On Friday, May 30, 2014, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., City of
Santa Fe Poet Laureate Jon Davis will host “Santa Fe Poets 5,” the fifth of six
group readings, the last of which will take place in June. Each reading will
feature a different group of five poets reading with the poet laureate. The May reading will take place at the New Mexico History Museum in conjunction with the exhibit Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography. The event is free.
At this reading, Davis will read from Reply All, 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 Low Residency MFA Program at the Institute of American
Indian Arts, where he has taught for 23 years.
The other poets reading in Santa Fe Poets 5:
Chee Brossy is a poet, fiction writer, and journalist
living in Santa Fe. He is Diné, originally from Lukachukai, Arizona. He is currently studying fiction writing
in the Institute of American Indian Arts’ MFA program. He received both
undergraduate and graduate Truman Capote Scholarships and has poems in recent
issues of Taos Journal of Poetry &
Art, Sentence, and the Denver Quarterly.
Joan Logghe was Poet Laureate of Santa Fe from 2010-2012. She
has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Witter Bynner
Foundation for Poetry Grants, a Mabel Dodge Luhan Internship, and a Barbara
Deming/Money for Women grant. Her books include What Makes a Woman Beautiful, Twenty Years in Bed with the Same Man, Sofia, Rice,
and The Singing Bowl (UNM Press).
With Renée Gregorio and Miriam Sagan she is a founder of Tres Chicas
Books.
The author of a novel and five books of poetry, Carol Moldaw
is a recipient of a Lannan Foundation Writer’s Residency, an NEA Creative
Writing Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize. Moldaw has taught for many writing
conferences and university programs, including Stonecoast, the University of
Southern Maine’s low residency M.F.A. program, and the M.F.A. program at Naropa
University.
Henry Shukman is a poet, fiction writer, and
travel writer. His first poetry collection, In
Dr No's Garden, won the Jerwood Aldeburgh Poetry Prize and was selected as Book
of the Year by both The London Times and The Guardian. His
poems have appeared in the New Republic,
The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books. His latest book of poetry is Archangel published by Random House in
the United Kingdom.
Farren Stanley is a creative non-fiction writer and poet who
teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is a former editor of Black Warrior Review and has had work
published by New Delta Review, elimae,
RealPoetik, Marginalia, Caketrain, H_NGM_N,
and Greying Ghost Press.
The New Mexico History Museum
istory MuseumHist is located at 113 Lincoln Street in Santa Fe. 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.
