September
The Land: Our Gift and Wild Hope has been named FINALIST for the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards in two categories: Nature/Environment and First Book!
November – in Quebec and Santa Fe!
Billed with Isabelle Forêt and Michel Leclerc as 3 featured poets, on the 8th, I was moved by the public’s enthusiastically warm reception of my poetry performance in French at the Tam Tam reading series in Quebec City.
SOON, AN AUDIO/E-BOOK! After having enjoyed being celebrated as a finalist at the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards banquet on November 15th, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I drove the beautiful drive up to Colorado where I spent a week recording The Land with Diana and Jaime Andrade of Brook Forest Voices in Evergreen, CO. We are doing an enhanced e-book, meaning an e-book with full audio recording as well as the text and images as they appear in the printed book. I thoroughly enjoyed being in the studio again with Brook Forest Voices (I enjoyed recording studios previously when I did my Spoken word CD BLACK GRACE).
The completed audio-e-book is planned for digital and other distribution in January 2014. You can access Brook Forest Voices press release about our project here.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/7/prweb10979872.htm
All are welcome – in person or on the net – to these spring events with The Land in New Mexico.
April 19, 20, 21st. I’ll be enjoying The Book Border Festival in Las Cruces, reconnecting with beloved Denise Chavez and participating in the dialogue on the legacy of the land, then and now, in the Camino Real region (from Mexico City to Santa Fe, NM).
Monday April 22nd, 6pm: in Santa Fe, at Collected Works Bookstore, on a multi-disciplinary Earth Day panel I am honoured to be invited by environmental scientist Steven Rudnick sharing on how our work in science and art can help reduce the effects of climate change.
Saturday, May 4th, 2-3:30pm: a reading with myself and Jack Loeffler, aural historian and defender of Western watersheds, and our exchange with Taoseños in Taos at Moby Dickens Bookshop.
May 10,11, 12th. Southwest Book Fiesta in Albuquerque, NM. Booth #531 on Saturday.
It’s been just over a year now that The Land: Our Gift and Wild Hope has been making its way in the world (and into many of your homes!). I’m grateful for the wonderful responses many of you have given me and more than happy to know that the book offers people, hope, beauty and courage among today’s many trials in the land.
Delightful and meaningful exchange continued during my January 2013 book tour in the Southwest. I was thrilled to be reading from The Land in my favorite home places, Denver, Taos and Santa Fe. Warm Thanks to each and all who attended! What was particularly satisfying for me with these readings was that each one was done in collaboration with others. This meets my deep desire to have the book be part of the wider on-going conversation on the land.
First was: Denver, (I was born here!) Colorado: Thursday, January 10th, at the Tattered Cover’s LoDo store in collaboration with Jeff Lee and his Rocky Mountain Land Library (www.landlibrary.org). Then, Taos, New Mexico: Thursday, January 17th at the Harwood Museum in collaboration with SOMOS, “The literary heart of Taos and northern New Mexico.” There I shared the stage with Nasario Garcia (nasariogarciaphe.com) and had the great pleasure of visiting with John Nichols (author of The Milagro Beanfield War and so many other writings).
The third but not the least Santa Fe, New Mexico: Thursday January 24th at Collected Works Bookstore (collectedworksbookstore.com). For this reading I invited two other environmental authors who share the sense of the spiritual in the land to join me: Jack Loeffler, aural historian, and devoted chronicler and defender of Western watersheds (loreoftheland.org), and A. Kyce Bello, poet, mother, herbalist and editor of The Return of the River.
Please feel free to keep visiting visit this webpage for upcoming events as the year moves on!
