Featured poets at Altars, altars, everywhere
On Sunday, March 23rd, 2025, Denver poet, Sarah LaRue, is offering an opportunity for you to share a very special afternoon with some poems from her new collection, Altars, altars, everywhere, at Quince Coffee House.
This is the poet’s third collection, and a genuine pleasure to peruse.
Because she’s a very community-minded person, she’s chosen to present her work with the collaboration of five other Denver poets. It’ll be a chance for you to widen your poetry circle and enjoy time in the wonderful space that is Quince Coffee House.
Keep scrolling to read about these poets, in order of their appearance at the event!
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Kaitlynn
Kaitlynn Engel (she/her) is the founder of The Scribblers Collective and Club Facilitator of The Scribbling Club. She’s a poet, designer, tinkerer of stories, and community-builder.
Her first collection of poems and short stories, Blood spots from fair fights (2021) is the follow up to a print collaborative series, After All That (2017), and her next collection is rumored to be in the works for release later this year.
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Sarah
Sarah LaRue (she/her) is a queer, diasporic Jewish witch poet who writes from Denver, Colorado. She enjoys all kinds of weather, and long consensual hugs.
She has been published in Listen to Your Skin, Stain'd Arts, and South Broadway Ghost Society publications, and her work has been featured by the University of Washington's Whiteley Center. She has shouted poetry from her Cap Hill balcony, and whispers to her demons in the night.
Sarah has self-published three books of poetry, I'll just hide until it's perfect (2018), Tend (2020), and, of course, Altars, altars, everywhere (2025).
Follow Stina on Instagram! @listen2yourskin
Stina
Stina French is a writer, editor, book coach, ghostwriter, publisher, and ex-professor. They are co-founder of Listen To Your Skin Press and the associated event (every last Sunday via Zoom). Find it on Facebook or IG, @listen2yourskin.
They lead writing workshops focused on generative and somatic exercises, and their own work deals with sexuality, healing, generational trauma, and Appalachian queer identity in poetry, magic-realist prose, and flash memoir. They wear welts from the Bible Belt and their work has appeared in Manifest Station, Heavy Feather Review, and Grimoire, among others.
Look for their press’s first two books, Listen To Your Skin: An Anthology Of Queer and Self-Love (Feb. 2024) and Take The Fruit: Anthology Of Religious Trauma (Dec. 2024).
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Cory
Cory Phare has been many things—a nerd, punk rocker, short-order cook, radio DJ, poetry MFA dropout, and marketing professional, to name a few. A common element throughout, however, has been his obsession with words, ever since his debut novella, The Day the Tooth Fairy Stood In for the Easter Bunny (1987, self-published).
After a stint as a touring musician, Cory followed the well-trodden path of moving to Colorado, growing a beard, and picking up an acoustic guitar. It's been a transformative dozen years of Rocky Mountain High Times, but the road is taking him back to his hometown of Marquette this summer, in Michigan's beautiful Upper Peninsula—but not before he releases a new EP this spring.
Follow Bethany on Instagram! @beatnikbetty
Bethany
Bethany Moore is a poet, storyteller, and witchcraft practitioner whose work explores themes of alchemy, ritual, and magic. She has self-published three poetry collections—Weather Magick, Crying Spells, and The Cicada and the Firefly—as well as A Witch’s Tale: The Taming of a Daemon, a dark fairytale. Her spoken word album, Ritual Howling, brings her evocative verses to life through haunting narration.
Beyond her literary pursuits, Bethany has built a career in nonprofit activism and multimedia communications, including over a decade in the cannabis industry. She is also active in the pinball community and is a sought-after Tarot card reader.
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Matthew
Matthew Mongelia (he/him) is a writer of many stripes. Primarily focusing on fiction and journalism, Matt has also been caught moonlighting as a poet, musician, graphic novelist, and a featured fictional presenter for Meekling Press' Lectures series.
He is a contributor to the comic series Dark Beach (out now from Behemoth Comics), and is working on his first novel. He received his MFA in Fiction and Poetry from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012.