RIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2010!
7 PM at Mabel Dodge Luhan House, 240 Morada Lane

$8 and &6/members/seniors/students

Mirabai Starr – writes fiction, creative non-fiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature.  She teaches Philosophy and World Religions at the UNM-Taos and teaches and speaks widely on contemplative practice and grief and loss.  Mirabai has received critical acclaim for her revolutionary new translations of Dark Night of the Soul by sixteenth century Spanish mystic, St. John of the Cross and The Interior Castle and The Book of My Life, by St. Teresa of Avila, as well as the 6-volume Sounds True series, “Devotions, Prayers & Living Wisdom.” She will be reading from her new translations of the love poems of John of the Cross & Teresa of Avila, an excerpt from a personal essay about her husband, and a selection from her memoir-in-progress.

Sean Murphy – has published three novels (The Finished Man, The Hope Valley Hubcap King, The Time of New Weather), a nonfiction book on Zen practice (One Bird, One Stone) and four plays.  He teaches creative writing and literature at UNM-Taos and leads writing workshops around the country.  He also co-taught with Natalie Goldberg (author of Writing Down the Bones) in her series of writing and meditation seminars. Sean’s latest novel, The Time of New Weather, (January, 2005) from which he will be reading was awarded First Place for Best Novel in the National Press Women Communications Awards.

Jenny Bird – will play selections from her newest CD, Mystics Muse, (2009). Jenny has been called “the most passionate performer in the new folk/rock genre.”  For the last 20 years she’s toured widely in the US, Canada, and Europe and also spends time in her hometown of Taos where she records and teaches music.