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benjaminKatie Kingston

Poet
Trinidad, CO

www.katiekingston.com

Katie Kingston is the author of three poetry collections: Unwritten Letters, El Rio de las Animas Perdidas en Purgatorio, and In My Dreams Neruda. Her numerous awards include the 2010 W.D Snodgrass Award for Poetic Endeavor and Excellence, the Hunger Mountain Ruth Stone Prize, the Atlanta Review International Publication Prize, and the Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. She has also been awarded residency fellowships at the Anderson Center, Colorado Art Ranch, Harwood Museum, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Jentel, Ucross, Vermont Studios, and Fundación Valparaíso in Mojácar, Spain. Kingston received her MFA in Writing from Vermont College. Currently she lives and writes in Trinidad, Colorado, an area known as the coal fields, located in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range.

About the DIA Project
El Río de Las Animas Perdidas en Purgatorio is the name of a river that flows through Southern Colorado. Two soldiers, Antonio Guitérrez de Umaña and Captain Francisco Leyva de Bonilla, originally from the Iberian Peninsula, led an expedition into this area in 1599 when the area was still a Mexican territory. One legend reports that these two soldiers died on the banks of the river without the last sacrament of Extreme Unction and, according to their religion, were sentenced to suffer in Purgatory. Umaña and Bonilla, whose names translate roughly from Spanish to English as the Human and the Beautiful, represent the fragile interplaybetween humanity and beauty.  The name of the river, often referred to locally as El Purgatorio (Spanish), El Purgatoire (French), or Picketwire (a possible deviation of the French pronunciation by English speakers), suggests the ongoing suffering inherent in the human condition. Although these poems are linked by a geographic sense of place related to the river, they weave through different time spans along the river. Some stem from historical accounts, some relate to present day life, and some juxtapose the two.

 

 


 

  

33 IDEAS!, an exhibit of art, writing and ideas
March 15-June 15, 2010

Denver International Airport

DIA PostcardThis exhibit showcases visual and literary artists associated with Colorado Art Ranch as presenters, artists in residence, or Nomads at one or more Artposia. The artists were selected because they use their passion, skills, knowledge, and talent to ask questions and react to the world around them. The work, in turn, inspires us to ask questions and view the world from different perspectives.

33 IDEAS! is on display at the Ansbacher Hall: The Art of Colorado, on the walkway between the terminal and A Gates before the security screening. The hall is accessible for everyone’s enjoyment.

For more information contact DIA Art Program at
(303) 342-2521 or visit www.flydenver.com/art

 

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