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Saturday, September 24
The best things about summer are the long days outside, in a yard, in a park, by a pool, on a patio, in a hammock, or someplace naturific, and having all the daylight in the world to get lost in a good book. The term "summer reading" takes on a vastly different meaning once you're done with school and reading lists, and tends to be synonymous with guilty pleasures. I usually take advantage of the long days and cool nights to tear through the teen novels that more productive seasons push aside.
Exhibit Opening:
With political revolutions currently sweeping many parts of the world, I'm reminded of another revolution that occurred almost a century ago. In the week after Easter in 1916, a revolt in Dublin, Ireland, started. While many people refer to it as the Easter Rising, others refer to it as the Poets' Rebellion, due to the six poets and writers who were its leaders, including Patrick Pearse and James Connolly. It was a different world, where poetry was not merely acknowledged for one month each year.
Thursday, April 14
By all accounts, I was a fairly typical teenager. My extracurricular interests included hanging out at the mall, rock music, babysitting, and Greek tragedy. Huh? Yes, somehow that last one doesn't quite fit, but despite the required can of AquaNet in my purse, I became an avid reader of Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides in high school. While I appreciated all of the plays I encountered, reading Antigone in my senior year left an indelible mark on me. So it's quite exciting that the local theater group, Theaterwork, is performing Jean Anouilh's adaptation of Sophocles's masterpiece. Written in and based on Nazi-occupied France, it is both an update of Antigone and a confirmation that the themes it explores are timeless and universal.
Rather than staging the production in a typical performance space, Antigone will be at the former Tino Griego pool in the same building as the Oliver La Farge Branch Library. The pool itself is the stage, and the audience will sit on the sides. In addition to Theaterwork's core troupe, members of the community have been brought in to perform, design and decorate the set, and compose original music and poetry. The production promises to be as memorable as reading the original in high school for the first time.
I may be a bit heavy-handed by saying that everyone should see Jimmy Santiago Baca at least once in his or her life, but I'll still say it.Jimmy Santiago Baca reading from his latest book:Thus endeth the lesson.
Breaking Bread with the Darkness, Book 1: The Esai Poems
Tuesday, April 5
6:00 PM
Collected Works Bookstore
202 Galisteo St. at Water St.
505-988-4226
Randy Walker Day in Santa Fe
Artist at the Southside Library
Came by to see you guys
Guess you were gone
Papa Max and Lulee
O where did they go?
Mayor David is looking for you.
Rainwater Olla
Sustain woven olla,
Randy Blue and Orange fibers
Sustain cousin Jeremy Walker
Such a talker
A walking encyclopedia
Rainwater Olla
Randy Walker Day in Santa Fe
O-e-she Tokyo Grill Sushi Bar
Came by to see you guys
Guess you were gone
Papa Max and Lulee
Went away to Santa Fe
To see woven olla strung up above
Rainwater Olla
Sustain woven olla
Randy Red and yellow fibers
Sustain cousin Walker
Such a talker
A walking dictionary
Rainwater Olla
“What makes me truly Cuban, is its history, the men and women who handed in their fortune in order to make Cuba a sovereign country. You will find this in poetry from Heredia to Guillén. To be part of that generation consolidates my being.”Known in his country simply as "El Poeta," Pablo Armando Fernández has an enormous reputation and a distinguished career as a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, editor and diplomat. His works have been translated into French, Italian, Polish and English. His 2001 work, Parables: Selected Poems, featured an introduction by Margaret Atwood. He received the Premio Nacional de Literatura in 1996 for lifetime accomplishment, and formerly served as the Cultural Counselor to the Cuban Embassy in London.
A Little Santa Fe Poem
Tuesday, October 19Santa Fe Poet Laureate Joan Logghe and musician Jeremy Bleich offer a poetry performance with a selection of twenty poems from cultures around the world, each accompanied by original music. After the performance, children and their adults will be invited to write a poem.
4:00 pm
Southside Branch Library
6599 Jaguar Drive
955-2828
Joan Logghe has been named the Santa Fe Poet Laureate for 2010 - 2012!
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.
Coinciding with National Poetry Month, the City of Santa Fe is searching for its next Poet Laureate.
April is National Poetry Month. Started by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, it has grown into a celebration involving poets, schools, libraries, bookstores, publishers, readers and listeners. To participate, you can attend a poetry reading, check out books of poetry from the library, or subscribe to Poem-A-Day with your email account.The Book of My Enemy Has Been RemainderedHappy National Poetry Month!
by Clive JamesThe book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am pleased.
In vast quantities it has been remaindered.
Like a van-load of counterfeit that has been seized...
March 17, 2010
