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 performance was in a limited Santa Fe run in May. The book Man-Moth (Poetry Playhouse Publications) came into existence 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 eventually coalesced into a book manuscript. After Santa Fe artist Gary Barten heard Levering read some of his Man-Moth poems, Barten proposed a show in which he would create music to go with the poems. Mehlman was already on board to provide art for the book, so it was natural to invite her to create the central Man-Moth image and the setting for the performance at Teatro Paraguas. Levering had witnessed MacNeice’s stage performance and recognized how her powerful voice reading the poems would enhance the project. A further synchronicity occurred when Jules Nyquist and John Roche of Poetry Playhouse Publications accepted Levering’s book manuscript, Man-Moth & The Gospel of Possibility, and determined it could be published to coincide with the show’s opening.
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 performance was in a limited Santa Fe run in May. The book Man-Moth (Poetry Playhouse Publications) came into existence 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 eventually coalesced into a book manuscript. After Santa Fe artist Gary Barten heard Levering read some of his Man-Moth poems, Barten proposed a show in which he would create music to go with the poems. Mehlman was already on board to provide art for the book, so it was natural to invite her to create the central Man-Moth image and the setting for the performance at Teatro Paraguas. Levering had witnessed MacNeice’s stage performance and recognized how her powerful voice reading the poems would enhance the project. A further synchronicity occurred when Jules Nyquist and John Roche of Poetry Playhouse Publications accepted Levering’s book manuscript, Man-Moth & The Gospel of Possibility, and determined it could be published to coincide with the show’s opening.
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