Festival of New Mexico Writers

The Friends of D.H. Lawrence: A Festival of New Mexico Writers
The Friends of D.H. Lawrence are staging their annual reading, “D.H Lawrence and Friends: A Festival of New Mexico Writers," Friday, April 8, 7:00 p.m. at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House.

The public is invited. No admission charge.

Readers will include actor and Taos resident Dean Stockwell who starred in the Oscar-winning film version of Lawrence’s “Sons and  Lovers.”

Storyteller/performer Roberta Meyers will do something from Frieda Lawrence, and author/educator Mirabai Starr will read from selected work.

In a fast-paced program, each reader will select a passage from a work of New Mexico literature and read for five minutes.

Other readers will include: UNM-Taos faculty members Ellie Behrstock, Bonnie Lee Black, Steve Fox, Marie Martinez, Anne MacNaughton and Susan Carpenter Sims. Also reading will be Ned Dougherty, R.C. Israel, Linda Lambert, Ralph Meyers and Kathy Pruitt.

Sam Richardson will emcee.

The Friends of D.H. Lawrence are a not-for-profit educational and cultural organization dedicated to preserving and fostering the rich heritage of creativity left by D.H. and Frieda Lawrence http://www.friendsofdhlawrence.org