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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.
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Karen Petersen and Mary Strong Jackson Read Poetry at Teatro Paraguas
Location not specified yetKaren Petersen and Mary Strong Jackson Read Poetry at Teatro Paraguas
WHAT: Poetry Reading with Karen Petersen and Mary Strong Jackson
WHEN: Sunday October 18, 2026 at 5:00 p.m.
WHERE: Teatro Paraguas, 3205m Calle Marie, Santa Fe
TICKETS: FreeTeatro Paraguas is pleased to present a poetry reading with two renowned poets in Santa Fe: Karen Petersen and Mary Strong Jackson. The reading will take place on Sunday, October 18, 2026 at 5:00m p.m. Admission is free.
Karen Petersen will be reading from her three award-winning chapbooks, in addition to a selection from her upcoming first volume out later this year, The Habits of a Landscape, published by Kelsay Books.
Karen Petersen has published poetry, short stories, and flash both nationally and internationally. A former foreign correspondent, in this last decade she has been fiercely devoted to a literary life. Her poems have been translated into Persian and Spanish, and she has been nominated for numerous prizes, including ten Pushcarts, and long-listed for the UK's international Bridport Prize, Forward Prize, and Australia's Peter Porter Prize. In 2023, her chapbook, "Trembling," published by Kelsay Books, won the national Wil Mills Award, judged by Annie Finch, and her poem, "The Price of Love," was nominated for Best of the Net. New work is in The Wallace Stevens Journal, A New Ulster, and The Cimarron Review. Her chapbook, "Wamponomon: The Place of Shells," was released in October 2024, and named a finalist in the SW Book Design Awards. Her latest chapbook, "Influences: The Irish Poems," was released September 2025. More information can be found at: karenpetersenwriter.com
Mary Strong Jackson’s full-length book of poetry, A Pear-Shaped World, was published in May of 2025 by Finishing Line Press. El Palacio, a Magazine of Art, History, and Culture of the Southwest published her poem, “The Backbone of Us” in the Spring 2022, Vol. 127. The poem was chosen by the Santa Fe Poet Laureate, Darryl Wellington. S. Jackson’s chapbook titles are Dreaming in Grief, Finishing Line Press, 2022, From Other Tongues, 2017, Witnesses, 2011, and No Buried Dogs, 2006, Foothills Publishing, Clippings Pudding House Publications, 1995. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies in the United States and England. S. Jackson facilitated a writing group for 4 years at the Life Link psycho/social rehabilitation program where she worked in Santa Fe, NM. She brought poetry to the men’s and women’s shelters in Santa Fe for 2 years.. Mary Strong Jackson resides near Santa Fe, NM.
contact: Argos MacCallum <argos@teatroparaguas.org> 505-365-9459
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Spiritual Poetry Meetup
·OnlineOnlineWe meet online the third Sunday of every month from 5:00-7:00pm Mountain Time to read and discuss spiritual poetry and wisdom quotes, and to share thoughts, feelings and insights inspired by the readings. About 25 people attend from several groups - we'd love to hear from you what poem or quote is meaningful to you - Do you love Rumi, Rilke, Joy Harjo, Hafiz, Mary Oliver, Alice Walker, Ryokan, Thomas Merton, Mirabai, Pablo Neruda, Hildegard of Bingen, Wendell Berry, Nâzım Hikmet, Thich Nhat Hanh or...? Every meetup is different, depending on what you choose to read and discuss. Let's learn from each other as we share these invitations to what is higher and deeper.
All paths and views are welcome -- this is an open and welcoming space where we get to know others who share a love for spiritual poetry and wisdom quotes, and for that which connects us with a deeper life, regardless of spiritual path or personal history. One note - we appreciate the poets among us, but we don't read our own work.
RSVPs close three hours before the meetup begins (2:00pm Mountain Time), so please make sure to RSVP in advance. You must be logged in on Zoom to join the meeting, and a password is required. The password will be sent by Meetup message or email as we get closer to the date. Please make sure your email settings for this group have email updates turned on so you can receive the email. For information on how to adjust your email settings click here. If you haven't received the login details by early the day of the meetup, please let me know.
Take-Home Poetry Packs are available for free download at https://intrinsicheart.com under the "Poetry & More" tab. (These are a gift for enjoyment, not a prescription for readings!) To see lists of readings from past Spiritual Poetry Meetups, go to https://intrinsicheart.com/category/spiritual-poetry-meetup-reading/
We hope you can join us!
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Tuesday Poetry Practice
·OnlineOnlineTuesday Poetry Practice: a weekly online drop-in community of poetry and meditation practioners.
Poetry and meditation both rely on being present, awake, aware. Please join fellow poetry and meditation practitioners Tuesdays from 11 a.m.-noon MST as we explore how the practices of poetry and meditation can complement each other. Each week we will do a grounding meditation, study a relevant poem, write a new poem from a prompt and share our poems in a supportive, accepting community.
To join the group, click here or on the link below.
Tuesday Poetry Practice is offered on a pay-what-you-can basis. Everyone is welcome and donations are gratefully received through my PayPal account.
Past events
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