Floating Words Poetry presents Tina Carlson & Barbara Rockman

Come early for free limited edition chapbook Girls in Dirt & tickets for free book raffle.

Tina Carlson is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: Ground, Wind, This Body; We Are Meant to Carry Water, a collaboration with 2 other NM poets; and A Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery which won first place in the 2024 NM/AZ book award for poetry. Her chapbook, Obsidian was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2024. Her essay, Mothers and Manta Rays, won second prize for non-fiction at Tucson’s Festival of Books 2025. She is an editor of the online journals Unbroken and Hot Flash Literary. She spent her childhood in Colorado playing in the dirt and climbing cottonwood trees.

Barbara Rockman is the author of Sting and Nest, winner of the NM-AZ Book Award and to cleave, winner of the National Press Women Book Prize and Finalist for the International Book Award. A new collection, Night said, which explores faith, ancestry and belonging in the natural world, will be released from UNM Press, fall, 2026.
Since 1998, Barbara has organized several Santa Fe reading series and taught poetry at Santa Fe Community College and in community workshops. She has brought poetry to Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families, to Outside-In Arts’ participants living with mental illness and, currently, with the Voice Project, inviting the unhoused to share their stories through poetry, prose, and art.
She spent her childhood in Massachusetts farmland climbing apple, chestnut and willow trees when not hiding in a hole dug deep to hold two girls. She has called northern New Mexico her home for over 40 years.

Starting in July we are moving to Vital Spaces at 3140 Cerrillos--this is our last event at Entropy!

Follow us @ floatingwordspoetry.com & instagram.com/floatingwordspoetry Join our low-volume mailing list: floatingwordspoetry@gmail.com Poetry + Community = Floating Words