Tag: Bobby Lefebre
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Crisosto Apache named Colorado’s 11th Poet Laureate
Indigenous poet will succeed Andrea Gibson, who died of cancer last summer, and serve two-year term Gov. Jared Polis continued to make history Wednesday with the appointment of his third Colorado Poet Laureate: Crisosto Apache, an associate professor at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. Apache will serve an uncommonly short two-year term with…
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Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s inauguration: Poet laureate, protesters and other side-stories
Before, during and after Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s inauguration Monday, there were plenty of non-ceremony events happening. Here’s a small collection: Colorado Poet Laureate Bobby LeFebre delivers new poem The crowd really got fired up from this poem, “Questions for the Moment,” delivered in three minutes during the 1-hour-and-15-minute ceremony: “Let us say that this…