Music + Poetry: Dale Bohren + David Romtvedt

DALE BOHREN

“What I love about ARTCORE’s Music & Poetry series is the simplicity of collaboration. I will tell stories of interesting people I met over years of newspapering and storytelling through books and other projects. My solo string bass offering will no doubt be classical, but I am currently working to incorporate some of the bird calls I hear every spring on Goose Egg Road into these short classical pieces. But the thing I most look forward to is getting to know David Romtvedt. He is such an eclectic performer. And a poet. Look out! This will be a fun collaboration!”

DAVID ROMTVEDT

David Romtvedt is a writer and musician from Buffalo. He is the recipient of two NEA fellowships in poetry and music, two Wyoming Arts Council fellowships in poetry and fiction, the Pushcart Prize, and the Wyoming Governor’s Arts Award. He served for seven years as the state’s poet laureate. His book A Flower Whose Name I Do Not Know was a selection of the National Poetry Series. His most recent book is No Way: An American Tao Te Ching (LSU, 2021). During the first COVID summer lockdown he built a sauna and has been happily using it ever since.

Refreshments will be for sale from 6:45–7:30 pm and at intermission.