Marlow Brooks

Blue Dragon

Marlow Brooks is a calligrapher, painter, and Five Element acupuncturist and healer. After establishing herself as a painter, she began her studies of Asian calligraphy in 1981, training with Kobun Otogawa Roshi, and others. She teaches the Psychology of the Five Elements, Calligraphy, and Contemplative Arts at Naropa University and conducts private classes in calligraphy and healing. Her calligraphy has traveled since 2003 to exhibitions in China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, around the United States, and Canada. She received an outstanding award for calligraphy in Shanghai. She is a featured artist in the documentary Chinese Calligraphy in 5000 Years, which aired on CCTV throughout China, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Marlow has recently published her own book, The Way Through.

To view more about her book or artwork, please visit http://www.marlowbrooks.com.

Dorothy Gilbert

Dorothy Gilbert‘s poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, the Iowa Review, Southern Lights:PEN South Anthology, the online journals Tattoo Highway and Persimmon Tree, and elsewhere. Her verse translation of the first known Arthurian romance, Erec and Enide, by the twelfth-century French writer Chretien de Troyes, won a Columbia University Translation Center Award; her new book, Marie de France: Poetry: A Norton Critical Edition, will be published in June. Parts of it have appeared in the current edition of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. Dorothy Gilbert lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Barbara Shark

“Ka Lae”

“Lower Greeter Falls,” ’72

“On Jenny Lake,” 1989

“Underwater Kahaku’u”

I make drawings and paintings about the way things and people look — their personal, metaphoric and art historical connotations. With curiosity and affection, I depict likeness and have discovered that in investigating my subjects I find beauty and a connection to a vast pool of human stories. My work was exhibited in 2010 at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in a solo show, Moments In Between and can be viewed at http://www.barbarashark.com

My work is in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, the Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND, Kaiser Permanente, Boulder and Denver, CO and University Hospital, Denver, CO.

Jane Wodening

Jane Wodening is the author of: Living Up There; The Lady Orangutan and Other Stories; From the Book of Legends; Lump Gulch Tales; The Inside Story; Mountain Woman Tales; First Presence; and other books on the subjects of wilderness and wildness, nature and human nature, living in solitude, animals, and understanding things that happen. She has been anthologized and serialized. After her 30-years marriage to filmmaker Stan Brakhage, she lived alone for ten years at an altitude of 10,000 feet with no running water or electricity. She lives now in Denver in a little house with an edible garden in back.