Celebrate the release of Resurrection Kisses - the new book of poems by visiting New York poet George Wallace - along with Santa Fe poet John Macker reading from Alchemy of Headwinds.
Join us at Jules Poetry Playhouse in beautiful Placitas, New Mexico! Reading and celebration, books for sale, refreshments. Free.
Hosted by Jules Nyquist & John Roche
Resurrection Kisses is published by Poetry Playhouse Publications
Books and author signings at event. If you want George’s book, you an order here! We may have signed copies available after the event. .
George Wallace lives in Huntington, NY. He is Writer-in-Residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace Museum, author of 42 chapbooks of poetry, editor of NYC from the Inside Out (Blue Light Press), and creator of Poets Building Bridges: An International Triangulation Project. Music albums with his poems as lyrics include Sappho's Little Boat (Omonoia Circus, Athens Greece), Plains of Po (Ana Spasic/Francesco Paladino, Donemus, Netherlands), Nowheresville(Poetrybay Creative, NYC), Blowing Through Secaucus (Poetrybay Creative, NYC), and Resurrection Song (Poetrybay Creative, NYC).GEORGE WALLACE lives in Huntington, NY. He is Writer-in-Residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace Museum, author of 42 chapbooks of poetry, editor of NYC from the Inside Out (Blue Light Press), and creator of Poets Building Bridges: An International Triangulation Project. Music albums with his poems as lyrics include Sappho's Little Boat (Omonoia Circus, Athens Greece), Plains of Po (Ana Spasic/Francesco Paladino, Donemus, Netherlands), Nowheresville(Poetrybay Creative, NYC), Blowing Through Secaucus (Poetrybay Creative, NYC), and Resurrection Song (Poetrybay Creative, NYC).
Award-winning poet/playwright/essayist John Macker lives in Santa Fe, NM. John was the recipient of Mad Blood magazine’s 2006 first annual literary arts award for the long poem, “Wyoming Arcane.” He’s also the recipient of the 2001 Colorado Arts “Tombstone” Award for poetry, presented in Denver. He has been awarded a Colorado Council on the Arts grant for his arts periodical, HARP and has been nominated for 2 Pushcart Small Press Prizes. His recent essays on poets and poetry can be found in New Mexico’s Malpais Review (where he was contributing editor), Cultural Weekly, Lummox Journal and Miriam’s Well, and his essay on the late pop artist John Chamberlain, “Without Fear or Crowbars” was published in the 2016 Chamberlain exhibit catalogue, Wickets. John has worked as a journalist and given readings, lectured and taught workshops at colleges and festivals throughout the West, including El Paso Community College, Sparrows Poetry Festival, Venus in the Badlands, Santa Fe, NM, Colorado Mountain College, Colorado Mesa University, Edward Abbey Conference, Moab, Utah; Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO, Karen Chamberlain Poetry Festival, the Harwood Museum, Taos, NM, the Duende Poetry Series, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, and Ziggie’s Poetry Festival in Denver. In 2009, his books were featured in A Mile High and Underground, an exhibit of Denver literary history, Auraria Campus, sponsored by the Colorado Historical Society. He is on the board of directors of the Frank Waters Foundation.