SOMOS Weeklies August 30th
SOMOS Weeklies ~
KUDOS!!!
THE SOMOS SUMMER WRITERS SERIES WAS A HUGE SUCCESS!!
Thanks very much to our curator Jan Smith, Volunteer Coordinator Francesca Grano and her team of fabulous volunteers, to our talented writers and musicians, and to Judith Rane for providing a perfect venue!!
Saturday, September 4 10 - 1 PM
at the SOMOS Office (across from Smiths)
Lots of new titles!!
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
Every weekday from 10-1 & the first Saturday of each month.
Stop by the SOMOS office to browse.
The Taos chapter of the Storytellers of New Mexico will hold its next story swap at the Taos Public Library community room.
Saturday, September 11th, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The event is free to the public.
Join us and share one of your stories or just come to listen.
For more information, contact Gail Berry at 751-3442.
Reading Deeply / Writing Deeply
5-week workshops
Facilitator: Veronica Golos
All Genres, All Levels
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.
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
Newsletter Correction: Four Corners Storytelling Festival in Farmington is scheduled for October 8 and 9 this year. The festival will feature Internationally known storytellers Bil Lepp; Dianne Ferlatte; Joe Hayes; Mary Ellen Gonzales; Sid Hausman; Adam Teller and Beth Horner will entertain with Liar's tales; cowboy poetry and Native American Stories and songs. The two day outdoor event is scheduled from 9am to 9pm and workshops at the Farmington Public Library.
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