Our New Poet Laureate!

Joan Logghe has been named the Santa Fe Poet Laureate for 2010 - 2012!

As an inauguration, a Passing of the Pencil Ceremony will take place on Monday, July 19 at 7:00 PM on the Santa Fe Plaza Bandstand. After the legendary bass player Freebo plays, there will be a passing of a giant yellow pencil named FUTURE, from the outgoing Poet Laureate Valerie Martínez to Joan Logghe. Each poet will read one poem to celebrate poetry and the Poet Laureate position. FUTURE, the honorary pencil, is a sculpture by Kathleen McCloud, an artist with Ernesto Mayans Gallery of Canyon Road. The public is invited to attend the Bandstand performances and to honor the Poets Laureate of Santa Fe.

Joan Logghe works at poetry in community, off the academic grid in La Puebla, New Mexico, where she and her husband, Michael, raised three children and built three houses. Her books include What Makes a Woman Beautiful, Twenty Years in Bed with the Same Man, Sofia, and Rice. More information is available on her website.

The Poet Laureate program is designed to enhance the presence of the literary arts in Santa Fe and create a focal point for the expression of Santa Fe’s culture through the literary arts. More readings and events are being planned, so stay tuned!