Roslye Ultan will be the featured poet (10 minutes) at Albuquerque Chatter on Sunday, November 16th. Starts promptly at 10:30 am, Doors open 9:30 am. Free coffee with admission.

Nigel Westlake Omphalo Centric Lecture for four marimbas
Luke Gullickson Garden for two marimbas
Gene Koshinski 360 for two percussionists
J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 (arr. Jeff Cornelius for six marimbas and continuo)

Jeff Cornelius, Alan Zimmerman, Sean Umstead, Diana Sharpe, Alexis Corbin, Hovey Corbin marimbas
Luke Gullickson keyboard

Roslye Ultan spoken word

Roslye Ultan is a Professor Emeritus from UNM/CCE Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Program with a specialty in Art History/and Visual Culture. She was awarded two grants from the Institute on the Environment for exhibitions and workshops on the intersection of the arts and environmental sciences. Ultan has written articles and presented at conferences on the connections of the common trail of art and science; she further chooses to express ideas about the natural environment crisis and its beauty in poetic form, drawing on personal experience, which articulate imminent social and spiritual yearnings. Her poetry has been published in A Poets Speak Anthology: Hers, vol 2, Water vol 3, Walls, vol 4, Survival, vol 5; Echoes of Voices of Wisdom, the Waters of Creation, North Stone Review, Blues Moon Journal, among others. She will be reading from her book of poetry, Convergence, which features poems with musical rhythms and lyrical forms. In this collection, she chronicles her journey encompassing childhood, marriage and widowhood, travel, heritage, traditions, and spiritual reflections. She writes, Spread wide/ to unknown places/ plant your sacred seed in generative emerald groves.

Roslye Ultan holds degrees from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, BA; American University, D.C. MA; and Post-Graduate Fellow of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. She is the widow of composer Lloyd Ultan and lives in Minneapolis.