Tue, Apr 04
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Celebrate Poetry Month with John Macker, Jill Prendergast, & James Thomas Stevens
Award-winning poet and playwright John Macker, CW's own in-house poet Jill Prendergast and IAIA Professor James Thomas Stevens will read from their respective collections which reverberate with a musicality that binds these poets and creatives.
Date, Time & Location
Apr 04, 2023, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store presentation and will be live streamed on Zoom, register here for Zoom.
All books will be signed by the authors and available to purchase by calling the store (505) 988-4226
John Macker:
Desert Threnody is unique in his oeuvre in that it collects, not his poetry, but his literary essays, a short play, and short stories. These assembled pieces represent about 8 years worth of work. The essays are for the most part, about poets with strong connections to the southwest, some unfairly infamous in their obscurity, a few not quite so obscure: his essays on Edward Dorn and Michael Ondaatje come to mind. In the others, Macker celebrates the much respected but unheralded poets that he’s come to know and admire. The author refers to them as "suspended essays" with no particular grounding except in his enthusiasm and admiration for the words and the…