“Inauguration”
In times like this election year, it’s easy to feel powerless. This poem is a reminder of the power each one of us holds.
About Brice Maiurro
Brice Maiurro is a poet, storyteller, artist, and community organizer from Lakewood, Colorado. He is a cofounder of the nationwide howling movement, where in early 2020, thousands of people in all fifty states and over one-hundred countries went outside every night at 8pm to howl. For this, he was featured by the BBC and NPR. He is the author of four collections of poetry: The Heart is an Undertaker Bee, Clown Singing Opera, Stupid Flowers and Hero Victim Villain. He has released two EPs: Cheesman Park Session with musician Logan Chan (2023) and Everything is on Fire with musician Chadzilla Johnson (2019). He has told stories with Liminal, The Narrators, Ignite Denver and Unsent. He is the Editor-in-Chief of South Broadway Press, and worked formerly as the Founding Editor of Punch Drunk Press and the Poetry Editor for Suspect Press. His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
He is the cofounder of the five-year-strong event Punketry, hosted out of Mutiny Information Cafe, as well as the founder of the Mutiny Poetry Series and the Boulder Block Slam. He has collaborated on events with Jaipur Literary Festival, Arbor Institute, Denver Food Rescue, and with the Village Institute, a live/learn/work center for immigrants and refugees in Aurora, Colorado.
Brice’s poems have appeared in Tabula Rasa Review, Twenty Bellows, Tilt West, Low Orbit, Boulder Weekly, Poets Reading the News, Suspect Press, and The Denver Post. He has featured with Headroom Sessions, Jaipur Literary Festival, Fountainverse Literary Festival, Colorado Poetry Rodeo, F-Bomb, Mercury Cafe Sunday Night Slam and at Denver City Council.
Recently, Brice has began to offer workshops, including “Someday I’ll Love the Poem”, a poetry workshop on the ongoing process of learning to love yourself. He facilitated this workshop at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in 2021. If you are interested in future workshopping opportunities, you can find more info here.
In 2019, he was recognized by Westword as a Colorado Creative for his contributions to the Colorado arts community. He is currently serving as the Poet Laureate of Blue Dime Cabaret.
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