What we’re about
Santa Fe has a mind-boggling number of great poets and writers, known and unknown. This group is a venue for them all. It is the central "bulletin board" for Santa Fe's poetry and prose scene.
As a member you'll receive announcements of book launches, workshops, close readings, poetry festivals, ekphrastic events, open mics, and lots of other activities involving poetry and prose.
People are always asking us what is going on around town and Meetup is a great venue to list the events and strengthen the poetry and writing community. If you know of an event that you don't see listed on here, let us know and we'll get it posted.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Back Porch reading with Lawrence Millman and Coyote Arts Press TICKETED EVENTJules' Poetry Playhouse, Placitas, NM
# Back Porch reading with Lawrence Millman and Coyote Arts Press ticketed event
# Poet and writer Lawrence Millman joins us in person at Jules' Poetry Playhouse Back Porch reading series, followed by conversation, pizza and refreshments.
USE THIS LINK FOR YOUR TICKET!
https://www.poetryplayhouse.com/classes/p/back-porch-reading-conversation-with-lawrence-millman-ticketed-event# Books will be for sale. Exclusive ticketed event in person at Jules' Poetry Playhouse in Placitas, NM with the author and Coyote Arts Press publishers. The price of admission includes pizza from Placitas Pizza, wine, and other refreshments. Walk the Poetry Playhouse labyrinth, and enjoy the view with your hosts Jules Nyquist and John Roche, and Coyote Arts Press. A perfect outdoor setting for Millman’s memoir told in vignettes.
Reading from his latest book: *Outsider: My Boyhood with Thoreau (*Coyote Arts Press). This brief memoir is composed of vignettes that highlight Millman's outsider status, both as someone who loves the outdoors, and as someone who is "outside any known social group … unless you regard mushrooms, insects, or earthworms as social groups."
Writer-ethnographer-mycologist Lawrence Millman has made over 40 trips and expeditions to the Arctic and Subarctic. His twenty-seven books include such titles as Last Places, Northern Latitudes, A Kayak Full of Ghosts, Our Like Will Not Be There Again, Hiking to Siberia, Lost in the Arctic, At the End of the World, The Book of Origins, and Fungipedia, and the forthcoming Outsider: My Boyhood with Thoreau. He has written for Smithsonian, National Geographic, Outside, Atlantic Monthly, and The Sunday Times (London). He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Lawrence will also have copies of Goodbye Ice: Arctic Poems. Coyote Arts Press is based in Albuquerque and we welcome Lawrence as he travels on his book tour with a special stop at Jules’ Poetry Playhouse.
- Free generative poetry workshop with Santa Fe Poet Laureate Tommy ArchuletaNeeds location
| Free generative poetry workshop with Santa Fe Poet Laureate Tommy Archuleta, Sunday, April 28
Join us in the Community Gallery from 11:00-1:00 on Sunday, April 28 to read and write with Tommy Archuleta. All ages and skill levels welcome!
We'll provide coffee and donuts, you bring your favorite writing materials.
Free city garage parking validation will be available.
Please RSVP to artsandculture@santafenm.gov so we know how many people (and donuts) to expect.
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|| Want to get in touch with the City Historian or Poet Laureate? |
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|| Want to invite the City Historian or Poet Laureate to your program or event? You can now fill out a simple request form on the Arts & Culture Department's website. For the City Historian, click here. For the Poet Laureate, click here.
And if you want to hear them in conversation together, Andrew Lovato interviewed Tommy Archuleta on his weekly KSFR radio show "Our Santa Fe." Take a listen here: https://www.ksfr.org/show/our-santa-fe/2024-04-05/04-04-2024 |
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| - Free the Speech Open Mic Night!Needs location
Come join us at Travelbug on April 28th at 5 p.m. for open mic night. All original short stories, poems, spoken word, and flash fiction are welcome. As long as you wrote it, you can read it. And feel free to get creative with your topic. That's what free speech is all about, right?
Don't want to read? Join us anyway—grab a drink and a snack, enjoy some story-telling, and cheer your fellow writers on. Please email j.g.e.wagner@gmail.com to sign up to read or sign up early the night of. Please limit your pieces to 6-7 minutes max. Looking forward to seeing you all there.
Free the Speech Open Mic Night!
https://www.meetup.com/santa-fe-social-kooks-and-curious-minds/events/300115492/
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