Music & Poetry: David Romtvedt & Dale Bohren

Dale Bohren says: “What I love about ARTCORE’s Music & Poetry series is the simplicity of collaboration. David and I will collaborate on the music, which will produce an interesting variation on what we are each working on independently. Separately, I will tell a true story about someone I met traveling in Morocco during the pandemic, and another about the search for John C. Fremont’s telescope lost near Casper in 1842.”

A graduate of Reed College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, David Romtvedt served with the Peace Corps and Maison du Québec in Rwanda and with a sister city construction project in Jalapa, Nicaragua. He is a professor emeritus in the MFA program for writers at the University of Wyoming and was the state’s poet laureate from 2003 to 2011. With the band The Fireants, he performs dance music of the Americas and with Ospa, traditional and new Basque music.

His most recent books are Still on Earth, a poetry collection, and Forest of Ash, translations of the earliest written Basque song and poetry. Earlier books include No Way: An American Tao Te Ching and Gernikako arbola / The Tree of Gernika, translations of the nineteenth century Basque poet and troubadour Joxe Mari Iparragirre. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Wyoming Arts Council, his work has won the Pushcart Prize, and the Wyoming Governor’s Arts Award. His book A Flower Whose Name I Do Not Know was a National Poetry Series selection.

Co-Sponsored by TownSquare Casper and the Wyoming Community Foundation – Casper.