Teatro Paraguas to Host Poetry Reading, 3/29

Teatro Paraguas will host a poetry reading with former Santa Fe poet laureate Joan Logghe, Mary McGinnis, and Sy Baldwin on Sunday, March 29 at 5:00 pm. All three are published poets, and their books will be for sale at the reading.

The reading is free, and donations to Teatro Paraguas are most welcome. Teatro Paraguas is located at 3205 Calle Marie in Santa Fe. Refreshments will be served. For further information, please call Teatro Paraguas at 505-424-1601 or visit www.teatroparaguas.org.

Joan Logghe was Poet Laureate of Santa Fe 2010-2012. She works at poetry and arts activism in community, off the academic grid in La Puebla, New Mexico. She and her husband, Michael, raised three children and have three grandchildren. She studied at Tufts University where she graduated as Class Poet and won an Academy of American Poet's College Poetry Award. Joan began a life in poetry by volunteering at her children's school thirty years ago and has worked with children and youth as well as adults, ever since.

Awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry Grants, A Mabel Dodge Luhan Internship, and a Barbara Deming/Money for Women grant. She taught poetry in Bratislava, Vienna, and Zagreb, Croatia in 2004. Joan was Santa Fe's Poet Laureate from 2010-2012. She has authored or edited a dozen books and her most recent books are The Singing Bowl from UNM press and Love & Death, Tres Chicas Books, with Miriam Sagan and Renée Gregorio, a New Mexico Book Award winner.

Mary McGinnis has been writing and living in New Mexico since 1972. Her work has been published in over 70 magazines and anthologies. The terrain and spaciousness of New Mexico have inspired her to write poems about nature, love, andeath. She has published two full length collections, Listening for Cactus(1996) and October Again (2008). As a licensed professional counselor she enjoys serving couples and people with both hidden and visible disabilities. As a woman who is blind, she is inspired to write about the disability experience, as well. She participates in three writing groups where lots of laughter, writing, and sharing of good food and words takes place. Mary received the first New Mexico Literary Arts Board Gratitude Award in 2009. Most recently, she has had work in Fixed and Free Anthology 2015, Lummox III, and Malpais Review. Coming up, her work will be featured in the Spring issue of Malpais Review and a reading with Kathamann in Albuquerque in April 2015. Mary loves taking part in the monthly open readings at Teatro Paraguas.

Sy Margaret Baldwin was born and raised in the West Midlands of England. Presently she lives in the Sierra of California where she worked from 1992 to 2008 as a Wildlife Technician for the Stanislaus National Forest.Her poems has been published widely in literary magazines including Poetry Now, Tule Review, Third Wednesday, Common Ground Review, Calyx, and the Sow's Ear Poetry Review. Her poetry collection, Signal Fires, was published by Word Project Press in October 2014.