Southwest Word Fiesta and WNMU Miller Library will host Silver City Poet Laureate Allison Waterman and Young Adult novelist and poet Catalina Claussen for “An Hour of Poetry Power” on Tuesday, November 9, 6-7 PM. Waterman will read from her new collection of poems set for publication at the end of her term. Claussen will […]
Jack Crocker’s poems have appeared in many magazines and journals and in anthologies of Texas Writers and Mississippi Writers. The Texas Review Press published a collection of his poems in 2009 entitled The Last Resort. He has published fiction in the Cimarron Review. His “introduction to Folksongs,” scripted and performed, was aired nationally on PBS. A songwriter, he […]
The Southwest Word Fiesta, a biennial literary festival based in Silver City, NM will host “Hillerman Day” on October 20, 2021, 4:00-6:30 p.m., celebrating novelists Tony Hillerman and his daughter Anne Hillerman, as well as his brother the photographer Barney Hillerman. This virtual event will kick off with Anne Hillerman reading from and discussing her […]
Silver City author Beate Sigriddaughter’s new collection of prose poems, Kaleidoscope, has just been published by Cholla Needles and is available on Amazon.com. Kaleidoscope is a procession of shifting visions, sometimes dazzling, oftentimes moody, and always unpredictable. The poems, written in third person, are reflections of an unnamed woman on abstract themes that quickly get anchored […]
Southwest Word Fiesta will host An Evening with Catalina Claussen. She will read from her humorous short story collection, Being Home: A Southwestern Almanac on June 3, 6-7 PM, via Zoom. The event is free and open to the public, no registration required. https://zoom.us/j/99796687598?pwd=aXZXcEVUSEtGd05UbEx4QXRWbnF1Zz09 Being Home: A Southwestern Almanac is a laugh-out-loud story collection made […]
The Southwest Word Fiesta is pleased to host An Afternoon with Alethea Eason and Eve West Bessier. Eason will read from her new young adult magical realist novel, Whispers of the Old Ones, and West Bessier will share some poetry from her two-year tenure as Poet Laureate of Silver City and Grant County on April […]
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