A Poetic Evening with Devon Fulford joined by Camille Dungy, Garin Daum and Veronica Patterson

Date and Time

• Tuesday, May 6, 2025  6pm - 7pm

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Old Firehouse is delighted to welcome Devon Fulford for a poetry reading and discussion of her latest release, gulp! She will be joined by incredibly local authors, Camille Dungy, Garin Daum and Veronica Patterson! All four of these authors will be in store on May 6th from 6:00-7:00pm. If you'd like your book personalized, we ask that you wait until the end of the event before asking as we will have allotted time for signing and pictures.

About the book:

Devon Fulford's gulp feels the way memories of adolescence feel – that same nostalgic intensity most of us still carry, a kernel of our adult selves wrought in the fire of 90s teenage culture.
The specifics of her Colorado setting might translate to any place where girls begin to feel the surge of themselves in a society fearful of female becoming, which is to say: anywhere.

About Devon Fulford:

Devon Fulford (she.her) is a poet and educator. She has a Doctor of Education and Masters degrees in both creative writing and education. She has three poetry collections: gulp (Red Ogre Review, 2024), the skin song (Bottlecap Press, 2024), and southern atheist: oh, honey (Cathexis Northwest Press, 2021). Other poems can be found in Street Lit, Rat's Ass Review, BODY Literature, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Longridge Review, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, and many more.
Devon resides on the front range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and loves doing everything with her partner and chocolate Labrador (The Walrus), riding her Triumph Street Twin, dancing without compunction at live music shows, and advocating for conversations about topics that make us squirm. Visit her website: https://www.definwords.com/.

About Camille Dungy:

Camille T. Dungy was born and raised in the western United States (Colorado and California), though she has lived briefly in most other regions of the U.S. and has spent time on all but one continent and several countries. In much of her writing, Dungy considers history, landscape, culture, family, and desire. Her latest book, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden published by Simon and Schuster on May 2, 2023. Dungy is also the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan University Press: 2017), winner of the Colorado Book Award, and a Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History (W.W. Norton &Co: 2017), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. Dungy’s interest in the intersections between literature, environmental action, history, and culture led her to edit Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (University of Georgia Press: 2009), the first anthology to bring African American environmental poetry to national attention. She also co-edited the From the Fishouse poetry anthology and has served in several other editorial positions. Currently, she is the poetry editor for Orion magazine. Dungy’s work has appeared in over 40 anthologies plus dozens of print and online venues in the U.S. and abroad. You may know her as the host of Immaterial, a podcast from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Magnificent Noise. A University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University, Dungy’s further honors include the 2021 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, two NAACP Image Award nominations, and fellowships from the NEA in both prose and poetry.

About Garin Daum:

Garin Daum is a poet from Fort Collins, Colorado. He graduated from Colorado State University (2000) with a BA in English literature and a concentration in creative writing, under the masterful eye of the legendary poet and professor Bill Tremblay. He thought about continuing his education, because he already had 193 credits and no real intention of graduating. When he asked Tremblay for a letter of recommendation, he told Daum that if he really wanted to be a writer, he “needed to get out there and live!” So that’s what Daum did. He moved away, repeatedly fell in love, had beautiful kids, got divorced, watched people die, built some things and demolished some others, and experienced traumas only fit for a poet’s life. Daum’s published work is in the Fast Geek Reader: A Collection Of Fiction And Poetry. Garin has always felt the best way to share his poetry is live and loud and is most known for his performances with his band The Pre$ident$ Wive$, a free form punk rock jazz ensemble featuring members of Descendents/ALL, Lagwagon, INCH, Tanger, SPOT, and other punk legends. He continues living in midtown Fort Collins, raising his two fantastic kids with his heterosexual life partner—multimedia artist Vincent Cheap—and 5-10 dogs.

About Veronica Patterson:

Veronica Patterson is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Cornell University, the University of Michigan, the University of Northern Colorado, and the Warren Wilson College MFA program in poetry. Her poetry collections are How to Make a Terrarium (Cleveland State University, 1987); Swan, What Shores? (NYU Press Poetry Prize, 2000), which was a finalist for the Academy of American Poets’ 2000 James Laughlin Award and won awards from both the Colorado Center for the Book (Colorado Book Award for Poetry) and Women Writing the West (Willa Award); Thresh & Hold, which won the Gell Poetry Prize (Big Pencil Press, 2009) and was a finalist for the 2010 Colorado Book Award for Poetry; and & it had rained (CW Books, 2013); and Sudden White Fan (Cherry Grove Collections, 2018). She has also published two chapbook of prose poems, This Is the Strange Part (Pudding House Publications, 2002) and Maneuvers: Battle of the Little Bighorn Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2013), as well as a collection of poetry and photography, The Bones Remember: A Dialogue, with photographer Ronda Stone. Her poems “Around the Block of the World” and “The Samovar” co-won the 2006 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize. Patterson has been awarded artists’ residencies at the Ucross Foundation, Rocky Mountain National Park, Hedgebrook, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Gell Center. She received two Individual Artist’s Fellowships from the Colorado Council on the Arts. Poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize several times. Her essays have appeared in The Georgia Review, PieceWork Magazine, and Pilgrimage. Her essay “Comfort Me with Apples” was selected as a Notable Essay of the Year. She was selected as Loveland Colorado's first Poet Laureate in April 2019 and served through April 2022.

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