Growing Up Girl       

April 25-26. 2008

A PEN NM Program on Young Women in Young Adult Literature

In Collaboration with the O’Keeffe Arts & Leadership for Girls Program

    

EVENTS FROM OUR ARCHIVES:

October 2007,

POEMS FROM GUANTÁNAMO—A READING & DISCUSSION
Betty Kersting • Ronald Christ • Nancy Fay *Lucy Lippard • Linda Durham • Mary-Charlotte Domandi

 

July*2007

A World of Many Worlds: Crossing Borders through Literature
Activist/writer Jeff Conant

April*2007

Truth or Fiction in the Post-James Frey World

Panel Discussion with Carol Franco, Kent Lineback, Lisa Dale Norton, and Candelora Versace

March*2007

Dawn Wink

Language and Power

 

February*2007

Poet Deborah Bogen

Landscape with Silos

 

Friday November 3, 2006 at 5:30 pm.

La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe

 

Thursday • March 16 • 2006

An Intimate Literary Reception with A.S. Byatt

Author: Possession, Angels and Insects, A Whistling Woman

Admission includeD Modern Library cloth edition of Possession with a new author's introduction

Pranzo Italian Grill, upstairs

 

Saturday • May 8 • 2004

POETIC JUSTICE
College of Santa Fe campus • Forum Building • St. Michael's Drive • Santa Fe
Open to the public • FREE
Donations to the Bill Nevins Defense Fund will be accepted

PEN New Mexico, the Creative Writing Program at the College of Santa Fe, and the New Mexico chapter of the National Writers Union jointly presentied a program of POETIC JUSTICE. This event celebrated free speech and supported the legal defense of Rio Rancho teacher Bill Nevins who was fired because his students were writing and reading poetry against the war in Iraq.

Monday • March 29 • 2004
Wheelwright Museum Library • 704 Camino Lejo • Santa Fe
A PASSION FOR LIVING LANGUAGES

PEN New Mexico will presented a public talk entitled Breath on the Mirror: Living Voices and Visions by distinguished authors and ethnographers Barbara and Dennis Tedlock. As passionate advocates of multilingualism, the Tedlocks will present a dialogue on the politics and poetics of language diversity in the Americas performed in Zuni, K'iche' Maya, Spanish, and English.

 

Thursday • November 20 • 2003
Prize Winning South African Novelist to Lecture on Terrorism

PEN NM Board Member Mark Behr spoke on "A Tale of Two Towers: Language, Terrorism, and Another Moment in History." Mark discussed the relationship between power and language in times of American political and social upheaval. He’ll also explore lessons learned by other nations in similar situations.

 

Monday • December 8 • 2003
Sabra Moore • Poetry, Pumpkins, and the Roots of Literacy at the Farmers Market

PEN New Mexico presented a free public talk and slide show by artist, writer, and market manager Sabra Moore based on her work with the growers at the Espanola Farmers Market over the last four years. Moore showed slides from the market's annual Biggest Vegetable & Best Poem Contest and exhibit the four poetry books written by children and adults which she has produced from these contests. Moore also described how the free Kid's Book Exchange, which began as a basket and a few handfuls of books, now circulates over 1500 books each season and has become a successful market institution.