About:
Located in the heart of downtown Fruita, Colorado, Lithic Bookstore & Gallery offers a fantastic selection of books, art and other curiosities. We regularly host literary readings, theater, lectures, workshops and live music.

Hours:
Tuesday-Saturday 10am-6pm
Sunday 10am-2pm

Address:
138 S. Park Square #202
Fruita, CO 81521

Phone:
(970) 858-3636

Poetry of the Grand Canyon
a Frank Waters Foundation lecture by Rick Kempa
Thursday, February 8th, 2024 at 7pm

The vast region called Grand Canyon, where silence reigns, space expands, and deep time shows itself, resists all efforts to capture it in language. At the same time, for many who pause at the canyon’s rim or run its rapids or explore its rugged backcountry, the feelings and thoughts that the place provokes seek their outlet in words. In this multimedia presentation, Rick Kempa will share the best of these efforts by poets speaking from a range of perspectives, both Native American and Anglo, historic and contemporary, to make their encounter with Grand Canyon real and memorable.

Rick Kempa has been hiking in and writing about the Grand Canyon since 1974. He has served as Grand Canyon Artist-in-Residence on both the South and North Rims, and has edited two canyon-centered collections, On Foot: Grand Canyon Backpacking Stories (Vishnu Temple Press, 2014) and, with Peter Anderson, Going Down Grand: Poems from the Canyon (Lithic Press 2015).  His most recent book of poems is Too Vast for Sleep (Littoral Press, 2020). Truths of the Trail, a collection of his short prose pieces about the backpacking life, will be published this spring. Rick is the founding editor of the literary journal Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry.

We now have Lithic Bookstore t-shirts! (Bobby Zimmerman approved)