Mon, Apr 01
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
National Poetry Month Celebration w/ Two Poets Laureate
Tommy Archuleta, Santa Fe Poet Laureate 2024 and Lauren Camp, New Mexico Poet Laureate 2022-2025 will celebrate National Poetry Month by reading from new works and old favorites.
Date, Time & Location
Apr 01, 2024, 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 live streamed to Zoom, register here for Zoom.
Order your copy of Tommy Archuleta's debut work, Susto ($ 16.95, paperback) online here and Lauren Camp's Worn Smooth Between Devourings (Sept. 2023) online here or call the store to order her new work, In Old Sky (publishing April), (505) 988-4226.
SUSTO
Surreal yet earthbound, orphaned yet mothered more than most, comforting yet disturbing— Tommy Archuleta’s Susto surveys many settings: the body, the soul, the terrain the soul encounters upon leaving the body. But the setting is also the high desert landscape that is the poet’s northern New Mexico home, a land whose beauty today is as silencing and brutal as was the colonization of the region and her Anasazi descendants by Archuleta’s Spanish antipasados.
In Susto, loss is everywhere to be found, though this work is not merely a concerted meditation on lament. Rather,…