Wed, Apr 01
|https://zoom.us/j/994862033
ONLINE! Santa Fe's Poets Laureate Celebrate National Poetry Month
As a balm for our souls in these times, Santa Fe's current Poet Laureate, Elizabeth Jacobson, and former Poets Laureate, Arthur Sze, Valerie Martinez, and Jon Davis will read their works and have a conversation
Date, Time & Location
Apr 01, 2020, 6:00 PM
https://zoom.us/j/994862033
About the Event
The City of Santa Fe Arts Commission's Poet Laureate program was established in 2005. The Poet Laureate is an honorary position that is both ceremonial and educational, with the goal of promoting the presence of poetry in the city and the power of poetry and the spoken word while celebrating the spirit of the people and special qualities of the city.
Elizabeth Jacobson currently serves as the city’s fifth Poet Laureate, and will serve through June 2021. Elizabeth’s second book, Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air, won the New Measure Poetry Prize, selected by Marianne Boruch, and was published in January 2019, by Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press. Her other books include two chapbooks, A Brown Stone and Are the Children Make Believe? both from Dancing Girl Press and a full-length collection, Her Knees Pulled In, from Tres Chicas Books. She is the founding director of the WingSpan Poetry Project,…