Colorado Springs Poet Explores Life’s Landscape Of Longing And Belonging

Janice Gould is the voice of an outsider when she writes with a tender intimacy of how she felt different as a teenager. Then she goes deep into the connection of family, a family standing at the “precipice of mortality” as their transgender father dies. Her latest book of poetry, “The Force of Gratitude,” is a journey through her life and love.

Gould teaches women’s and ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She’s a panelist at this weekend’s  Zee-Jaipur Literature Festival in Boulder.

Listen to her conversation with Colorado Matters host Ryan Warner at cprnews.org

Poet Janice Gould