Who: City of Santa Fe Arts Commission
What: Poet Laureate Jon Davis will host “Santa Fe Poets 1,” five local poets reading with the Laureate
When: Sunday, March 24, from
3:00 to 4:30 p.m
Where: The Performance Space at
La Tienda 7 Caliente Road in Eldorado
Information: For more information,
call Jon Davis at 424.2365 or email him at jdavissimo52@gmail.com.
“Santa Fe Poets 1” is
the first of six readings that will take place over the next 15 months at
various venues in and around Santa Fe. Davis will read from a new manuscript and
from his most recent book, Preliminary Report, published by Copper Canyon Press
in 2010. In addition to being Santa Fe’s fourth poet laureate, Davis is director
of the new Low Residency MFA Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts,
where he has taught for 22 years.
The other readers
will be Dana Levin, who teaches at Santa Fe University of Art & Design and
is the author of three books, including “Sky Burial” (Copper Canyon Press,
2011); Gabe Gomez, author of “The Outer Bands” (U. of Notre Dame Press, 2006)
and “Seed Bank” (Mouthfeel Books, 2012); Ungelbah Daniel Davila, author of the
chapbook “Outlaw Neon”, which is forthcoming in Effigies II from Salt Press; and
Deborah Casillas, whose poems have appeared in Ontario Review, Crab Orchard
Review, Prairie Schooner, and North American Review.
Suggested donation of
$2 to support The Performance Space at La Tienda, 7 Caliente Road in Eldorado,
but no one will be turned away.
Established in 2005,
the Poet Laureate program actively promotes poetry and the spoken word as
integral parts of our civic life.
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