Alvaro Cardona-Hine of Truchas, maestro of words, painting and music will read from recent works in print. He will be joined by Santa Fe's third poet laureate, Joan Logghe. This reading is Joan's first as Poet Laureate and she wants to celebrate the great friendships between writers in this generous literary community. Joan Logghe works at poetry off the academic grid in La Puebla, New Mexico where she and her husband, Michael, raised three children and built three houses. She is Poet Laureate of Santa Fe 2010-2012.  She studied at Tufts University, where she graduated as Class Poet. She began a life in poetry by volunteering at her children’s school thirty years ago and has worked with children and youth as well as adults ever since. Awards include 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 teaching life has included Ghost Ranch Abiquiu, University of New Mexico-Los Alamos, Santa Fe Community College, Artworks, Santa Fe Girls’ School and Santa Clara Pueblo Day School. She taught poetry in Bratislava, Vienna, and Zagreb, Croatia in 2004.Her books include What Makes a Woman Beautiful, Twenty Years in Bed with the Same Man (a finalist in Western States Book Award), Sofia, and Rice.  Forthcoming in Spring 2011 is The Singing Bowlfrom UNM Press, and Greatest Hits: Love & Death  a triptych of selected poems from Joan, Renée Gregorio, and Miriam Sagan the three founders of Tres Chicas Books.