Thu, Mar 19
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Robin Becker, Midsummer Count
Considered by many to be the foremost feminist poet of her generation, master craftsperson and activist Robin Becker explores several themes in this bountiful selection of new and selected poems.
Date, Time & Location
Mar 19, 2026, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
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Midsummer Count collects the best work of Robin Becker. With selections from each of her previously published books and nearly thirty new poems, readers enter Becker’s lifelong exploration of childhood, animals, cherished places, complex friendships, and romantic intimacy. A life-affirming current yokes these narratives across time, even as a sister’s early suicide haunts the decades. In blank and free verse, in couplets, quatrains, and sonnets, the poet wrestles formal tensions, creating a present-day idiom for beauty, grief, and compassion. Lovers of Becker’s work and those new to it will find in Midsummer Count a master class by one of today’s most dynamic poets.
About the Poet
Robin Becker is the author of eight previous books of poetry, including The Black Bear…