SOMOS August 23 Weeklies

SOMOS Weeklies ~

SOMOS SUMMER WRITER SERIES WRAP UP …..

This Friday, August 27

An Evening of Poetry
Sawnie Morris
&
Jon Davis

Morris is a poet and UNM-Taos professor of creative writing and poetry. She recently won the 2010 Poetry Society of America’s George Bogin Memorial Award. Morris’ chapbook of poems, appeared, along with those of Espanola poet Michelle Holland and Galisteo poet Catherine Ferguson, in “The Sound a Rave Makes(2006), winner of the 2007 New Mexico Book Award.

Davis is the author of five collections of poetry including his most recent, “Preliminary Report”(Copper Canyon, 2010). He has received numerous awards for his poetry,

including a Lannan Literary Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. For the past twenty years he has taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.

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

Books will be on sale at the event!!

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 in advance $30 at the door ~ if available
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.

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