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Join poet Claudia Stanek and friends for the release of her new book, Beneath Occluded Shine
with Denton Loving, Gail Hosking, and Catherine Farout, Bennington MFA Writing Seminars alumni.
Hosted by Jules Nyquist, Bennington alumni, and John Roche
Jules Nyquist collage is cover art
followed by open mic
FREE - pre-registration required
with Denton Loving, Gail Hosking, and Catherine Farout, Bennington MFA Writing Seminars alumni.
Hosted by Jules Nyquist, Bennington alumni, and John Roche
Jules Nyquist collage is cover art
followed by open mic
FREE - pre-registration required
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Where: Travel Bug (839 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, NM 87501)
When: April 12, 2025 at 5:00PM
Come to be inspired about how Bear and his partner Jessica lived and survived on the Yukon River in the Yukon Territory and in the central mountains of Alaska during the 1970s. It is based on his recently self-published book, “Becoming Ravenbear, An Alaskan Magical Memoir.” You will see how they built cabins and hunted for food and foraged for berries and mushrooms. Bear will relate how they explored living on the land in harmony with the natural beauty that surrounded them. You will learn about their experience of delivering their baby girl. Bear will show a lot of photos about the cycles of the rivers, from the freezeups in the Fall to the breakups in the Spring.
Santa Fe, NM 87501)
When: April 12, 2025 at 5:00PM
Come to be inspired about how Bear and his partner Jessica lived and survived on the Yukon River in the Yukon Territory and in the central mountains of Alaska during the 1970s. It is based on his recently self-published book, “Becoming Ravenbear, An Alaskan Magical Memoir.” You will see how they built cabins and hunted for food and foraged for berries and mushrooms. Bear will relate how they explored living on the land in harmony with the natural beauty that surrounded them. You will learn about their experience of delivering their baby girl. Bear will show a lot of photos about the cycles of the rivers, from the freezeups in the Fall to the breakups in the Spring.
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Saturday, April 5, 2025
4:00 pm
Main Library
145 Washington Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501
Register to attend at tinyurl.com/Wamponomon
WAMPONOMON: The Place of Shells is a poignant and heart-breaking look at the past we all carry within us. A reflection on place, it is the Long Island of the author’s childhood, but also the history of the land, both real and imagined. It is both small town America and colonialism writ large, and reading through this collection of poems will take the reader on an unforgettable journey through time and memory.
KAREN PETERSEN has published poetry, short stories, and flash both nationally and internationally. Her poems have been translated into Persian and Spanish, and she has been nominated for numerous prizes, including ten Pushcarts, and most recently long-listed for the UK’s international Bridport Prize, Forward Prize, and Australia’s Peter Porter Prize. In 2022, her chapbook “Trembling,” published by Kelsay Books, won the Wil Mills Award, judged by Annie Finch, and her poem “The Price of Love” was nominated for Best of the Net. New work is in The Wallace Stevens Journal and The Cimarron Review. More information can be found at: karenpetersenwriter.com
4:00 pm
Main Library
145 Washington Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501
Register to attend at tinyurl.com/Wamponomon
WAMPONOMON: The Place of Shells is a poignant and heart-breaking look at the past we all carry within us. A reflection on place, it is the Long Island of the author’s childhood, but also the history of the land, both real and imagined. It is both small town America and colonialism writ large, and reading through this collection of poems will take the reader on an unforgettable journey through time and memory.
KAREN PETERSEN has published poetry, short stories, and flash both nationally and internationally. Her poems have been translated into Persian and Spanish, and she has been nominated for numerous prizes, including ten Pushcarts, and most recently long-listed for the UK’s international Bridport Prize, Forward Prize, and Australia’s Peter Porter Prize. In 2022, her chapbook “Trembling,” published by Kelsay Books, won the Wil Mills Award, judged by Annie Finch, and her poem “The Price of Love” was nominated for Best of the Net. New work is in The Wallace Stevens Journal and The Cimarron Review. More information can be found at: karenpetersenwriter.com
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Authors, designers, publishers, and publicists from New Mexico (or any book with a creative connection to New Mexico) may now enter the 2025 New Mexico Book Awards.
The book awards program, a nearly two-decades-old book competition, was slated to cease this year. Instead it will continue under new management by New Mexico Writers with NMW’s own administrator, Lisa McCoy, in the role of director.
The NM Book Awards entry process should feel familiar to previous participants. During this transition year, much will be the same as was created and shaped by Paul Rhetts, co-founder of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards.
Entry eligibility, submission fee/instructions, and categories for the 2025 NM Book Awards can be found on the NMW website at: nmwriters.org/nm-book-awards
All entries must be postmarked no later than Friday, April 25, 2025.
Finalists will be announced at the end of September. Winners will be announced before mid-November.
Judges needed for the NM Book Awards!
Help us discover great New Mexico books. Sign up here to be a judge in the New Mexico Book Awards.
Judges can be booksellers, librarians, teachers, authors, publishers, agents, or avid readers. Judges will typically have about 3 months for reading and scoring their assigned books. The deadline for judging is August 1, 2025.
The book awards program, a nearly two-decades-old book competition, was slated to cease this year. Instead it will continue under new management by New Mexico Writers with NMW’s own administrator, Lisa McCoy, in the role of director.
The NM Book Awards entry process should feel familiar to previous participants. During this transition year, much will be the same as was created and shaped by Paul Rhetts, co-founder of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards.
Entry eligibility, submission fee/instructions, and categories for the 2025 NM Book Awards can be found on the NMW website at: nmwriters.org/nm-book-awards
All entries must be postmarked no later than Friday, April 25, 2025.
Finalists will be announced at the end of September. Winners will be announced before mid-November.
Judges needed for the NM Book Awards!
Help us discover great New Mexico books. Sign up here to be a judge in the New Mexico Book Awards.
Judges can be booksellers, librarians, teachers, authors, publishers, agents, or avid readers. Judges will typically have about 3 months for reading and scoring their assigned books. The deadline for judging is August 1, 2025.
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The CIPA EVVYs™ is one of the longest-running book award competitions on the Indie publishing scene, running for nearly 30 years. The annual contest is sponsored by the Collective of Independent Publishers and Authors (CIPA), along with the CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation (ELF).
The CIPA EVVYs™ receive entries from all over the world, including England, Belgium, South Africa, Russia, and Dubai. With a growing number of entries in more than 40 categories, the CIPA EVVYs™ continue to provide an excellent way for independent authors to gain recognition for their work.
The CIPA EVVYs™ receive entries from all over the world, including England, Belgium, South Africa, Russia, and Dubai. With a growing number of entries in more than 40 categories, the CIPA EVVYs™ continue to provide an excellent way for independent authors to gain recognition for their work.
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April is National Poetry Month!
Read, analyze, write, and share poetry in this four-part poetry workshop series with award-winning writer Darryl Lorenzo Wellington.
Registration is required. Please register for each session you will be attending.
April is National Poetry Month!
Read, analyze, write, and share poetry in this four-part poetry workshop series with award-winning writer Darryl Lorenzo Wellington.
Registration is required. Please register for each session you will be attending.
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Sit in the presence of a living lineage of wisdom, hear stories from the heart, and reflect on the teachings that guide us forward. Whether you are new to Grandmother Flordemayo’s work or have followed her journey for years, this is a rare opportunity to be in sacred conversation with her & Heather.
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Date, Time & Location
Mar 07, 2025, 6:00 PM MST
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom here.
Pre-order Lanterns in the Night Market online from CWB here (publishing Feb 15, $21.95, paperback), and Anchor online here ($16,00, paperback), or call the store to order (505) 988-4226.
Lanterns in the Night Market: Weaving diverse cultures, vast landscapes, and ecological concerns, crossing beauty with danger, these poems are an invitation to the realm of possibility and enchantment. A flamenco dancer seduces his audience in Spain, and lovers travel through Istanbul. Writers live in exile while a menu for a dictator endangers the earth. The full moon shines over the Serengeti as nocturnal animals gather. Glaciers of Mount Kilimanjaro melt too quickly. A poet writes from his house near the beached skeleton of a whale. Lanterns in the Night Market is a love letter to the world.
Mary Morris is the author of three previous books of poetry: Enter Water, Swimmer (selected by X.J. Kennedy), Dear October (New Mexico-Arizona Book Award), and Late Self-Portraits (Wheelbarrow Book Prize). Her poems are published in Boulevard, North American Review, Poetry, Poetry Daily, and Prairie Schooner. A recipient of the Rita Dove Award and Western Humanities Review Poetry Prize, she has been invited to read her poems at the Library of Congress, which aired on NPR. Kwame Dawes selected her work for American Life in Poetry from The Poetry Foundation. www.water400.org
Mar 07, 2025, 6:00 PM MST
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom here.
Pre-order Lanterns in the Night Market online from CWB here (publishing Feb 15, $21.95, paperback), and Anchor online here ($16,00, paperback), or call the store to order (505) 988-4226.
Lanterns in the Night Market: Weaving diverse cultures, vast landscapes, and ecological concerns, crossing beauty with danger, these poems are an invitation to the realm of possibility and enchantment. A flamenco dancer seduces his audience in Spain, and lovers travel through Istanbul. Writers live in exile while a menu for a dictator endangers the earth. The full moon shines over the Serengeti as nocturnal animals gather. Glaciers of Mount Kilimanjaro melt too quickly. A poet writes from his house near the beached skeleton of a whale. Lanterns in the Night Market is a love letter to the world.
Mary Morris is the author of three previous books of poetry: Enter Water, Swimmer (selected by X.J. Kennedy), Dear October (New Mexico-Arizona Book Award), and Late Self-Portraits (Wheelbarrow Book Prize). Her poems are published in Boulevard, North American Review, Poetry, Poetry Daily, and Prairie Schooner. A recipient of the Rita Dove Award and Western Humanities Review Poetry Prize, she has been invited to read her poems at the Library of Congress, which aired on NPR. Kwame Dawes selected her work for American Life in Poetry from The Poetry Foundation. www.water400.org