On October 29, 2006, co-founders Lisa Max Zimet and Kim Nuzzo, poet and principal member of the Hudson Reed Ensemble, held the first Poetry Night at Zélé Café in Aspen, Colorado. The modest venue has drawn standing room only attendance since the inception of the once-a-month poetry sessions – sessions consisting of open mic, a featured poet and a modified slam. It quickly became clear that gathering monthly was not sufficient to meet the needs of local poets.

Aspen Poets’ Society, or more accurately, aspenpoetsociety.com, was born of the desire to provide an electronic site for poets to share their original works with lovers of the written word – fellow poets and non-poets alike. A place where one can go any time of day or night, seven days a week, 24 hours a day. A place that knows no geographic boundaries.

In time, the website, now in its nascent stage, will provide many services and features to its members. The main thrust is the forum created by aspenpoetsociety.com members – a means of responding to one another’s poems, of sharing the impact of the written word. In addition, the website will serve as a strong resource listing poetry events on the local to the international level, publication opportunities, links to top rated university graduate programs in literature, and a monthly "Sidewalk Poem" which members will collectively create to be preserved and archived on the site. There will be information about newly published poetry books and reviews as well as links for purchasing books.

In addition to a regular membership, there will be a young poets membership allowing under the age of 18 years to participate and encouraging the usage of the website in grade schools, in middle schools, in high schools and by those students being home schooled.

The potential for offering members a stage for their writing and a place to enhance their lives as poets is unlimited. Suggestions for how the website can best serve its members are welcome at any time.

This is your website.