Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Doors open 6:30 pm - complimentary pizza, wine, refreshments
Reading starts aprx 7 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.
Featured readers Leslie Ullman (Taos) and Donald Levering (Santa Fe) join us for an intimate Back Porch reading at Jules’ Poetry Playhouse in Placitas, New Mexico. 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).
Leslie Ullman is visiting from Taos for this special event.
Author of four poetry collections and numerous reviews and craft essays, Leslie Ullman taught for twenty-seven years in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas-El Paso, where she established the Bilingual MFA Program. Now a Professor Emerita at UTEP, she continues to teach in the low-residency MFA Writing Program at Vermont College of the Fine Arts, where she has been on the faculty since 1981. She also does freelance manuscript consultations and guest-teaching. Through long experience of mentoring adults and motivated undergraduates, both in academic settings and at writers conferences and retreats, Ullman has developed a teaching/editing style aimed at drawing writers out and helping them not only to discover their potential as thinkers and writers, but also to value the process itself, with all its starts and stops and changes of direction.
Donald Levering joins us from Santa Fe. His Man Moth & The Gospel of Possibility show sold-out in a limited Santa Fe run in May. The book from Poetry Playhouse Publications came to be after Levering read Elizabeth Bishop’s 1935 poem, “The Man-Moth.” Bishop’s poem was inspired by a misprint of the word “Man-Moth” for the word “mammoth” in the New York Times. Levering expanded on the idea of a Man-Moth hybrid being, writing poems that coalesced into a book manuscript. After Santa Fe artist/musician Gary Barten heard Levering read his Man-Moth poems, Barten proposed a show in which he would create music to go with the poems. Levering then developed a script to deliver the poems in a unique style of two intertwining voices. Actor, musician, and impresario Joe West joined the production to voice the part of Man-Moth. Barbara Mehlman contributed the Man-Moth book image and designed the stunning set for the Teatro Paraguas performances. A further synchronicity occurred when Jules Nyquist and John Roche of Poetry Playhouse Publications accepted Levering’s book manuscript and determined it could be published to coincide with the show’s opening. He will be reading selections from the Man-Moth text and new work.
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Doors open 6:30 pm - complimentary pizza, wine, refreshments
Reading starts aprx 7 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.
Featured readers Leslie Ullman (Taos) and Donald Levering (Santa Fe) join us for an intimate Back Porch reading at Jules’ Poetry Playhouse in Placitas, New Mexico. 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).
Leslie Ullman is visiting from Taos for this special event.
Author of four poetry collections and numerous reviews and craft essays, Leslie Ullman taught for twenty-seven years in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas-El Paso, where she established the Bilingual MFA Program. Now a Professor Emerita at UTEP, she continues to teach in the low-residency MFA Writing Program at Vermont College of the Fine Arts, where she has been on the faculty since 1981. She also does freelance manuscript consultations and guest-teaching. Through long experience of mentoring adults and motivated undergraduates, both in academic settings and at writers conferences and retreats, Ullman has developed a teaching/editing style aimed at drawing writers out and helping them not only to discover their potential as thinkers and writers, but also to value the process itself, with all its starts and stops and changes of direction.
Donald Levering joins us from Santa Fe. His Man Moth & The Gospel of Possibility show sold-out in a limited Santa Fe run in May. The book from Poetry Playhouse Publications came to be after Levering read Elizabeth Bishop’s 1935 poem, “The Man-Moth.” Bishop’s poem was inspired by a misprint of the word “Man-Moth” for the word “mammoth” in the New York Times. Levering expanded on the idea of a Man-Moth hybrid being, writing poems that coalesced into a book manuscript. After Santa Fe artist/musician Gary Barten heard Levering read his Man-Moth poems, Barten proposed a show in which he would create music to go with the poems. Levering then developed a script to deliver the poems in a unique style of two intertwining voices. Actor, musician, and impresario Joe West joined the production to voice the part of Man-Moth. Barbara Mehlman contributed the Man-Moth book image and designed the stunning set for the Teatro Paraguas performances. A further synchronicity occurred when Jules Nyquist and John Roche of Poetry Playhouse Publications accepted Levering’s book manuscript and determined it could be published to coincide with the show’s opening. He will be reading selections from the Man-Moth text and new work.
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