FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010 – 7 PM
TAOS CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 133 Paseo del Pueblo Sur
THIS IS A FREE EVENT!
Don’t miss this VERY SPECIAL evening hosted by local poet and celebrity Anne MacNaughton, and featuring talented YOUNG poets and writers from the Taos Community!!
ANNE MACNAUGHTON Co-founded SOMOS along with twelve others in 1982. She also established The Taos Poetry Circus the same year, and served as the Project Director of the Poetry Education Project from 1993 -2003. MacNaughton teaches creative writing with a performance focus in the area schools and universities. Her work has been collected in many anthologies, as well as in numerous literary journals, magazines, and periodicals.
This event will featur a growing list of students from area high schools including EMMA SIMS and SETH FUGMAN from Vista Grande High school, LEYTON CASSIDY from Moreno Valley High School, and the Taos High School Slam Poetry Team with OLIVIA ROMO, MAGGIE MANNING, AILI SEILER, TUCKER WHITNEY, ROBBIE DEBURLO and QUINN DRAY. More students to be added.
Here’s a sample of the talented voices you’ll enjoy:
Anastasia Fever: I am a seventeen year old activist. You might recognize me as that small woman with a big mouth and a mane of brown hair who always carries a book. My passions begin with intellect, but roar fully alive in storytelling. I write to incite and to bear witness; to let my voice give power to things that cannot speak. I am a long time member of the Taos community—a student, poet, actress, and co-host on KTAO’s weekly program “Listen Up.” I believe in education, compassion, and the Earth and have a firm conviction in the strength of the human soul.
My name is Maggie Carson, and I’m 15 years old, which, in my opinion, is the prime of one’s life. You’re old enough to know that you probably won’t amount to much, and you’re young enough to not be too disturbed by that fact. As far as passions and keen interests go, I’m verging on enthusiasm about haphazard immaturity, psycho-babbling punk rockers that sing accurately about adolescent angst, pointing out the absurd, and making bedraggled people smile. I write, and make art in general, in an attempt to say something cynical about life… and poke fun. I’m torn in half by the need to annoy the masses and to amuse them. I amuse myself, and I hope I amuse you, but, if I don’t, and you’re just slightly peeved when you think of me and my brand of literature, in the same way you’re slightly peeved when you think about the kids that lean against walls, dragging on cigarettes that they don’t inhale, and spitting whenever anyone over 25 years old and under 150 pounds walks by, that’s okay, because bothering people is just as fun as making them laugh.