Back Porch reading & conversation with Lawrence Millman ticketed event April 27, 2-4 pm
Saturday, April 27th in person at Jules’ Poetry Playhouse, Placitas, NM
2 to 4 pm (doors open 1:30). Directions emailed with purchase.
Poet and writer Lawrence Millman joins us in person at our Back Porch reading series, followed by conversation and refreshments. Books will be for sale. Exclusive ticketed event with the author and Coyote Arts Press publishers. The price of admission includes pizza from Placitas Pizza, wine, and other refreshments. Walk the Poetry Playhouse labyrinth, and enjoy the view with your hosts Jules Nyquist and John Roche. A perfect outdoor setting for Millman’s memoir told in vignettes.
Reading from his latest book: Outsider: My Boyhood with Thoreau (Coyote Arts Press). This brief memoir is composed of vignettes that highlight Millman's outsider status, both as someone who loves the outdoors, and as someone who is "outside any known social group … unless you regard mushrooms, insects, or earthworms as social groups."
Lawrence will also have copies of Goodbye Ice: Arctic Poems. Coyote Arts Press is based in Albuquerque and we welcome Lawrence as he travels on his book tour with a special stop at Jules’ Poetry Playhouse.
Writer, ethnographer, mycologist Lawrence Millman has
made over forty trips and expeditions to the Arctic and
Subarctic. His twenty-seven books include such titles as
Last Places, Northern Latitudes, A Kayak Full of Ghosts,
Our Like Will Not Be There Again, Hiking to Siberia, Lost
in the Arctic, At the End of the World, The Book of Origins,
Fungipedia, The Last Speaker of Bear, Foraging with Jeeves,
and the Coyote Arts title Goodbye, Ice. He has written for
Smithsonian, National Geographic, Outside, Atlantic
Monthly, and The Sunday Times (London). He lives in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“Henry David, I think, would have wanted
you to carry this in your hip pocket, to be
mulled over in small bites while walking.”
— Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and
editor of American Earth: Environmental Writing
Since Thoreau
