About the Event

Abigail Chabitnoy, winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award for Poetry, and Crisosto Apache read from their work. We’ll also feature an up-and-coming poet and an open reading.

Poets interested in participating in the open reading should email StewartAuditorium@LongmontColorado.gov.

About the Poets

Abigail Chabitnoy is the author of “How to Dress a Fish” (Wesleyan 2019), winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award for Poetry and shortlisted in the international category of the 2020 Griffin Prize for Poetry. She was a 2016 Peripheral Poets fellow and her poems have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Boston Review, Tin House, Gulf Coast, LitHub, and Red Ink, among others. Most recently, she was the recipient of the Witter Bynner Funded Native Poet Residency at Elsewhere Studios in Paonia, CO, and is a mentor for the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA in Creative Writing. She is a Koniag descendant and member of the Tangirnaq Native Village in Kodiak. Abigail holds a BA in anthropology and English from Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and an MFA in creative writing from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Crisosto Apache is originally from Mescalero, New Mexico, on the Mescalero Apache Reservation. He is Mescalero Apache, Chiricahua Apache, and Diné (Navajo) of the ‘Áshįįhí (Salt Clan) born for the Kinyaa’áanii (Towering House Clan). He earned an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Apache’s debut collection “GENESIS” (2018) stems from the vestiges of memory and cultural identity of a self-emergence as language, body, and cosmology. His poems have appeared in Yellow Medicine Review, Denver Quarterly, Hawaii Review, Red Ink Magazine, Cream City Review, Plume Anthology, and Common Place: The Journal of Early American Life, and in photographer Christopher Felver’s book “Tending the Fire: Native Voices and Portraits.” Apache currently lives in the Denver metro area with his spouse, where he teaches writing at various colleges and continues his advocacy work for the Native American LGBTQ / “two spirit” identity.

About Thursday Nights @ the (Virtual) Museum

Spend your Thursday evenings at the (virtual) Longmont Museum for panels, lectures, conversations, and readings presented live from our Stewart Auditorium for FREE.

Every Thursday at 7:30 pm, January 28 – April 29

Watch the Poetry Reading from April 8, 2021: