SOMOS August 16 Weeklies

Posted by Jim Kimmons, Broker/Owner • August 17, 2010 • Printer-friendly

SOMOS Weeklies ~

SOMOS SUMMER WRITER SERIES CONTINUES.....

This Friday, August 20

TOM IRELAND (short stories)
&
Tania Casselle (short stories and travel writing)
with
Musical Guests Zanagroove

Zanagroove performs acoustic reggae and funk in their fourth appearance in the SOMOS Writers Series. Featuring the singer/songwriter team of Brooke Zanetell and Philip Handmaker, Zanagroove’s soulful sound is a platform for sung poetry. Themes such as love, loss, and finding one’s way are expressed in humorous, heartfelt and sometimes edgy lyrics. “Some songs come tumbling out of their own accord,” reports Handmaker. “Others require patient coaxing to become themselves.”

The band also muses on current events. The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, for example, is “devastating,” according to Zanetell. “Drowning in Oil” is a ballad she wrote that expresses her grief about the loss of marine and avian life. “Songwriting is a way to transform feelings of powerlessness into something powerful.” The song can be heard at www.zanagroove.com and on the band’s Facebook page.Zanagroove enlists accordion, melodica, guitar, and drums to round out their acoustic sound. They often perform as a trio with drummer John Huxsol. Based in Taos, NM, they have performed at local venues and a vast array of community events and fundraisers.

“We enjoy supporting our community through music,” states Zanetell. “It brings us together and makes us strong.”

7:30 PM
At the RANE Gallery, 214 Ledoux Street
$8 and $6 for SOMOS members

Books will be on sale at the event!!

The SUMMER SERIES wraps up next week ...............

8/27 Sawnie Morris and Jon Davis - poetry

KUDOS! Award for SOMOS Writers on Radio Interview

Tania Casselle's interview with Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez for SOMOS Writers On Radio won first place for Radio Interviews in the National Federation of Press Women Communications Contest 2010. (It also won the New Mexico Press Women 2010 contest for the same category, hence was submitted to the national awards.)

The program was produced by Cultural Energy. It first aired on KRZA 88.7 FM in February 2009 and was repeated on KTAO 101.9 FM in June, 2009. It can be heard on Cultural Energy's archives at http://www.culturalenergy.org/somos.htm The direct link = http://www.culturalenergy.org/mp3/somos6feb09.mp3

FYI, In the New Mexico Press Women Contest 2010 I also got a 3rd for Travel Articles (for a couple of features for Latitudes inflight magazine), 2nd for a Chapter in a Book (for a chapter in Novel and Short Story Writer's Market 2010), and an Honorable Mention for a Personality Profile over 500 Words. More about my regular work as a freelance writer at my website www.WriteOnDeadline.com

Congratulations, Tania!!

A big THANK YOU from Danielle and all of us at SOMOS for the generous and high quality book donations. Your contributions help pay the bills!

SOMOS BOOK CLUB UPDATE

The next book for Wednesday, September 1st, is "Lit" by Mary Karr - her latest memoir on her recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction. We decided last night that we would like everyone to bring the names of at least 3 books they would like to read in the coming year and we can have a discussion about what to pick and set up a schedule. The discussion will be facilitated on a rotating basis.

A Special Evening with Sam Shepard - SOMOS FUNDRAISER 2010
Sunday, September 26th
6:00 PM @ the TCA
Tickets: $20.00
Tickets on sale at the Taos Center for the Arts!!! 575-758-2052 with a credit card

SOMOS USED BOOK SALE!!
Every weekday from 10-1 & the first Saturday of each month.
Stop by the SOMOS office to browse.

Getting to Taos: Travel Memoirs of Taos Women in Middle Age

Phaedra Greenwood, Heather Antonissen, and Jan Smith
read from their travel memoirs.

August 17

7 P.M.

Enchanted Mountain Studios

114 Los Pandos Road, Taos

(parking at Smiths or corner of Montoya and Los Pandos)

Phaedra Greenwood s a well-known Taoseno writer and long time resident of Arroyo Hondo and author of "Beside the Rio Hondo". She will present readings from her newly published travel memoir, "North With the Spring" about traveling in Europe with small children.

Heather Antonissen is primarily an opera singer and moved to Taos three years ago after an amazing journey by car without map or plan. She will read from her travel memoir/novel in progress.

Jan Smith, curator for the SOMOS Writers Series, traveled across the country for three months in the summer of 2008, interviewing people for a book on "Manifesting Your Dreams". She will read from her travels in England, Canada, and in the States. When she left her rural New Hampshire home her three possible destinations were Taos, Ashland, Oregon or Maui.

Refreshments will be served

Donations for the writers welcome but not at all obligatory.

Any questions call: 575 621 5928 and speak to William Osborne.

Reading Deeply / Writing Deeply

5-week workshops

Facilitator: Veronica Golos

All Genres, All Levels

Hello Writers!

Reading Deeply/Writing Deeply is based on the belief that the two acts are intimately connected. An in-depth investigation and dialogue with another writer's work can only enrich our own writing, aid to our exploration of technique, craft and content. Moreover, the combination makes for great conversation and dialogue among the writers in the workshop!

Using short stories, essays, articles, speeches, poetry, and a novel, we will delve deeply into Latin American Literature, beginning with a short story by Garcia Marquez, “Monologue of Isabel.” We’ll also read his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, essays about "Magic Realism," its provocations and problems.

We will include Carlos Fuentes’ much quoted essay on Garcia Marquez, "Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Invention of America", and a slew of poems by a series of Mexican women poets. At the fifth week, we will begin our reading of Garcia Marquez’s famous book, “One Hundred Years of Solitude, which I hope we will explore in the second five-week session.

Each class will be 2 1/2 hours, the first half hour to 45 minutes devoted to the readings; we will continue with free writes, and then most of the time on your work - whether it be Memoir, Fiction, Essays, or Poetry.

Whether you are an accomplished or emerging writer, this workshop will open up new horizons in your work, all in a lively, safe, and supportive atmosphere. We can even bring snacks!

The workshop will begin September 14 on Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Taos Library Conference Room.

The fee for the five workshops is $125; plus a $25 materials fee. I will be handing out a great deal of material, to cut the costs for the participants. If you can, do order “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “From Where We Dream,” by Robert Olen Butler – it is a fabulous font of exercises and inspiration.

TO REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP, PLEASE EMAIL YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE, EMAIL AND THE GENRE YOU'D LIKE TO WRITE IN, TO:
VGDP@AOL.COM

Veronica Golos won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize for her book, A Bell Buried Deep (Story Line Press) due to be re released by Red Hen Press. Red Hen Press is also set to publish her second book, Vocabulary of Silence, due out Feb. 2011. Golos has been a teacher of memoir, creative writing and poetry, and taught for Poets & Writers, Poets House, 92nd St Y/Makor in New York. She has been the Poet in Residence at New York's 14th St Y, Nassau County Museum, Sacred Heart Academy, Yaxche School in Taos. She has lectured on the teaching of poetry to youth at Colorado State University, Columbia University, Hunter College. Widely published, her work has been translated internationally, and performed in New York's Theatre Row, and the Clairemont School of Theology.

Intermediate Creative Nonfiction Writing, #323,

a new UNM-Taos upper division course, is being offered this fall, starting August 24,
taught by award-winning UNM English instructor Bonnie Lee Black, MFA.
Tuesdays, 6-8:45 pm, at 246-B Ledoux Street, next to the Harwood Museum.

For further information, call: 758-2828, or go to: http://statewide.unm.edu~taoslink.

THIS PROJECT IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY NEW MEXICO ARTS, A DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, AND THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, MAG DIMOND, THE VIRGINIA WELLINGTON CABOT FOUNDATION, THE PETER & MADELEINE MARTIN FOUNDATION FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS, HEALY FOUNDATION and the TAOS COUNTY LODGERS TAX