session from 6-6:30pm (bring an instrument, borrow one!)

Then, stay for the Variety Show from 6:30-8!

Hosted by Aimee Herman

For more info or to feature for an upcoming month, email: aimeeherman@gmail.com

Free! Every Monday evening, 7-9p.m. All languages welcome. Facilitated by Kelvin Tavarez.

About the Anthology:

Screaming at America: An Anthology of Disobedience is a necessary collection of voices from all over the world, with many featured writers and artists from Boulder, Denver, and the front range. Join us to hear pieces from this powerful collection. You'll also have the opportunity to share your own work that aligns with the theme.  We scream so our voices are heard. We scream to be in solidarity together. We scream because we care!

About the Editors:

Olivia Pearman (she/her) is a Boulder-based poet who believes strongly in the importance of art and its ability to change the world.

Joshua C. Robinson (they/them) is a poet, memoirist, journalist, and founder of Art Before Money. They love you and they mean it!

Effervescent and tough, Emma Sky is like a River. Her catchy and beautiful melodies travel on a harmonic stream of fingerpicking guitar. Lyrically, she explores feelings most humans can relate to - thinking too much, wanting a simple and easy life, and of course love both gained and lost. She is inspired by artists like Sierra Ferrell, Bella White, and Labi Siffre as well as local artists like Derek Dames Ohl, Ingrid Avison, and Sturtz. Her influences validate what she hopes to offer which is a feeling of connectedness. She exists to inspire her listeners to connect with their inner dreamer and the unseen current of energy that connects us all and flows to the magical ocean of love, color, and creativity. 

Emmet Griffin is a local musician from Nederland. Aspiring luthier, songwriter, and session musician, music is Emmet’s life and love. With a heart of gold, Emmet’s presence combined with his unique style of guitar playing and songwriting make him a joy and wonder to witness. There is always a tune buzzing around in his head. As a long time busker, Emmet finds epic power in collaboration and opening his heart to the world. He works at various local venues as a stagehand and is always down to lend a helping hand. 

Born and raised in Ward, Colorado, Ella Wren Running-Rabbit embodies the spirit of our beloved forests and mountains. Chopping wood and hauling water have always been a natural part of life for Ella. This inherent earthiness echoes in her music and entire being. She sings her stories and ponderings over impressive bluegrass style guitar playing. Ella is known to incorporate a variety of instruments including accordion, native american drum, piano, and harmonica. There is an effortlessness to her performance and getting to hear her play feels like a gift. 

Their sound will be familiar to you if you’re a fan of Americana and Alt-Country (mixed with Honky-Tonk and a little bit of Cowpunk). Their sound will be familiar if you listen to bands like Whiskeytown and Drive-By Truckers. Raw and polished at the same time, with loud guitars, 3 part harmonies, and a passion for Songwriting, storytelling, and bringing all of that to the stage.

Less than a year after their formation, Jack Yoder & the Doublewide Disaster have pulled off their first Midwest tour. 7 states, 11 shows, and 14 days on the road, honing in on their sound at every venue. You may have heard them recently, but you haven't heard them like this before.

The shows that the Doublewide Disaster put on are described as a whole lot of fun.  Fans see a band onstage having a great time performing, adding in storytelling and engaging with the crowd, who gets drawn into the moment. To the point where the crowd is singing the lyrics and participating in sing-alongs as loudly as they can. Think about how hard it is to get a group of people to sing along in a crowd participation chant. At a Doublewide show, they do it all the time. You’ll hear and see a band that loves what they do, is engaging, and is grateful to be onstage every time.  

Built around Jack Yoder's Solo acoustic show and his years of touring throughout the country, Jack Yoder & the Doublewide Disaster bring that catalog to an all-new, higher level that’s a must-see.

Some good tunes!

Free! Every Monday evening, 7-9p.m. All languages welcome. Facilitated by Kelvin Tavarez.

Static Parade is a reading series hosted by the CU Boulder creative writing MFA students. Every semester, this series introduces writers from our program to the larger Boulder community through our longstanding partnership with Trident Booksellers. Please join us to hear three of our writers of either fiction or poetry share their latest work for about twenty minutes each, with a short intermission.

Divino BetSatori‘s devotional world music combines ancient wisdom with modern insight. Drawing from the universal teachings of spiritual traditions worldwide, they share kirtan, medicine music, and original songs, which are best described as “indie-acoustic folk-rock, with hip-hop and reggae influence”. The band is based out of Boulder, Colorado; and they are on a mission to help you Remember Your Divinity. 

Divino BetSatori has played at all major yoga studios in the Denver area, expanding its reach across Colorado, playing at festivals such as Sangha Fest, AWAKE Fest, Muse Fest, and BLISS, Colorado Chant and Sacred Sound Festival. Divino BetSatori’s debut album “Remember Your Divinity” was released in 2025. 

Bruno Treves (guitar, vocals) stands as the backbone of the project, anchored in devotion for the Divine; rooted down through practice, and branching out through the community. Shows range from Bruno’s solo acoustic performances, to full-band sets with multiple guitars, backing vocals, percussion, bass, violin, and surprise guest musicians. 

As a solo artist, Bruno leads kirtan, and serenaded his audience during public and private ceremonies. As a group, Divino BetSatori offers a variety of sets, including kirtan, medicine music, original songs, and a mix from all the above. They can engage the audience, prompting people to sing along, and can also play background music for any event, providing the right vibe for parties, weddings, festivals, and community events. More info on the website: www.divinobetsatori.com 

Free! Every Monday evening, 7-9p.m. All languages welcome. Facilitated by Kelvin Tavarez.

Victoria Lee grew up in Durham, North Carolina, where she spent her childhood writing ghost stories and fantasizing about attending boarding school. She has a Ph.D. in psychology, which she uses to overanalyze fictional characters and also herself. Lee is the author of A Lesson in Vengeance as well as The Fever King and its sequel, The Electric Heir. She lives in New York City with her partner, cat, and malevolent dog.

Mira Devi

Mira Devi's music is a soul-stirring blend of East and West, weaving folk melodies with poetic storytelling. Drawing inspiration from artists like Shawn Colvin, The Band, and Gregory Alan Isakov, her thoughtful musicianship and evocative lyrics explore love, loss, motherhood, and the search for connection in a beautifully imperfect world. Explore her offerings at www.miradevi.com

Paula Gayatri

Singer-songwriter Paula Gayatri delivers poetic, intimate performances dripping with soul. Early influences like Joni Mitchell, Indigo Girls, and Bach have woven with her years of chanting and meditation at a yoga ashram. Check out her album, Between Music & Love, and explore her offerings at www.gayatri.devillier.com

Bring an acoustic instrument and sit in with Boulder Old-Time Jam! Every first Thursday on the Trident Patio, starting at 6 p.m.

Free! Every Monday evening, 7-9p.m. All languages welcome. Facilitated by Kelvin Tavarez.

About Eddie:

Eddie Ahn is the author and artist of "Advocate," the national bestseller graphic memoir published by Penguin Random House in 2024, and he has worked as an environmental justice attorney and nonprofit worker for fifteen years. While working as the executive director of Brightline Defense, a San Francisco–based environmental justice nonprofit, he was inducted into the State of California’s Clean Energy Hall of Fame for his work in equity and clean energy. In addition to his nonprofit work, he has served as president of the San Francisco Commission on the Environment as well as a commissioner on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and Bay Conservation and Development Commission. He is a self-taught artist who has been recognized as a Cartoonist-in-Residence by the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa.

About Advocate:

“Advocate,” ISBN 9781984862495, a graphic memoir published by Penguin Random House/Ten Speed Graphic

Born in the United States to Korean immigrants, Eddie grew up working at his family’s store with the weighty expectations that their sacrifices would be paid off when he achieved the “American Dream.” Years later after moving to San Francisco and earning a coveted law degree, he then does the unthinkable: he rejects a lucrative legal career to enter the nonprofit world.

In carving his own path, Eddie defies his family’s notions of economic success, igniting a struggle between family expectations, professional goals, and dreams of community. As an environmental justice attorney, he confronts the most immediate issues the country is facing today, from the devastating effects of wildfires to economic inequality, all while combatting burnout and racial prejudice. In coming fully into his own, Eddie also reaches a hand back to his parents, showing them the value of a life of service rather than one spent only seeking monetary wealth.

Weaving together humorous anecdotes with moments of victory and hope, this powerful, deeply contemplative full-color graphic novel explores the relationship between immigration and activism, opportunity and obligation, and familial duty and community service.

“Consisting of four likeminded sonic searchers, Blue Pink Little Shoe steps on the line between intention and happenstance and then runs in the opposite direction. One can never know what hidden timbres might emerge from a session. Unpredictable as they are consistent, melodic as they are chaotic, each member succumbs to the gravitational pull of a collective cacophony that transcends space and time.”

Free! Every Monday evening, 7-9p.m. All languages welcome. Facilitated by Kelvin Tavarez.

A Love Letter to Reading is a genre-blending literary thriller that follows Ariana Rossi, a skilled assassin raised in a morally corrupt crime family. By day, she’s a compassionate pediatric oncology nurse. By night, she operates as the elusive "Scorpion," executing high-profile targets in choreographed precision—each kill set to a curated playlist. But when a job hits too close to home, Ariana begins to question her loyalty, identity, and future. With emotional depth, dark humor, and unexpected tenderness, this debut novel explores themes of duality, trauma, justice, and the healing power of story and connection.

Heather Snodgrass has a lifelong love of novels, movies, and the creative arts. A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she has explored multiple avenues to bring stories to life. She lives in Colorado with her husband, JD, and their dogs, and enjoys traveling, gardening, and playing video games. Like her character Ariana, she keeps a playlist for everything and invites others to share theirs in return. Her debut novel, A Love Letter to Reading, explores complex characters in a world where the arts reveal the best of the human spirit. She recently received the International Impact Book Award (July 2025).

Kings of Oblivion will be playing:

Mostly folk, rock, and jazz songs of angst, destruction, quiet desperation, and idiocy. A mix of originals, some obscure covers, and a sprinkling of classic rock songs some of you might know. And here's a link to lyrics to Wysh's songs: https://kingsofoblivionband.wordpress.com/lyrics/

Emily Barnes is a contemporary folk singer-songwriter known for her haunting voice and vividly drawn characters. Hailing from the tiny town of Johnsonburg, NJ, she’s built a grassroots following through heartfelt performances and honest storytelling. With four albums to her name—including her latest, Mint Condition, which led to a sold-out Northeast tour—Barnes has also been a finalist in prestigious songwriting contests like the Kerrville Folk Festival, Red Lodge Songwriters Festival, and Acorn Song Contest. Her music invites listeners into a world where every lyric tells a story.

Free! Every Monday evening, 7-9p.m. All languages welcome. Facilitated by Kelvin Tavarez.

Salads and Sunbeams is a psych-pop group based in Denver, Colorado. Salads’ primary singer/songwriter, Nathan Brazil, started the band in 2014 as an outlet for the simplistic, poppy, retro songs that didn’t quite fit with the bands he was involved in at the time. Members have come and gone, though Denver music fixture and Brazil’s longtime collaborator, Suzi Allegra, has been involved with nearly everything the group has done.

The first incarnation of the group released a self-titled EP in 2014 with little fanfare, though it was very good and captures the original, sloppy/poppy thrust of the group. Shortly thereafter, life intervened. The death of someone close to Brazil and a shared desire for change and growth scattered the group across the country and the world. After the shakeup, as the world slowly came back into focus, Brazil headed to the basement and recorded another Salads and Sunbeams album, Tintinnabulation, almost entirely on his own, though with notable additions from Allegra. This new album sprawled beyond simple pop to encompass ambient pieces, covers of Victorian comic-opera, the use of a professional string quartet, synthesizers, and general experimentation.

Very proud of the album, Brazil released it digitally in early 2020, just in time for the Covid pandemic to eclipse and redefine its relevance.

Returning to Denver in late 2021, Brazil reconnected with Suzi Allegra and the larger Denver music scene and restarted the group as a live project, writing and rehearsing new material in addition to previously unperformed material from Tintinnabulation.

The new group made its debut at Down In Denver 2022 and continues to play shows in and around Denver. Their new full-length album, Into the Starless Night was released March, 18 2025.

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The current lineup is: Nathan Brazil (guitar/keys/vocals), Suzi Allegra (bass/keys/vocals), Justin Drummond (drums), and Eric Thompson (guitar/keys)

Free! Every Monday evening, 7-9p.m. All languages welcome. Facilitated by Kelvin Tavarez.

Reed Bye’s most recent poetry collections include Earth’s Hollow Breathing; Morning Rites; and Addled Smoke Material: Collaborative Poems with Jack Collom 1972-2017. He has new album of original songs, Down Here. He is Professor Emeritus at Naropa University where he served on the core faculty of the Jack Kerouac School, teaching poetry writing workshops and courses in classic and contemporary literary studies and contemplative poetics. 

“The mind may move faster than the hand can write but Reed Bye’s poems capture the dictates of thought as processed by the conspiratorial and wandering eye, all the light and shadow of the natural world, the peripheral glimpses of people and places where few poets ever go. Lucid, abstract, impulsive, beyond the pale—Fire for Thought is both a summing up and a starting over—'what seems to be necessary,' and something much more.”— Lewis Warsh

Mike Parker was born in the brass mill town of Waterbury Connecticut in 1944. D'Spare Press published three collections of his poetry: Don't Fall Off the Mountain, Wallflower Sutra, and Walking on Water in a Razorblade Breeze, and he has three live poetry CDs. He sang in the band Ballistic Kisses, recording two albums on Beggars Banquet Records, Total Access and Wet Moments. He served two terms of Artist in Residence for the Ward Public Library and was the recipient of the Neodata Literary Fellowship from the Boulder County Arts Alliance. He lives with his wife the poet Mary Johnston Parker and daughter Frannie in the town of Ward Colorado on the edge of the Indian Peaks Wilderness.

Bring an acoustic instrument and sit in with Boulder Old-Time Jam! Every first Thursday on the Trident Patio, starting at 6 p.m.

Free! Every Monday evening, 7-9p.m. All languages welcome. Facilitated by Kelvin Tavarez.

An evening of poetic scroll readings, breath, and stillness — a quiet space to pause, listen, and carry home a blessing.

A small, quiet gathering — an hour of scroll readings, breath, and stillness, with space for reflection between pieces.

Here, you’ll find scrolls. Songs. Star trails.
Some are spoken. Some are sung. Some are simply breathed.

This is not a place to be impressed —
it’s a place to remember.

Let the hush guide you.
Let the laughter open you.
Let the stillness stay with you, long after you leave.

✧ You are not late. You are not behind.
You are already in the temple.

Ahnara is a scrollkeeper, musician, and composer of sacred texts and tones. Through her work at Ahnara Music, she creates channeled scrolls, songs, and soundscapes that invite remembrance, stillness, and quiet joy. Her scrolls are living texts — poetic transmissions woven with blessing, tone, and presence — while her music carries breath, voice, and cinematic soundscapes that open the heart.

Based in Boulder, Ahnara shares her work through her website, where visitors can explore collections such as the Breath Scrolls, Mystic Scrolls, and Heart Scrolls, as well as her original music. Together, the scrolls and songs form a sanctuary of reflection, laughter, and soft awakening.

She also shares her music on YouTube, offering gentle soundscapes for reflection and joy.
You can learn more at www.ahnaramusic.com.

Free! Every Monday evening, 7-9p.m. All languages welcome. Facilitated by Kelvin Tavarez.

About Barbara:

Barbara Caver grew up in South Carolina where singing in the church choir, writing in her notebook with her friend at recess, studying ballet, and performing in community theater were her first introductions to the art of storytelling.

An adventurer at heart, Barbara moved to New York at the age of 17 for college where she became a filmmaker and embarked on a twenty-five year career in the film and television industry. Barbara wears many hats as a seasoned production executive behind the scenes of many Oscar- and Emmy-award winning documentaries and series.

Now Barbara tells her own story with the December 2nd release of her travel memoir A Little Piece of Cuba. An experienced traveler with nearly twenty countries visited, Barbara was 37 before she finally boarded a JetBlue flight from New York to Havana, the place where her mother was born. Cuba welcomed Barbara home and challenged her to ask the question, “Am I Cuban or not?” The experience confirmed for Barbara that travel leads to the richest gift of all: self-discovery and acceptance.

A Little Piece of Cuba: A Journey to Become Cubana-Americana is Barbara’s debut memoir and is available on December 2, 2025! Read an excerpt here

Part travel adventure, part ghost story, and part memoir, A Little Piece of Cuba: A Journey To Become Cubana-Americana is an imaginative and humorous personal journey through Barbara’s memories and experiences as she discovers that she is and has always been more Cuban than she thought.

Free! Every Monday evening, 7-9p.m. All languages welcome. Facilitated by Kelvin Tavarez.

Free! Every Monday evening, 7-9p.m. All languages welcome. Facilitated by Kelvin Tavarez.

MY OCEANS

An urgent exploration of caring & mothering on a planet in crisis

In a swell of sea-linked essays, Christina Rivera explores the kinship between marine animals, humans, and Earth’s blue womb. Rivera’s investigative questions begin with the toxic burden of her body and spiral out—to a grieving orca, a hunted manta ray, a pregnant sea turtle, a spawning salmon, an “endling” porpoise, and the “mother culture” of sperm whales —as she redefines what it means to mother and defend a collective future. Braiding memoir with embodied climate science, Rivera challenges that it’s not anthropomorphism to feel deep connection to non-human species and proposes that gathering in collective grief is essential amid the sixth mass extinction on Earth. For ecofeminists, fans of Terry Tempest Williams and Rachel Carson—and for anyone who feels themself disintegrate in the presence of the sea—My Oceans offers a timely and wondrous descent into the deep waters of interbeing in which we swim.

 "This collection is threaded with wonder, history, and heartache. In My Oceans, motherhood is not sentimentalized but shown as a transformative political power. Masterfully constructed and beautifully written, this book dwells in the depths—not only of oceans but of mourning, awe, anger, and action." —Beth Piatote, Author of The Beadworkers: Stories

Christina Rivera is a Pushcart Prize-winning essayist from Colorado whose girlhood was bordered by coastlines of Pacific Ocean. She is the debut author of MY OCEANS: Essays of Water, Whales, and Women (Northwestern University Press, March 2025) which was longlisted for the Graywolf Press Prize and a finalist for the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature. Her work has won the John Burroughs Nature Essay Award (the highest annual honor for a creative nonfiction essay on place, science, and the environment) and appeared in Orion, Longreads, The Cut, and Terrain.org, among other places. Christina is so excited to return to Trident for the author series, having filled many pages of journals at those little tables in the cafe in her 20s! You can learn more about Christina and MY OCEANS at www.christinarivera.com or subscribe to her irregular series of blue love notes, MobyBytes on Substack.

This fall, Smithsonian Books published On a Mission: The Smithsonian History of US Women Astronauts, a can’t-miss book for space lovers that celebrates three generations of US women astronauts, including the challenges they’ve faced and the significant contributions they’ve made.

Boulder resident Valerie Neal, curator emerita from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and expert on human spaceflight, interviewed many of the US women astronauts to bring their experiences to life. Profiles of all NASA’s spacefaring women highlight their individual and collective achievements across almost 50 years.

Sally Ride became a household name as the first American woman in space, but scores of equally impressive women have also left their mark in space. On a Mission: The Smithsonian History of US Women Astronauts spans 45 years and 61 astronauts to share the epic journeys of women who made space for themselves in a male-dominated field.

Valerie Neal, emerita curator in the Department of Space History at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, offers a culturally insightful history of the experiences of women astronauts, the challenges they've faced, and their distinctive stories. Collectively, they've completed more than 100 space shuttle missions and more than 30 long-duration stays on the International Space Station and Russian Space Station Mir, and they continue to prove themselves in present-day space exploration efforts.

The book includes 50 black-and-white photographs to complement the historical account. With its sweeping look from the first women astronauts to Christina Hammock Koch, assigned to the first crewed Artemis mission around the Moon, there is no comparably thorough book on America's women astronauts. On a Mission is an inspiring tribute to unsung women's history.

VALERIE NEAL is a curator emerita in the Department of Space History at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, where she oversaw the human spaceflight collections from the space shuttle and International Space Station programs, and she initiated the collection of artifacts from women astronauts. Her previous books include Discovery: Champion of the Space Shuttle Fleet and Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era and Beyond.

David Mason was born in Bellingham, Washington, and has lived in many parts of the world. He served four years as poet laureate of Colorado before moving to Tasmania in 2018. His many books include The Country I Remember (winner of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award), Ludlow: A Verse Novel (winner of the Colorado Book Award), The Sound: New and Selected Poems and Pacific Light. Mason has also written four books of essays and co-edited several textbooks and anthologies. His work can be found in The New Yorker, The Weekend Australian, The Australian Book Review, Poetry, The Wall Street Journal, The Times Literary Supplement, The Hudson Review, The Nation, and many other periodicals. His libretti for operas by composers Lori Laitman and Tom Cipullo are all available on CD from Naxos. Mason’s website can be found at https://davidmasonpoet.com

Mark Irwin is the author of thirteen collections of poetry, including Once When Green (2025), Joyful Orphan (2023), Shimmer (2020), American Urn: Selected Poems (1987-2014), Tall If (2008), and Bright Hunger (2004). Recognition for his work includes The Nation/Discovery Award, two Colorado Book Awards, four Pushcart Prizes, the James Wright Poetry Award, the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, The Juniper Prize for Poetry, and fellowships from the Fulbright, Lilly, and NEA. He has also translated three volumes of poetry and lives in Colorado and Los Angeles, where he teaches at the University of Southern California. His poetry has been translated into several languages.

Mark Irwin’s new poems that ask “how long, how bright?” are radiant with a sheen of longing and urgency.

—Arthur Sze, National Book Award

“So often we consider how to tell the story of our beginnings, but what is it to persist, through language, in a suspended state of endings? To “witness a world that is perishing” even as one is “lonely for the present”? Once When Green is a primer in listening to that which we are unaccustomed to conceiving of as having sound, relayed in a rush of lyric language after the lilting of waves and movement of stars.                                                                                

—Abigail Chabitnoy