In the final installment of their Amazing Authors series, Pine River Library is pleased to announce that author, poet and water rights activist Greg Hobbs speak at the library from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, May 16.
Hobbs lives in Denver but spends much of his free time in Southwest Colorado. In his wide-reaching career, he practiced environmental, transportation, land use and water law for more than 20 years before becoming a Colorado Supreme Court Justice from 1996-2015.
Because of his water expertise, Hobbs has authored more than 250 majority opinions for the court in both civil and criminal cases. He currently serves as Senior Water Judge for the Colorado courts, mediating our state's controversial water rights cases.
In addition to his Supreme Court opinions, Hobbs has also written several works of poetry and prose including In Praise of Fair Colorado: The Practice of Poetry, History and Judging (2004) and Colorado Mother of Rivers, Water Poems (2005), which contains a wide array of primary sources, poems, textual references and vignettes of personal experiences that he has enjoyed as a student of the Navajo and American narratives of the West. Living the Four Corners: Colorado, Centennial State at the Headwaters (2010) collects four decades of the author's water poetry; a number of these poems flow from hikes with his brother, Will Hobbs, the young adult author, into the San Juan Mountains of Southwestern Colorado.
