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Author: July 9, 2010 - Poets Arthur Sze and his wife Carol Moldaw from Santa Fe (Arthur and Carol are well known in the poet circles in New Mexico and beyond and have been mentors to fine poets in the area and at IAIA in Santa Fe.
Rane Gallery
214 Ledoux St. Taos, NM
7:30 PM
Admission: $8
$6 for SOMOS members/seniors
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The SOMOS Eleventh Annual Taos Storytelling Festival will be held on Saturday, October 16 at the TCA, Taos Center for the Arts, 133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos. Once again we’re offering an impressive lineup of tellers spinning their tales in concerts, children stories, a workshop, a story swap and in visits to our local schools.
The New Mexico State Library and Centennial planners are accepting nominations for four honorary positions associated with the commemoration of New Mexico’s hundred years of statehood – Poet, Storyteller, Author and Children’s Author.
Nominations may be submitted by individual New Mexico residents or representatives of organizations in New Mexico and may include self-nominations. The deadline for submissions is June 23, 2010. The individuals selected will be announced at a ceremony in the fall of 2010. Those interested in nominating can visit www.nmstatelibrary.org and click on Centennial Nominations (in the left-side menu) for complete guidelines. Applications may be submitted via postal mail or online. Please contact Beth Crist at 505-476-9753 or beth.crist@state.nm.us for more information.
Beth Crist
Library Development Bureau Director
New Mexico State Library
1209 Camino Carlos Rey
Santa Fe, NM 87507
505-476-9753
Curator Jan Smith has put together another stellar series to begin Friday evening, July 9, 2010
Location to be announced
7/9 Poets Arthur Sze and his wife Carol Moldaw from Santa Fe (Arthur and Carol are well known in the poet circles in NM and beyond and have been mentors to fine poets in the area and at IAIA in Santa Fe.
7/15 (Thursday) Jonis Agee, novelist from Nebraska; John Dufresne, novelist from Florida – both are on the faculty of the Taos Summer Writers Conference this year. Both have published extensively!
7/30 Melanie Sumner, novelist from Georgia has a new book just published, “Ghost of Milagro Creek” this fictionalized tale of two star crossed lovers takes place in Taos; Davida Singer, poet from NYC – she teaches at Hunter College and School of Visual Arts, in New York City. She has two volumes of poetry published.
8/6 Natalie Goldberg and Eddie Lewis – fiction
8/13 Summer Wood, novelist will read from her new book “Wrecker,” and James Nave – poetry and short stories
8/20 Tom Ireland – short stories; Tania Casselle from Ranchos de Taos– short stories and travel writing
8/27 Sawnie Morris, poet from Taos and Jon Davis, poet from Santa Fe – Director of the Creative Writing program at IAIA.
This Saturday, June 5, 2010, from 10 am – 1 pm
at the SOMOS Office,
233B Paseo del Pueblo Sur,
next to Enchanted Florist, across from Smiths
Open Hearth Arts is proud to announce the Third Annual Verse~Converse Poetry Festival Taos, NM ~ June 3 -6 www.wix.com/physicalpoet/VC-page Featuring:
- Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, Joe Ray Sandoval, Jessica Helen Lopez, Danny Solis
- Taos Invitational Poetry Championship (TIPC) Professional Bracket
- Introducing the TIPC Youth Team Bracket — a poetry Olympiad
- Sneak Preview of the new film “Spoken Word”
- Workshops
- Open Reading
- and more !!!
Celebrating the theme of Sacred Places- Sacred Words, and creating a meeting place for poetic diversity of style, culture and craft, we are proud to announce that this year’s headliners are award winning Chinese-American poet Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai (www.yellowgurl.com/), Joe Ray Sandoval (co-writer and subject of the award winning film “Spoken Word”) and ABQ’s own Jessica Helen Lopez (nationally renowned spoken word artist)…a trifecta of writing and performance craft that will steal the breath from your lungs and leave you spinning.
You can visit our Website: www.wix.com/physicalpoet/VC-page and Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/VerseConverse-Poetry-Project/320598976050?v=wall&ref=ts for updates, photos from last year’s events and more as we get closer to the kick off.
Our host hotel is the Best Western Kachina Lodge (also where the workshops and the main event Saturday night takes place) and they’re offering a vastly discounted $69 rate for one and two bed rooms during the festival. You can find them at http://kachinalodge.com/….. reserve your rooms soon!
If you have questions, please contact our Festival Coordinator, Zachary Kluckman, zgkluckman@msn.com directly or call him at (505) 730-9544. Hope to see you there….ask anyone who attended last year and you’ll know, this is not one you want to miss!
VC Events and Venues:
Thursday, June 3rd – Taos Invitational Poetry Championship — Youth Bracket — Emcee: Danny Solis
Youth Poetry Oympics:
- 12 pm meeting/intros
- Brunch (11:30 – 12:30 buffet)
- Workshop with Dain Michael Down – 12:30 – 2:30
- Main Event – 6 -10 pm
- Venue: Taos High School
Friday June 4th – Sacred Landscapes – a workshop for youth on the history and impact of a people on the land
Led by: Francis Hahn
- 10:30 am at the Gorge – meditation exercise with Zachary Kluckman
- 12 – 1:30 pm at the Earthships Biotecture project, Sacred Places Writing Session
- Venue: The Earthships Project
Friday: Workshop: Arron Shiver (back by popular demand): Voice for the Performing Poet. Time and Venue TBA
Friday, June 4th – VCF Award for Film Ceremony and Screening
- 3 pm to 5:30 pm
- Kachina Lodge
- Screening of “Spoken Word” (116 min.)
- Q&A with Screenwriter (and Subject of the film) – Joe Ray Sandoval
Friday, June 4th – Taos Invitational Poetry Championship — Professional Bracket:
Emcee: James Nave
6 to 9 pm
Venue: Shadows Lounge and Grill
Poets from across the nation, including Denver, Taos, Albuquerque, Seattle, Austin, New York City and Oklahoma City come together to compete for $500 and “The Silver Tongue Trophy”. Competitors include Suzi Q, Jessica Lopez, Dain Michael Down, Christian Drake (returns to defend his championship), Rob Sturma, Juan Concha and more (see website for full list)
Saturday June 5th – Sacred Words Workshops
- 10 am – 3pm
- Venue: Kachina Lodge
Workshops include:
(Visit the website for more detailed descriptions)
Ø Danny Solis – TBA
Ø Jessica Lopez – TBA
Ø Dain Michael Down – Sestinas
Ø Kenneth Gurney – Using Surrealist Techniques in Writing
Ø Kelly Zen- Yie Tsai – Canaries In The Coal Mine: Developing and Accepting The Sacred In Spoken Word Poetry
Ø Rob Sturma – Pop Goes the Culture
Saturday June 5th – Verse~Converse Poetry Main Show
- 7:30 pm – 10 pm
- Venue: Kachina Lodge Cabaret room
- Headlining – Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, Joe Ray Sandoval and Jessica Helen Lopez plus features including Lila Johnstone
A beautiful night of verse celebrating every tradition in modern poetics, from free verse to spoken word. Opening featurettes with the winner of the youth team competition from Thursday night, and several guest poets including Priscilla Baca y Candelaria, Lisa Gill and more.
Sunday June 6th – Closing Circle: Open Reading on Taos Plaza
- 10 am – 12 pm
An open reading circle in the Plaza where everyone is invited to share work in an open and welcoming environment.
Sunday June 6th – Film Screening
- 1 pm – 3:30 pm
- Screening of the Humberville Poetry Slam (A Satire)
- Screening of Spoken Word
- Venue: TBA
Zachary Kluckman
Verse~Converse Festival Coordinator
Albuquerque Slam Poet Laureate Program Director
Executive Director – NM Poetry Tangents
“This project is made possible in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts”
Curator Jan Smith has put together another stellar series to begin on Friday evening, July 9th! Opening Carol Moldaw & Arthur Sze and , recent poet laureate of New Mexico.
The summer slate will be announced next week. Stay tuned for more details…
SOMOS BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
First Tuesday of each Month
6:30 PM
SOMOS Office
This month we're reading Pulitzer Prize winner, J. M. Coetzee's, "Boyhood: Scenes from a Provincial Life" - his memoir of growing up in South Africa. Tonight's meeting 6-1-2010 will be helt at the SOMOS office from 6:30 to 8 p.m. All are welcome. Call 770-9057 for further information.
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Deadline June 4th
Please email poetry and short prose pieces for possible inclusion to somos@somostaos.org.
A very special evening/BENEFIT
This Saturday, May 15, 7:00 PM @ Mabel Dodge Luhan House
Robert Wilder is the author of two critically acclaimed books of essays: Tales From The Teachers’ Lounge and Daddy Needs a Drink, both of which have been optioned for television and film. He has published essays in Newsweek, Details, Salon, Parenting, Creative Nonfiction, Working Mother and elsewhere. He has been a commentator for NPR’s Morning Edition and On Point and other national and regional radio programs including the Daddy Needs a Drink Minute which airs weekly on KBAC FM. Wilder’s column, also titled “Daddy Needs A Drink,” is printed monthly in the Santa Fe Reporter. He was awarded the 2009 Innovations in Reading Prize by the National Book Foundation.
Diana Joseph is the author of the story collection Happy or Otherwise(Carnegie Mellon UP 2003) and the memoir I’m Sorry You Feel That Way: The Astonishing but True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife, Mother and Friend to Man and Dog. Her work has been listed in Best American Stories, Best American Essays, and the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Best Sex Writing, Country Living, and Marie Claire. She is the winner of the 2010 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction.
She teaches in the MFA program at Minnesota State University-Mankato.
$6 SOMOS Members/Seniors/Students/$8 Non-Members