Reading on Thursday, May 23, 6 p.m. at Collected Works

I'm reading at Collected Works this coming Thursday, May 23, 2013, at 6 p.m.

I'll be reading mostly new work from my Q Ave Press chapbook, Thelonious Sphere, and from my manuscript, Reply All.

I might toss in a translation or two from Iraqi poet Naseer Hassan's book, Dayplaces, that I just finished translating with him.

City of Santa Fe Poet Laureate Jon Davis to Host Poetry Reading at the Performance Space in Eldorado

Photo by Teresa White

On Sunday, March 24, from 3:00 to 4:30 pm, City of Santa Fe Poet Laureate Jon Davis will host “Santa Fe Poets 1,” the first of six readings that will take place over the next fifteen months at various venues in and around Santa Fe. Each reading will feature a different group of five poets reading with the poet laureate.

At this first reading, 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 (9 Caliente Road) but no one will be turned away. For more information, call Jon Davis at 424.2365 or e-mail him at jdavissimo52@gmail.com.

Established in 2005, the Poet Laureate program actively promotes poetry and the spoken word as integral parts of our civic life.

Upcoming Readings

On Thursday, January 24, at 7 pm, I'll read in the Authors Speak Series at the Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos: http://www.losalamosnm.us/library/Pages/AuthorsSpeak.aspx

I'll also be interviewed on KRSN radio at 7:30 AM on Wednesday, January 23.

On Monday, February 4, I'll read at 6 pm at Teatro Paraguas in Santa Fe, before the First Monday open mic that migrated from The Lucky Bean.

News

I have Snow Poems courtesy of the Cut + Paste Society at the Santa Fe Convention Center and the main branch of the Santa Fe Public Library.

Windows all over town are wearing poetry:
http://snowpoemsproject.vermontloghomeforsale.com/locations/

Reading at Drama on Barcelona

 

Christine Trudeau, Jon Davis, Katie Lasley, Byron Aspaas, and Monty Little. Missing from pictures: Sasha LaPointe and Chuck Calabreze. Photos by Christine Trudeau and whoever used Christine's camera to shoot Christine herself.

Poet Laureate Update

Okay, I'm not going to get any less busy, so best to get on with it.

I'll be on the Santa Fe Radio Cafe on KSFR 101.1 FM with Mary-Charlotte on Wednesday morning.

I'll read with students from the Institute of American Indian Arts on Sunday, November 18, at 3 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe. (See my September 22 post for details).

For those of you on the south side of town, I'll be reading at the Institute of American Indian Arts' library at 4 P.M. on Tuesday, November 27: http://iaia.libguides.com/content.php?pid=365747&sid=3306156#11741010

On Sunday, December 2, between 3-5 p.m., I'll be reading as part of the Snow Poems Exhibition & Poetry Storm at the Marji Gallery & Contemporary Projects, 340 Read Street. Go to http://snowpoemsproject.com/opening-ceremony/ for details

It is quite a roster of poets, including two former Santa Fe Poets Laureate:

Arthur Sze
Dana Levin
Elizabeth Jacobson
Jamie Figueroa
Joan Logghe
Jon Davis
Kirsten Mundt
Gabe Gomez
Lauren Camp
Lizabeth Lende
Michelle Laflamme-Childs
Miriam Sagan
Monika Cassel
Nicholas Chiarella
Surya Little
Tara Evonne Trudell

If we get final approval (which we expect), I'll be Director of the new MFA Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts after January 1. Which helps to explain why I won't get any less busy!

I'm currently assembling a group reading to take place in Eldorado. As soon as I know the details, I'll let you know.

Meanwhile, I've got a piece (odd humor, not poetry) up at McSweeney's: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/compare-and-contrast-chris-isaak-and-van-morrison

And short stories at The Saturnalian:
http://www.thesaturnalian.com/2012/06/in-review-my-most-recent-relationship.html
Monkeybicycle:
http://monkeybicycle.net/default/
And Foliate Oak:
http://foliateoak.weebly.com/jon-davis.html

Albuquerque Poet Laureate Hakim Bellamy and I are working on some projects together--some readings and a writing project. So stay, as they used to say when tuning was required, tuned.

The image for this post is a drawing (of me!) done on a napkin by Viet Namese poet Nhã Thuyên. Soon, I'll be working with a group of translators to produce a collection of her poems in English.

Upcoming Readings at The IAIA Library

Two readings coming up at the Institute of American Indian Arts' Library, 83 Avan Nu Po Road, Santa Fe, NM 87508:

Tuesday October 23rd 4pm - Dean Ann Filemyr's two recent books of poetry are: The Healer’s Diary, (Sunstone Press, 2012) and Growing Paradise (LaNana Creek Press, 2011).  She won an Honorable Mention for the poem, Love Enough, in the Robinson Jeffers 2012 Tor House Award. She  contributed a chapter on two traditional sacred female figures of the Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe/Chippewa), entitled, “Nokomis Tibik Giizis and Mindemoya: Grandmother Moon and Old Woman of the Mists,”  in the anthology, Goddesses in World Culture (Praeger, 2011).  She helped edit, White Shell Water Place (Sunstone 2012),  an anthology presenting Native American perspectives on Santa Fe’s 400th anniversary. Ann Filemyr has been the academic dean at IAIA since 2005. 

Tuesday November 27th 4pm - Jon Davis has published six books of poetry, most recently, Preliminary Report (Copper Canyon Press, 2010).  In July of this year, Davis was named Santa Fe's poet laureate, a position he will hold through June 2014.  He has been awarded two NEA Fellowships, a Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, A Lannan Residency, and a Lannan Literary Award. He also writes and publishes short stories and has written screenplays for short films that have screened in a number of film festivals in the U.S. and Canada. Davis has taught in the Creative Writing Program at IAIA since 1990.

Preliminary Report by Jon Davis