Mary Morris Launches New Book This Friday

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