There will be a special celebration for this month’s JUST WORDS event on Saturday, May 18th from 2:00 to 4:00 pm, to welcome our new Poet Laureate of Silver City and Grant County!
Serendipitously, Eve West Bessier was already scheduled months ago to be the featured reader for May. The May event will feature many newer poems, different from Bessier’s reading in October. She will be performing poems from her just published collection, “Roots Music: Listening to Jazz.” She will be mixing in live vocal and piano jazz between poems. Bessier’s visionary novel, “New Rain,” was just released in paperback, so she will read a short excerpt from that story. Bessier and Patrick Markham will also perform two traditional Hawaiian songs as the Hawaiian duo Blonde Aloha, and there may be some hula, limited stage space permitting!
This event is the official book release for both volumes, so there will be copies for sale and an opportunity to get them signed. More about Eve West Bessier can be found on her website jazzpoeteve.com.
As always, we will have an OPEN MIC after the featured reading, so bring your own work to share and remember to put your name on the sign up sheet near the front door when you arrive.
