Biography
Art Goodtimes attended schools in California, earning a B.A. in English from San Francisco State University (1970), where he also spent a year as a graduate student in Creative Writing.
Currently he’s serving a fourth term on the San Miguel County Board of Commissioners – Colorado’s only Green Party county commissioner. He also is an award-winning member of numerous boards, commissions and committees on the local, regional, state and even national levels. He runs the Telluride Mushroom Festival (1981-present), and is a board member and former president of the Telluride Institute.
Twice director of the Telluride Council for the Arts & Humanities (1980-81, 1995-96), Art has worked as pre-school teacher and director, as well as a freelance writer and journalist/editor and he continues as a weekly columnist (1981-present) for the Telluride Watch. He also publishes columns in several regional and on-line publications (Telluride Inside & Out, Four Corners Free Press, San Juan Almanac)
Art’s been the poetry editor of Twin Peaks (with Sharon Skolnick, San Francisco, 1979), Earth First! Journal (Tucson, 1981-91), Wild Earth (Vermont, 1992-2000), and Talking Gourds (Norwood, 1990-present), as well as writing a weekly poetry column for the Norwood Post, “Looking South to Lone Cone.”
Founder of the annual Talking Gourds earth-festival of poetry (1989-present), he has performed at library and coffeehouse venues all over the Southwest, as well as the Sparrows Poetry Festival, Café Nuba and the Festival of the Imagination. He is part of a performance poetry ensemble, EAR, together with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Elle Metrick.
Art’s latest book is As If the World Really Mattered (La Alameda Press, Albuquerque, 2007), which has received favorable reviews in Bloomsbury Review (Denver) and Poetry Flash (San Francisco).