Reading Also Launches Chapbook Series
Lisa Gill will celebrate receiving a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship by reading with friends on Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. in the University of New Mexico Student Union building Santa Ana rooms. The reading is free and open to the public. Gill is a first year master of fine arts student in the creative writing program and author of “Red as a Lotus: Letters to a Dead Trappist” (La Alameda Press, 2002) and “Mortar & Pestle” (New Rivers Press, 2006).
Photo: Lisa Gill
At this reading, she will showcase the 10 poems from her application to the NEA as well as recent work. She will also introduce some of her literary co-conspirators and formative teachers and highlight one of her projects from last year, Poetry-n-Jazz, as well as two of her current editing projects – the Donkey Journal and Unicycle, a chapbook award for writers with disabilities which will launch with a posthumous collection by Lee Wilson.
Guests include Mitch Rayes, Chris Wrenn, Skye Pratt, Robert Arthur Reeves, Mary Rising Higgins and Gene Frumkin, as well as a special appearance from TH3 E1EMENTAL ORKE5TRA, a trio with Mike Balistreri on bass, percussion and toys, Mark Weaver on tuba and Jonathon Baldwin on cornet.
For more information, contact Liz Shaw at lizshaw@unm.edu.
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