Teatro Paraguas to Host Glenna Luschei Poetry Reading, 7/18

By: Jun. 26, 2015
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Nationally-recognized poets Glenna Luschei, Marsha de la O, and Kendall McCook will read from their respective books of poetry at Teatro Paraguas for one performance only on Friday, July 18 at 7:00 pm.

Glenna Luschei's latest book is The Sky is Shooting Blue Arrows from the University of New Mexico Press. She has published Solo Press books and magazines for 50 years and will now be publishing translations. She spends her time between North Carolina and San Luis Obispo, California, where she was inducted as Poet Laureate of City and County in the year 2000.

Marsha de la O's new book, Antidote for Night, won the 2015 Isabella Gardner Award and was published by BOA Editions. Her first book, Black Hope, received the New Issues Poetry Prize from the University of Western Michigan and an Editor's Choice Award. Her work has been anthologized in Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals (Ballantine), and Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems from California (Greenhouse Review Press). She is the recipient of the 2014 Morton Marcus Poetry Award.

Kendall McCook is a poet and storyteller born in Clayton, New Mexico. He taught in Clayton , Springer, and Cimarron high schools and farmed for many years in the Springer and Clayton area. He now lives in an old tree-shaded two-story house in the Fairmount Historical district in Fort Worth, Texas, and he spends much of the summer with friends writing and reading poetry in his homeland. His work celebrates the land and the people who live close to Mother Earth.

Poet, editor, and translator Glenna Luschei was born in the midwest but has lived in Colombia, New Mexico, North Carolina and California. She studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and earned her MA in English at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln and her MA in Spanish at the University of California - Santa Barbara. She's been the director of the performing arts and activist group India, Inc since 1975, and has worked as the editor-publisher of Solo Press since 1967. Her nineteen books include Back into My Body and New Poems (Mille Grazie P, 1994), Matriarch (The Smith, 1992), Shot With Eros and Pianos Around the Cape (Aspermont P, 1999). Of her Nebraska roots, she says, "I dream most about my grandfather's 'farm' in Furnas County near Beaver City where I lived as a child. He had come to Red Cloud in a covered wagon before the turn of the century and became the county defender, starting a family tradition that includes my brother John Stevens Berry and my son, Erich." She was named Poet Laureate of San Luis Obispo, California, where she lives. In midst of the 2001 celebration of Prairie Schooner, she announced a major gift to endow the editorship of the magazine. Of the gift, Prairie Schooner editor Hilda Raz said, "Glenna's philanthropy not only assures Prairie Schooner another 75 years and more of continuing vibrant life, but makes possible creative and interdisciplinary projects previously impossible to publish."

Poetry readings at Teatro Paraguas are made possible in part by the generous support of the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. Teatro Paraguas is the recipient of the New Mexico Literary Society Gratitude Award for 2015.



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