In person at Jules’ Poetry Playhouse - Back Porch Reading series

featuring New York visiting poet Scott Wiilliams and Albuquerque poet Sharon Niederman

reading from new works, followed by conversation.

Back Porch readings are limited seating and include pizza from Placitas Pizza (veggie and gluten free options available), wine/beer/lemonade in an intimate and beautiful setting. Summer solstice time with usually a fabulous sunset viewed from Jules’ Poetry Playhouse Back Porch. Authors will have books for sale and will sign copies. Poetry Playhouse bookstore and art gallery will be open.

Join poet Claudia Stanek and friends for the release of her new book, Beneath Occluded Shine

with Denton Loving, Catherine Faurot, and Gail Hosking, Bennington MFA Writing Seminars alumni.

Hosted by Jules Nyquist and John Roche

followed by open mic

Note this is WED April 30th (different from our usual time)

6 pm Pacific, 7 pm Mountain, 8 pm Central, 9 pm Eastern

Jules Nyquist and Claudia Stanek are Bennington Writing Seminars alumni class of 2007. Denton Loving and Catherine Faurot are also a Bennington Writing Seminars alum.

It’s a pleasure to welcome Claudia to our featured reading series, along with our Bennington family! Jules created the collage cover for Claudia’s book.

Fifty years after Pablo Neruda completed his Book of Questions, Claudia Stanek bravely reaches back through time—long before Neruda, into the deepest parts of our shared humanity—in search of answers. Threaded with the spiritual, the historical, and the natural, Stanek weaves together these 16 short but powerful poems in Beneath Occluded Shine that embrace the surreal, push up against the paradoxical, and remind readers that sometimes a question can only be answered with another question.

–Denton Loving, author of Tamp

Claudia Stanek‘s Beneath Occluded Shine is filled with questions of life and death–what’s here, what’s gone. Nature with its clouds, land and sea mingle with the invisible as well as language. At the same time, a ribbon of the divine, like a reverent of seasons, winds itself through her lines, as she deals with what must be kept for the living. Her use of rhyme blends into the sounds of what comes before and what comes afterwards in this topography of disappearances and returns.
Fireplaces, foundries, forest, foliage, full…”a standard of tender remains.”

–Gail Hosking, author of the memoir Snake’s Daughter and poetry books, The Tug and Retrieval.

Claudia Stanek‘s poems answer Neruda’s Book of Questions with her own expansive and cantatory meditations. This book is a harmonic and lyric duet, each poem a distillation of the poet wrestling with life.

–Catherine Faurot, author of Theology of the Broken.

Claudia M. Stanek‘s work has been turned into a libretto, been part of an art exhibition, and been translated into Polish. Her poems exist online, in print, and in her chapbook, Language You Refuse to Learn. She holds an MFA from Bennington College.

Join us for a special talk and celebration with Dr. Jules Nyquist!

There will be pie! Free.

 A poet’s PhD journey: Living in the world with a practice of poetry

Join Dr. Jules Nyquist for a lecture and poetry reading about her doctoral research on poetic inquiry, and the transformative power of poetry and play as a way of living in the world.

Date: Sunday, March 9, 2025
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Location: HERE Gallery, 1704C Llano Street, St. Michael's Village West, Santa Fe, NM 87505
Admission: Free (Pie included!)

Santa Fe, NM –HERE Gallery Santa Fe announces a unique event celebrating the transformative journey of Dr. Jules Nyquist as she shares insights from her doctoral research. This free event will include a lecture by Dr. Nyquist, including poetry, a Q&A session, and a celebration with pie!

During her talk, Dr. Nyquist will explore these themes and ask the important question: How can we live in the world with poetry as a core identity?

A first-generation college student in her 60s, Jules Nyquist, Ph.D., will also share her personal journey balancing full-time work, school, poetry activities, and family life. She reflects on her transformational experience as an online doctoral student during the pandemic. Dr. Nyquist’s dissertation is dedicated to her poetry instructor participants and to all poets who seek to keep the practice of poetry as a form of inquiry and a way of living in the world. Dr. Nyquist is the founder of Jules’ Poetry Playhouse, a place for poetry classes, readings, and the philosophy of play within adult learning.

Special guest poet Tina Carlson will introduce Dr. Nyquist, setting the stage for an engaging and meaningful afternoon. The event is free, and pie will be served to celebrate Dr. Nyquist’s Ph.D. journey. All are welcome to attend, and no RSVP is necessary.

About HERE Gallery 562-243-6148.
HERE Gallery is a creative space dedicated to fostering community and artistic expression in Santa Fe, NM. Through a wide range of events, exhibitions, and talks, the gallery serves as a hub for artistic exploration and dialogue.

HERE GALLERY 562-243-6148

1704c Llano St. Santa Fe, NM 87505

Dr. Jules Nyquist researched the experiences of adult poetry instructors as they used poetic inquiry for stress management in their classroom settings. Four themes emerged from her study in this ambiguous, circular, and collaborative process.

1. Lens of Perception

2. Breath and Value of Voice

3. Community and Culture

4. Diligent Practice of Identity

How can we live in the world with poetry as a core identity?

As a first-generation college student in her 60s, she will share her transformational journey of balancing full-time work, school, poetry activities, and family life. Her backyard labyrinth in Placitas, NM, provided a focus for the many walks over four years during the pandemic when she was a doctoral student online. This talk and her dissertation are dedicated to her poet instructor participants and to all poets who want to keep the practice of poetry as inquiry, or a way of living in the world.

Featured is our revisit of the Poets Speak Anthology published by Poetry Playhouse Publications starting in 2017….. apt for a revisit in these turbulent times. John Roche and Jules Nyquist will share the story of the original Poets Speak Anthologies and the book launches and charitable gifts that followed.

The February 25 edition of the Poetry Playhouse Zoom is dedicated to the 8-year anniversary of the “Poets Speak (while we still can)” anthology series, which John and Jules conceived of shortly before the 2017 Inauguration of the Orange Menace. Five volumes were published. Trumped and Hers in the spring of 2017, Water in the summer of 2017, Walls and Survival in 2018. 

During the first hour, we will discuss the history of the series and the necessity of resistance poetry today. We will also hear a few poems by contributors Demetria Martinez, Denise Weaver Ross, Larry Goodell, Bart White, Bill Nevins, and John Macker.

6 pm Pacific, 7 pm Mountain, 8 pm Central, 9 pm Eastern

Zoom conversation and reading with Lise Goett and Mark Wunderlich followed by open mic

Hosted by Jules Nyquist and John Roche

Lise Goett (Taos) and Mark Wunderlich (New York) join us live in conversation to talk about and read from their new books and all things poetry. Lise reads from her new book, The Radiant.

Lise Goett’s work has garnered numerous prizes, including the 2012 winner of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award in Poetry from the Poetry Society of America, The Paris Review Discovery Award, the Pen Southwest Book Award in Poetry, and the Barnard New Women Poets Prize for her first collection, Waiting for the Paraclete (Beacon Press, 2002) and more recently, The Palette Journal Spotlight Prize and a grant from New Mexico Writers for The Radiant. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including the Paris Review, Ploughshares, Image, Mandorla, Lana Turner Journal and the Antioch Review.  She holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Iowa, an M.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from N.Y.U., and an M.F.A. from the Writing Division of Columbia University.

Mark Wunderlich is the author of four books of poems, the most recent of which is God of Nothingness, published by Graywolf Press. His other books include The Earth Avails, which received the Rilke Prize, Voluntary Servitude, and The Anchorage, which received the Lambda Literary Award. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the NEA, the Amy Lowell Trust, and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program at Stanford University. He has published poems in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The New Republic, and elsewhere, and his work has been widely anthologized. He is Executive Director of the Bennington Writing Seminars graduate writing program in Vermont and lives in New York’s Hudson Valley. Author photo credit Beowulf Sheehan.  

Join us in Magdalena, NM at the kind of a small array gallery

Jules Nyquist, John Roche, Bruce Holsapple

2 pm - free - books for sale

Jules Nyquist reads from Atomic Paradise and new poems

John Roche reads from Tubbables

Bruce Holsapple reads his latest

Also Jules’ birthday!

Thanks to Hills Snyder, our wonderful host and gallery owner

kind of a small array

106 N Main, Magdalena, New Mexico

A project of artist Hills Snyder, kind of a small array is a humble space for art, poetry, and music. Set up like a lounge in an artist's studio, the space invites interaction. During evening events the lounge moves out onto the sidewalk for lingering and conversation.

https://kindofasmallarray.com/

Jules’ Poetry Playhouse will have a book table at this event! Thanks to the NM State Poetry Society. All welcome.

This unique outdoor event celebrates art, poetry, and nature with live poetry and music performances, and is free and open to the public.

Morning activities include a Haiku Workshop taught by Miriam Sagan, to sign-up call (505)768-4950; Escribiente Society calligraphy demonstrations and Weathergrams created to order; plus, Poets Picnic Chapbooks and poetry book sales. 

There is an all-afternoon poetry reading sponsored by the New Mexico State Poetry Society with featured poets Michelle Holland, Donald Levering, Diane Thiel, and Mark Weber. Music feature is the J.D. Smooth Duo.

Participants may bring a picnic lunch or purchase food truck fare and refreshments. Visitors are invited to walk the grounds while viewing original poems on Weathergrams, brown paper tags tied to trees and bushes. The short poems known as haiku are by New Mexico poets, beautifully rendered by Escribiente Society calligraphers. Chapbooks of these poems, hand-sewn by LIBROS New Mexico Book Arts Guild members, are available for sale to benefit the Open Space Alliance, a volunteer organization that supports Open Space activities. Local small presses offer poetry books for sale as part of the festivities.