Tuesday, September 22, 2026 - Fall Equinox Feature
Doors open 5:30 pm - complimentary pizza, wine, refreshments
Reading starts aprx 6 pm
followed by audience conversation
$12 per ticket - audience limit is 15 VIP seats on our Back Porch.
This performance will be outside under our covered patio. In case of inclement weather, we will be inside. Books by the authors will be for sale. Poetry Playhouse gallery and bookstore will be open.
We pair up two poets to share their latest work (this portion is recorded for our YouTube archive available free to the public) and follow with a conversation. This is a time for you to ask your own questions and to get to know the authors better as they share their artistic process, their writing, and what they’re up to. A personal approach - and of course, books by the authors are also for sale, and for signing.
This is an in-person event with limited seating. Price of event includes pizza from local Placitas Pizza, wine, and assorted beverages. (We order one pizza with gluten free/cauliflower crust, and have veggie pizza options).
Conversation with the poets follows the reading.
Tani Arness joins us from Albuquerque. She has a book forthcoming from 3: A Taos Press. She will be reading from her collection. She is the Principal of Cesar Chavez Community School where she taught poetry. Tani's poems can also be found in Malpais Review, and numerous literary journals, including Red Rock Review, Rhino, North American Review, and Crab Orchard Review.
Mary Strong Jackson joins us from Santa Fe. Her full-length book of poetry, A Pear-Shaped World, was published in May of 2025 by Finishing Line Press. El Palacio, a Magazine of Art, History, and Culture of the Southwest published her poem, “The Backbone of Us” in the Spring 2022, Vol. 127. The poem was chosen by the Santa Fe Poet Laureate, Darryl Wellington. Mary’s chapbook titles are Dreaming in Grief, Finishing Line Press, 2022, From Other Tongues, 2017, Witnesses, 2011, and No Buried Dogs, 2006, Foothills Publishing, Clippings Pudding House Publications, 1995. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies in the United States and England. She facilitated a writing group for 4 years at the Life Link psycho/social rehabilitation program where she worked in Santa Fe, NM. She brought poetry to the men’s and women’s shelters in Santa Fe for 2 years.
Each poet will read from their work, and maybe some new poems, and we will continue the conversation with our audience.
Tuesday, September 22, 2026 - Fall Equinox Feature
Doors open 5:30 pm - complimentary pizza, wine, refreshments
Reading starts aprx 6 pm
followed by audience conversation
$12 per ticket - audience limit is 15 VIP seats on our Back Porch.
This performance will be outside under our covered patio. In case of inclement weather, we will be inside. Books by the authors will be for sale. Poetry Playhouse gallery and bookstore will be open.
We pair up two poets to share their latest work (this portion is recorded for our YouTube archive available free to the public) and follow with a conversation. This is a time for you to ask your own questions and to get to know the authors better as they share their artistic process, their writing, and what they’re up to. A personal approach - and of course, books by the authors are also for sale, and for signing.
This is an in-person event with limited seating. Price of event includes pizza from local Placitas Pizza, wine, and assorted beverages. (We order one pizza with gluten free/cauliflower crust, and have veggie pizza options).
Conversation with the poets follows the reading.
Tani Arness joins us from Albuquerque. She has a book forthcoming from 3: A Taos Press. She will be reading from her collection. She is the Principal of Cesar Chavez Community School where she taught poetry. Tani's poems can also be found in Malpais Review, and numerous literary journals, including Red Rock Review, Rhino, North American Review, and Crab Orchard Review.
Mary Strong Jackson joins us from Santa Fe. Her full-length book of poetry, A Pear-Shaped World, was published in May of 2025 by Finishing Line Press. El Palacio, a Magazine of Art, History, and Culture of the Southwest published her poem, “The Backbone of Us” in the Spring 2022, Vol. 127. The poem was chosen by the Santa Fe Poet Laureate, Darryl Wellington. Mary’s chapbook titles are Dreaming in Grief, Finishing Line Press, 2022, From Other Tongues, 2017, Witnesses, 2011, and No Buried Dogs, 2006, Foothills Publishing, Clippings Pudding House Publications, 1995. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies in the United States and England. She facilitated a writing group for 4 years at the Life Link psycho/social rehabilitation program where she worked in Santa Fe, NM. She brought poetry to the men’s and women’s shelters in Santa Fe for 2 years.
Each poet will read from their work, and maybe some new poems, and we will continue the conversation with our audience.
