This Thursday, April 29, 2010 7:00 PM
at UNM-Taos Klauer Campus is The 5th annual UNM-Taos “Read It to the Mountain” event is
an enchanting way to familiarize yourself with the
specialties of faculty poets, authors, essayists and
journalists who teach creative and professional writing
every spring, summer, and fall semester at UNM-Taos. Among
the many dedicated members of the lower-division
English/C&J faculty, there are currently several
instructors who are also professional, published writers.
This annual “Read It to the Mountain” event showcases the
professors’ creative talents in a breathtaking setting at
Klauer.
** FREE for the whole community **
Confirmed readers include:
Ellie Behrstock teaches creative writing classes at
UNM-Taos. She is writing a memoir, "The Eye of the Moon,"
about her life in New England and the Southwest. Ellie is
co-executive director of Open Hearth Arts and co-owner of
the Plaza Theater.
Steve Fox's nonfiction book "Toxic Work--Women Workers at
GTE Lenkurt" was published in 1991. He is finishing a
memoir of his experiences in Greece while a U.S. Air Force
officer in the late 1960s. He teaches writing and American
Studies at UNM-Taos and writes for the Horse Fly.
Robin Powlesland is an educator, writer and painter. After
attending California College of the Arts in San Francisco
and earning her MFA she relocated to New Mexico where she
has taught at Questa High School, UNM-Taos and the
Institute of American Indian Arts. You can find her
writing in her locally produced chapbook, “Double-Shot
Straight.”
Susan Carpenter Sims is an instructor and grantwriter at
UNM-Taos, the mother of three teenagers and a
two-year-old, and the owner of Illuminated Manuscripts, a
professional writing and editing business. Somehow, she
also finds time to keep up with her blog, The Whole
Blooming World, which can be found at
http://thepollinatrix.blogspot.com.
Bonnie Lee Black recently completed her third memoir,
tentatively titled The Patchwork Project: A Memoir of
Mali, about her life and humanitarian work in Segou, Mali,
West Africa. She teaches English composition and Creative
Nonfiction Writing at UNM-Taos.
A fairly recent photo is attached.
Anne MacNaughton teaches in the Literacy and Cultural
Studies Academy at UNM-Taos, and has been published in
numerous journals and anthologies including The Best
Poetry of 1989, The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, and In
Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets after 1960.
Past-director of the Taos Poetry Circus literary festival
as well as the Poetry Education Project that created the
first poetry performance team competition for teens, she
was co-recipient with Mary McGinnis and Peter Rabbit of
the New Mexico Literary Association’s first annual
Appreciation Award last year. A founding member of The
Luminous Animal jazz-poetry performance ensemble, she also
spends time working as an editor, visual artist and
organic farmer.
Sam Richardson teaches communications and journalism for
The University of New Mexico. He is also a free-lance
artist and writer, publishing in newspapers and magazines
in Texas and New Mexico. As a storyteller and emcee he
occasionally does public performances in Taos. Among his
topics is presidential humor. He is vice president of the
Friends of D.H. Lawrence and has served on the UNM faculty
senate and the Fall Arts Festival board. Currently, his
artwork is on display at Eskes Brew Pub in Taos.
an enchanting way to familiarize yourself with the
specialties of faculty poets, authors, essayists and
journalists who teach creative and professional writing
every spring, summer, and fall semester at UNM-Taos. Among
the many dedicated members of the lower-division
English/C&J faculty, there are currently several
instructors who are also professional, published writers.
This annual “Read It to the Mountain” event showcases the
professors’ creative talents in a breathtaking setting at
Klauer.
** FREE for the whole community **
Confirmed readers include:
Ellie Behrstock teaches creative writing classes at
UNM-Taos. She is writing a memoir, "The Eye of the Moon,"
about her life in New England and the Southwest. Ellie is
co-executive director of Open Hearth Arts and co-owner of
the Plaza Theater.
Steve Fox's nonfiction book "Toxic Work--Women Workers at
GTE Lenkurt" was published in 1991. He is finishing a
memoir of his experiences in Greece while a U.S. Air Force
officer in the late 1960s. He teaches writing and American
Studies at UNM-Taos and writes for the Horse Fly.
Robin Powlesland is an educator, writer and painter. After
attending California College of the Arts in San Francisco
and earning her MFA she relocated to New Mexico where she
has taught at Questa High School, UNM-Taos and the
Institute of American Indian Arts. You can find her
writing in her locally produced chapbook, “Double-Shot
Straight.”
Susan Carpenter Sims is an instructor and grantwriter at
UNM-Taos, the mother of three teenagers and a
two-year-old, and the owner of Illuminated Manuscripts, a
professional writing and editing business. Somehow, she
also finds time to keep up with her blog, The Whole
Blooming World, which can be found at
http://thepollinatrix.blogspot.com.
Bonnie Lee Black recently completed her third memoir,
tentatively titled The Patchwork Project: A Memoir of
Mali, about her life and humanitarian work in Segou, Mali,
West Africa. She teaches English composition and Creative
Nonfiction Writing at UNM-Taos.
A fairly recent photo is attached.
Anne MacNaughton teaches in the Literacy and Cultural
Studies Academy at UNM-Taos, and has been published in
numerous journals and anthologies including The Best
Poetry of 1989, The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, and In
Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets after 1960.
Past-director of the Taos Poetry Circus literary festival
as well as the Poetry Education Project that created the
first poetry performance team competition for teens, she
was co-recipient with Mary McGinnis and Peter Rabbit of
the New Mexico Literary Association’s first annual
Appreciation Award last year. A founding member of The
Luminous Animal jazz-poetry performance ensemble, she also
spends time working as an editor, visual artist and
organic farmer.
Sam Richardson teaches communications and journalism for
The University of New Mexico. He is also a free-lance
artist and writer, publishing in newspapers and magazines
in Texas and New Mexico. As a storyteller and emcee he
occasionally does public performances in Taos. Among his
topics is presidential humor. He is vice president of the
Friends of D.H. Lawrence and has served on the UNM faculty
senate and the Fall Arts Festival board. Currently, his
artwork is on display at Eskes Brew Pub in Taos.
