http://denver.yourhub.comThe latest blog posts in The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.comen-usnews@yourhub.com(c) 2009, YourHub.com5I really enjoyed teaching my first of six consecutive beginning Tarot classes yesterday at Nic Nac Nook . I'm happy to take on more students if you would like to join us next Saturday. Here are the details: This 6 week class meets every Saturday at 10:30 AM, and continues through S...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Education-General/Blog~655777.aspx9/13/2009 9:46:23 AMTabitha DialArt from Ashes is nonprofit in Denver that empowers struggling youth through poetry and other creative therapies that facilitate expression, connection and transformation. One of our volunteers donated $1,000 toward a contract with the Denver Venture School , which just opened in August 200...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Art/Blog~646248.aspx8/13/2009 1:23:36 PMTabitha DialCSU 's Cherokee Park Ballroom filled with laughter as visitors attempted to demonstrate their ability to use condoms at the table in the back on Nov. 29. Artwork made out of condoms was impossible to miss on the way to the bananas and wooden phallus awaiting safe sex demonstrations. Carrie ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~398547.aspx11/30/2007 9:14:19 AMTabitha DialI had a well-charged camera for the Three Voices reading at The Vault in Ft. Collins on Nov. 29, not because I planned to take photos there, but because I made my way to the bar after seeing the Condom Concoction Competition . One event featured a fiction, non-fiction and poetry MFA student fr...http://denver.yourhub.com/Boulder/Blogs/Archive/Photography/Blog~398507.aspx11/30/2007 7:12:25 AMTabitha DialThis is a response to Catherine Bird 's blog entry , informing Christians that the new movie The Golden Compass is the first in a trilogy of children/young adult novels from British author Philip Pullman 's Atheist perspective. I've read all three books and yes, folks, the young pro...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Film/Blog~395083.aspx11/21/2007 10:27:08 AMTabitha DialBlogger's note: If you can help out a girl with her homework, she'd appreciate it. I'm turning in a project for one of my classes -- this is one of the poetry prompts I've created for the project. If you would like to help illustrate how this prompt works, please add to the renga in the comments...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Poetry/Blog~393349.aspx11/17/2007 8:57:50 AMTabitha DialCraig Morgan Teicher 's first book of poems, Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems , was selected by Paul Hoover as winner of the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry. It is published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University. As an intern at the Center for...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Poetry/Blog~388768.aspx11/7/2007 8:53:17 AMTabitha DialAustralia's got loads of cool stuff: Ayer's Rock, kangaroos, steak and eggs for breakfast, and ... latte art competitions. Read this to learn more. This photo, courtesy tonx at Flickr , may make you consider the transitory nature of art, nature, coffee ... According to an article a...http://denver.yourhub.com/DenverSouth/Blogs/Archive/Art/Blog~366350.aspx9/23/2007 9:33:48 AMTabitha DialHere's a leap of assumption: not since the lyrics shared before the printing press, when a majority of poetry was shared publicly by minstrels, has someone with a talent for words and music been included in any English-language literary canon. Why shouldn't musicians be included in English te...http://denver.yourhub.com/DenverSouth/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Poetry/Blog~365733.aspx9/21/2007 10:36:21 AMTabitha DialI went for a walk the other day. And as I walked by a house on Lincoln, I noticed a little white dog statue sitting on the edge of someone's little cluster of trees and bushes in their front yard. "Cute dog," I thought. Then I heard water trickling. I had to look a bit closer to f...http://denver.yourhub.com/DenverSouth/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Poetry/Blog~363277.aspx9/16/2007 3:29:43 PMTabitha DialI can't seem to escape blogs -- they were part of my job at Y ourHub.com and now part of my homework at CSU . I had to begin researching a variety of poetry blogs this week and I'm grateful for the assignment. One visit to Paul Hoover 's blog reaffirmed that there's nothing more d...http://denver.yourhub.com/DenverSouth/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Poetry/Blog~361123.aspx9/12/2007 8:16:59 AMTabitha DialBlogger's note: Part of a class assignment this week is to find 10-15 blogs in my affinity group (i.e. poetry). I figure that if I'm going to find 10-15 blogs by poets, I may as well share 'em. Tabitha Dial's Top Ten Colorado poet blogs or -- more accurately -- a list of Colorado po...http://denver.yourhub.com/DenverSouth/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Poetry/Blog~358756.aspx9/7/2007 8:56:19 AMTabitha DialBlogger's note: Yours truly has begun a fine and mighty journey. I'm taking an English education class at CSU that will look at incorporating things like video games, graphic novels and blogs into instructing students in secondary schools. This blog is now part of my homework. I began to pl...http://denver.yourhub.com/DenverSouth/Blogs/Archive/Technology-The-Web/Gaming/Blog~356196.aspx9/1/2007 1:11:06 PMTabitha DialIt took several hours, one easel and a couple tubes of no. 66 cerulean blue oil paint (which is one dollar cheaper at the CSU bookstore than at Meininger's ) to do it, but finally -- the painting I promised to create for my boyfriend Alex is finally done. After almost a full year of in...http://denver.yourhub.com/DenverSouth/Blogs/Archive/Art/Blog~347705.aspx8/14/2007 1:12:36 PMTabitha DialI've volunteered, when time, at Art from Ashes in Denver for more than a year. Art from Ashes uses creative therapies to facilitate expression, connection and healing for area youth (and we have adult workshops , too). I recently got an e-mail from Catherine O'Neill Thorn , the exec...http://denver.yourhub.com/DenverSouth/Blogs/Archive/Blog~342788.aspx8/2/2007 9:28:02 AMTabitha DialBlogger's note: I've known Jari Thymian , the poet who wrote a chapbook called The Meaning of Barns for a couple of years now, through the Denver Woman's Press Club . After reading her new collection of poetry, I thought it'd be fun to interview her. Thanks for the read. You grew up o...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Poetry/Blog~340938.aspx7/30/2007 8:14:55 AMTabitha DialIt's been almost a month since I've posted a blog in Parker, because I'm now continuing my blog in Denver, having retired just recently from my job at YourHub.com, where I covered Parker, home of my parents and once my own homey locale. I'd be flattered if you were to continue to follow this ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Books/Blog~338288.aspx7/23/2007 5:33:46 PMTabitha DialI'll leave it at this: I am glad that Rowling wrote the final word on Harry Potter, not me. Her ending inspired me to leap around the apartment, cheering, giggling and clapping (won't be the first or last time I do such things). I'd love to hear what you thought about the book, so please ....http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Books/Blog~338284.aspx7/23/2007 5:09:35 PMTabitha DialSPOILER ALERT: I've read up to chapter 32 of this book and don't plan on holding back too much of what I know ... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Scholastic, 2007 Grade: A+ "It's got the best beginning to any of the books in the series," I told my boyfriend, Alex , on July...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Books/Blog~338083.aspx7/23/2007 11:04:53 AMTabitha DialEagles can be spotted at the west entrance. Wolves can be seen near the northeast corner ... but when Don Buss advised us at the visitor center that we might spot bighorn sheep, I had only one wildlife goal for my time in Yellowstone on July 17. I remember the name Don Buss because he...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Travel/Blog~337537.aspx7/21/2007 9:56:26 AMTabitha DialYou might be wondering how I've been spending my time, now that I've "retired" from YourHub.com. If you don't, well, this here be a blog, and on blogs, most people tend to write about themselves and their lives, so, sometimes even I admit these entries aren't that thrilling, but they have their p...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Poetry/Blog~334202.aspx7/13/2007 11:54:14 AMTabitha DialThe Greek Pavilion at Cheesman Park at 11th Ave and Franklin became a squatting ground for poets and fans of poetry July 7 for Denver Poet's Day . It was an easy bike ride and it was a fine occasion for hugging old friends who I seem to run into only at citywide poetry events. I ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Poetry/Blog~331873.aspx7/7/2007 4:57:01 PMTabitha DialThis weekend, Alex and I stopped at the Parker Cold Stone Creamery for a little dessert after a visit with my parents and brother. As I sat there, enjoying my chocolate devotion ice cream , I thought how it doesn't feel like summer to me until I've enjoyed ice cream outside. And I wante...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Blogs/Archive/Blog~330042.aspx7/3/2007 1:20:35 PMTabitha DialHi there. I've been published online at a unique literary/arts blog, whose editors might use my poetry someday to produce T-shirts and blogs. Check out my full blog here .http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Poetry/Blog~328351.aspx6/29/2007 1:12:33 PMTabitha DialWhen I was a guest poet at Renee Ruderman 's class at the Metropolitan State College of Denver on June 28, one of her students asked how you can make a living at writing. I recommended getting experience at The Metropolitan and using YourHub.com to gain clips and to build a relation...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Poetry/Blog~328215.aspx6/29/2007 10:34:27 AMTabitha DialThe conference room at the Parker Water & Sanitation building, 19801 E. Mainstreet, was packed with people June 26 for a Downtown Development Committee (DDC) meeting. The meeting addressed a redesign of downtown Parker that David Van Landschoot, chairperson elect of the DDC, is callin...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Blogs/Archive/Blog~327260.aspx6/27/2007 1:23:10 PMTabitha DialThe space where Centennial residents Dan Seaman , and Jan Hurst spend four hours each week feels more like an elegant hotel than it resembles a hospital. Within view of their volunteer stations at the information desk at Sky Ridge Medical Center is an ornate iron and wood railing that c...http://denver.yourhub.com/LoneTree/Blogs/Archive/Blog~325092.aspx6/21/2007 4:11:19 PMTabitha DialAfter coming back from my writer's residency in Vermont (which was wonderful), it's time to go public with more news. College-bound writers are often asked how they'll make a living: journalism or teaching? Journalism has been fun, but I have to see what it's like to be an English professor, a...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Blogs/Archive/Blog~320402.aspx6/12/2007 12:37:35 PMTabitha DialOn this, the first day in a week that I haven't had at least one nap by this time of day (it's 3 p.m. here and I slept in this morning until 9 and that made a big difference), I have painted for about three hours. Two of those hours were spent suited up. A fellow writer who is enjoying his re...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Blogs/Archive/Art/Blog~312472.aspx5/23/2007 1:17:34 PMTabitha DialI expected my first visit to the new wing at the Denver Art Museum with my friend May 12 to inspire me for my writer's residency in Vermont. But I didn't expect it to shape hours of my time here. The museum was a wonderful way to spend my last full morning in Denver. My friend, Xena , ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Art/Blog~308468.aspx5/15/2007 9:58:17 AMTabitha Dial