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Poetry Workshop to be Presented by Elise Stuart

The next workshop offered in The Write Stuff writing series from Southwest Word Fiesta will be a poetry workshop presented by former Silver City and Grant County Poet Laureate, Elise Stuart. The workshop will be held on Saturday, July 15, from 10-11:30 AM MDT, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Silver City, NM, 3845 N Swan St, Silver City, NM 88061. “Poetry is an intimate act. It’s about bringing forth something that’s inside you―whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another person or for the world, or an apprehension of the spiritual. It’s about making something, in language, which can be transmitted to others―not as information but as irreducible art” (from The Poet’s Companion by Laux and Addonzio).

This will be a hands-on community workshop where participants will explore, discuss, write, and share their work. The focus will be on the stories we have within us and how to translate those stories using metaphor, image, and rhythm. Please bring writing materials and your wild imagination.

Elise Stuart, Poet Laureate of Grant County from 2014-2017, is the author of a collection of poems, Another Door Calls, and a memoir, My Mother and I, We Talk Cat. She facilitates an open poetry group, River Poets, that is still alive and growing, and hosts the monthly poetry event at Tranquil Buzz Coffeehouse in Silver City. She has led numerous poetry workshops with youth and supports their voices being heard. She is at work on a new book of poetry.

The workshop is free and open to the public. RSVPs are not taken, but seating is plentiful. Masks are optional, and the air is filtered for safety.

Readers can find Elise’s work on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Another-Door-Calls-Elise-Stuart/dp/1940769663#customerReviews.

Disclaimer:
The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Southwest Word Fiesta™ or its steering committee.

Kris Neri

Kris Neri's latest novel is HOPSCOTCH LIFE, an accept-yourself-in-all-your-glory women's fiction-crime crossover, featuring quirky protagonist Plum Tardy. HOPSCOTCH LIFE is a recent New Mexico-Arizona Book Award winner. Kris also writes the Tracy Eaton Mysteries, featuring the daughter of eccentric Hollywood stars: REVENGE OF THE GYPSY QUEEN, DEM BONES' REVENGE, REVENGE FOR OLD TIMES' SAKE and REVENGE ON ROUTE 66, as well as the Samantha Brennan and Annabelle Haggerty Magical Mysteries, featuring a questionable psychic who teams up with a modern goddess/FBI agent: HIGH CRIMES ON THE MAGICAL PLANE and MAGICAL ALIENATION. Her other books include her standalone thrillers, NEVER SAY DIE, DEVIL'S GAMBIT - DEVIL'S DUE, TRUST NO ONE, and two short story collections, THE ROSE IN THE SNOW and MADCAP MAYHEM: THE TRACY EATON MYSTERY SHORT STORIES. Kris has also appeared in a DVD offering writing instruction: WRITING KILLER MYSTERIES WITH KRIS NERI, produced by T2G Productions in Valencia, CA. Her novels have been honored by such prestigious awards as the: Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, Lefty, and New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. Her novels have been honored with three Lefty Award nominations for humor. Three of her novels have been finalists for the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, and two of them have won it. Her most recent Tracy Eaton Mystery, REVENGE ON ROUTE 66, was a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award finalist, and her most recent Samantha Brennan and Annabelle Haggerty Magical Mystery, MAGICAL ALIENATION, won the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. Kris teaches writing online for the prestigious Writers' Program of the UCLA Extension School, and other organization. When she isn't writing, Kris loves reading, hiking, and cooking. She loves hearing from her readers through her website, http://www.krisneri.com. She hails from Silver City, NM, where she lives with her husband and two pushy terriers.
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