

Sun, Mar 16
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Joan Logghe, Jade Bird: Singing Grief
Joan Logghe, Santa Fe Poet Laureate 2010-2012, explores the mysterious confluence of grief and beauty in her latest work, a memoir of her family's extraordinary discovery of resilience and meaning amidst profound sorrow.
Date, Time & Location
Mar 16, 2025, 4:30 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store event and live streamed to Zoom, register for Zoom here.
Pre-order Jade Bird from CW online here or by calling the store (505) 988-4226. Signed copies will be available after the event.
Joan will be joined by family member contributors, Hope Logghe, Leland Guthrie, and Kaleia Guthrie who were a part of this journey of ceremony and grief. The family will also be joined by flautist, Charly Drobeck.
A family loses a child at birth. With guidance from dreams and support from their community, they weave together rituals and ceremonies that bring deep spiritual meaning into an impossibly painful time. Joan wrote poems and painted in bright watercolor as she worked through her own grief process. Those poems and images became the backbone of this book, which chronicles her family’s navigation through the valley of death. The book seems to open the hearts of the people who…