Tag: Brook Bhagat

Event Recap: PPSC Authors and Colorado Poet Laureate

May 21, 2025

A lovely time was had by all at the literary reading and grand opening of the Pikes Peak State College Authors Collection, a special collection in the college library of books by PPSC students, staff, and faculty. Nearby Universe members Brook Bhagat and M.R. Hyde were honored to read alongside Colorado Poet Laureate Bobby LeFebre … More Event Recap: PPSC Authors and Colorado Poet Laureate

Double Phoenix Rising Friday, April 25: The Triumphant Return of the PPSC Authors Collection and Colorado Poet Laureate Emeritus Bobby LeFebre

April 16, 2025

The first phoenix is the PPSC Authors Collection, a sparkly brainchild that came to Brook Bhagat seven years ago in the stellar nursery of the Nearby Universe, the employee writers’ group she had just created at Pikes Peak State College. The collection would feature not only faculty writers, like other universities, but also staff, making … More Double Phoenix Rising Friday, April 25: The Triumphant Return of the PPSC Authors Collection and Colorado Poet Laureate Emeritus Bobby LeFebre

Heart the Size of a Car published on A Story in 100 Words- Brook Bhagat

April 16, 2025

Brook Bhagat began this 100-word prose poem on a sticky note. She revised it to become a Nearby Universe email invitation; she revised it again before sending it out. Then she practiced it to read at the Spring Reading, planning a palm-to-podium for the boom boom boom. Yesterday, A Story in 100 Words got back … More Heart the Size of a Car published on A Story in 100 Words- Brook Bhagat

Fire, Beauty, and Advocacy: 2025 PPSC Spring Reading feat. Jozer Guerrero Flies and Sings

April 14, 2025

Las canciones están vivas! After a right-on-time Know Your Rights and Advocacy workshop and refreshments courtesy of Student Experience and Equity and Latino Alliance, the Spring Reading was alive and kicking in three languages at once, thanks to our sign language interpreters and real-time Spanish captions. Several PPSC poets and writers continued the advocacy theme, … More Fire, Beauty, and Advocacy: 2025 PPSC Spring Reading feat. Jozer Guerrero Flies and Sings

The Creative Writing Program and Latino Alliance present Spring Reading 2025: The Nearby Universe, Students, Faculty, and Colorado Poet Laureate Bobby LeFebre

February 18, 2025

The Creative Writing Program Visiting Writers’ Series and Latino Alliance are thrilled to welcome Colorado Poet Laureate Emeritus Bobby LeFebre to PPSC on Thursday, March 20, at the Downtown Campus’s Studio West, 22 North Sierra Madre St. in Colorado Springs, for a multicultural night of poetry and prose. The evening begins with a Know Your … More The Creative Writing Program and Latino Alliance present Spring Reading 2025: The Nearby Universe, Students, Faculty, and Colorado Poet Laureate Bobby LeFebre

Brook Bhagat’s “Ghazal on Fire”: Finalist for Orison Spiritual Literature Award 2024

December 15, 2024

Brook Bhagat is proud to share that her poem, “Ghazal on Fire,” was selected as one of five finalists for the 2024 Orison Spiritual Literature Award in Poetry. “I have never been drawn to poetic forms of any kind,” she said. “They always felt like rules. But ghazals are different—so difficult and strange that they … More Brook Bhagat’s “Ghazal on Fire”: Finalist for Orison Spiritual Literature Award 2024

Brook Bhagat featured in new anthology from Unsolicited Press: Pen and Pulse released Nov 1

November 12, 2024

Brook Bhagat is thrilled to announce the release of Pen and Pulse, a new anthology on writing craft that features “Cracking Collarbone Jones,” the true love story between herself, her beloved, and India, which began with a hunk of clay in an empty sculpture studio in New York. The threads from beyond that wind through art … More Brook Bhagat featured in new anthology from Unsolicited Press: Pen and Pulse released Nov 1