Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

05/09/2026

Thanks to everyone who joined us in person and online for our JKS Graduation Reading!

Special thanks to our unsung heroes who produced the event with our PAC crew: Niko Kolibri, Charmain Schuh, and David Jacques!

Kudos to Charlie Sachs for creating our beautiful Ikebana display!

Thank you to Sarah Elizabeth Schantz for giving our graduates a phenomenal sendoff! Bon voyage, Poets!!

05/08/2026

Join us we are going LIVE for the JKS Graduation Reading!!

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05/07/2026

Graduating Poet Spotlight!!
Introducing: Adam Fitzgerald!

Adam is an artist working to share education to empower humanity and protect nature as a writer, musician, and teacher who has lived in Detroit, Edinburgh, Denver, and Los Angeles. Founder of Underflow Records, Detroit’s WhateverFest, and “genre chameleons” Shady Groves, Adam hosts the Underflow Podcast and releases music as Quells. underflowrecords.com

3 T H R E E 3 is the first in a planned adult fiction trilogy mixing elements of the occult, sci-fi, fantasy, noir, and cross-genre: "A jaded occultist is bonded to a gifted psychic through a shared dream of the devil; cursing both as the only ones who can stop hell from unleashing upon earth."

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Please join us to celebrate our GRADUATING POETS!!
Friday, May 8th at 6pm
Performing Arts Center (PAC) on our historic Arapahoe campus, 2130 Arapahoe Ave in sunny Boulder, CO.
We are also delighted to offer this event on ZOOM: https://naropa.zoom.us/s/96315922602

05/06/2026

Graduating Poet Spotlight!!
Introducing: Heather Mars!

Heather Mars loves calculus, coffee, rain, and can’t say no to dumplings at dim sum. Her mediums include: poetry, non-fiction essays, fiction, fabric, fiber, collage, copy machines, letterpress, and wee books. Heather holds a bachelor of science in physics from the University of Oregon with a minor in Women’s Studies. Her art and writing has been published in Pathos, Lurch, and Bombay Gin Literary Journal, where she was the art editor for Issue 49. She is the 2024 Anselm Hollo fellow.

Beginning with the death and resurrection of the gnome Applebee, “The Turning of Pages” is a high-fantasy story of good versus necromancy told via an ensemble cast of character perspectives. Settings include a library Citadel, a sentient wood in perpetual mourning, and Sweet Sue’s Wayhouse, a ghost inn.
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Please join us to celebrate our GRADUATING POETS!!
Friday, May 8th at 6pm
Performing Arts Center (PAC) on our historic Arapahoe campus, 2130 Arapahoe Ave in sunny Boulder, CO.
We are also delighted to offer this event on ZOOM: https://naropa.zoom.us/s/96315922602

05/05/2026

Graduating Poet Spotlight!!
Introducing: Kristen Richards!

Kristen Richards is a poet and writer living in Denver, Colorado. She is the 2024 Anne Waldman fellow. Kristen is the author of two full-length poetry collections: "As if to return myself to the sea" and "The desert is a woman too," published by Indie Earth Publishing in 2023 and 2024. Her work has been published in Leviathan, The Elevation Review, and Cipher. She was previously a managing editor for Bombay Gin Literary Journal and is the founder of the soon-to-be independent press Solar Noon.

“Under No Condition Could I” is a cross-genre work that explores the intricacies of disease, disorder, and reversing inevitability. In this piece, disease becomes unnameable, undetermined, rumored. The writing exists as both the hunter and the hunted, the lover and the loved, an excised heart left on the kitchen counter to thaw, beating and beating and beating.
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Please join us to celebrate our GRADUATING POETS!!
Friday, May 8th at 6pm
Performing Arts Center (PAC) on our historic Arapahoe campus, 2130 Arapahoe Ave in sunny Boulder, CO.
We are also delighted to offer this event on ZOOM: https://naropa.zoom.us/s/96315922602

05/05/2026

Graduating Poet Spotlight!!
Introducing: painter!

painter (they/them) is a musician, writer, visual artist, and multidimensional being having a human experience. Though originally from so-called Maine, you can more recently find them playing violin and saxophone amongst artists of all types across Denver, Boulder, and Fort Collins, with bands such as Eli and the Hypotheticals, Clay K and the Vertebrates, rach, Black Market Translation, and more.

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Please join us to celebrate our GRADUATING POETS!!
Friday, May 8th at 6pm
Performing Arts Center (PAC) on our historic Arapahoe campus, 2130 Arapahoe Ave in sunny Boulder, CO.
We are also delighted to offer this event on ZOOM: https://naropa.zoom.us/s/96315922602

05/04/2026

Graduating Poet Spotlight!!
Introducing: Riza Pykkonen!

Riza is sitting in a chair nearby. Typically, she enjoys wandering beneath a budding canopy or over a dirt-dusted trail. Searching for..? Well, still searching. She wears the same boots pretty much every day. Steps have creased a hole on the left one, to let the occasional puddle in. Or pebble along for the ride. While she tends to overthink a sound, she’s working on sharing what she’s found. She dances in uncanny ways and invites you to join. And while no, her poems don't always rhyme, she wonders: what song shall we play?

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Please join us to celebrate our GRADUATING POETS!!
Friday, May 8th at 6pm
Performing Arts Center (PAC) on our historic Arapahoe campus, 2130 Arapahoe Ave in sunny Boulder, CO.
We are also delighted to offer this event on ZOOM: https://naropa.zoom.us/s/96315922602

05/04/2026

Graduating Poet Spotlight!!
Introducing: Charlie Tea!

Charlie is a singer-songwriter, poet, aspiring novelist, and busker based in Eldora, Colorado. Frequently seen on Pearl Street Mall, where some local toddler knows him as “tambourine foot." Charlie dreams of taking his one-man-band act not only across the country, but also across the pond, to Edinburgh, Scotland and beyond. His first full length album 22 Teas on Tap can be streamed wherever you listen to music, or purchased directly at charlietea.bandcamp.com. His favorite food is falafel, and his feet find themselves sore after tapping for four hours or more.

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Please join us to celebrate our GRADUATING POETS!!
Friday, May 8th at 6pm
Performing Arts Center (PAC) on our historic Arapahoe campus, 2130 Arapahoe Ave in sunny Boulder, CO.
We are also delighted to offer this event on ZOOM: https://naropa.zoom.us/s/96315922602

05/03/2026

Graduating Poet Spotlight!!
Introducing: Quartz Klapp!

Quartz is a teacher, writer, editor, roadtripper, and collector of stone frogs. They write gathering places for prose and poetry, laughter and terror, and truth and hope. Quartz will continue her time at Naropa as a faculty member. She lives in Lafayette, Colorado with her wife and their tuxedo cat.

Quartz’s Creative Thesis:

“On a Black Inner Tube
Through a Black Sky”

Playfully disorienting embodiments of hunger twisted with the realization that what we consume consumes us. Prose poems and short stories grappling with AI, aliens, GLP-1s, dentists, and Chick-fil-A sandwiches through dark comedy and unsettling truth.
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Please join us to celebrate our GRADUATING POETS!!

Friday, May 8th at 6pm
Performing Arts Center (PAC) on our historic Arapahoe campus, 2130 Arapahoe Ave in sunny Boulder, CO.

We are also delighted to offer this event on ZOOM: https://naropa.zoom.us/s/96315922602

02/09/2026

We don’t always have Summer weather in February, but when we do it’s because we’ve got Cuthwulf Eileen Myles in the house! TONIGHT! Lecture and reading as the honorable Allen Ginsberg Visiting Fellow of 2026.
7pm @ Performing Arts Center, Arapahoe Campus, Naropa University. See previous posts for details! #