Poetry. Art Goodtimes is legendary along the Sourthern Rockies as poet, performer, ritualist, Rainbow Tribe and Green Party activist. Deep ecologist Dolores LaChapelle describes him as part of the bardic tradition "which shows us how nature and human consciousness are but different aspects of one consciousness. Bards put mind and body together within the whole of nature." Lyrical but root essential, Goodtimes speaks as one of the ancient storytellers--wise and sly. These poems could have been sung underground in the caves of Lascaux or atop a rock in a sacred grove. He has served as poet-in-residence for the annual Telluride Mushroom Festival for 25 years and continues as founder/director of the annual Talking Gourds poetrygatherings.

Poet, journalist, and third-term Green county commissioner, Art Goodtimes is a former poetry editor for Earth First! Journal and Wild Earth. He served as poet-in-residence for the annual Telluride Mushroom Festival for twenty-five years and continues as founder/director of the annual Talking Gourds poetry gatherings. He lives near Norwood on Wright's Mesa at the western edge of the San Juan with his wife and children.