How much: Free More info: A link to register as an audience member will be available at online soon. Student participants will be selected via a lottery and all interested middle and high school poets will be able to sign up at aspenwords.org . Aspen Words’ Youth Poetry Project has in recent years become a rite of spring for creative young people in the Roaring Fork Valley — a two-week crucible of workshops and writing followed by a public performance. This year is different, as all things are different amid the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic. The program will take place virtually, but will also expand to run for more than three weeks of instruction and mentoring.