Page 1 welcomes A Quartet of Poets on June 2nd at 2pm.
Page One will host a quartet of poets, both local and from the West Coast, for a reading and sharing of works old and new. Join us in welcoming Gary L. Brower of the Malpais Review, Michael C. Ford, E.A. "Tony" Mares and Lauren Camp.
Lauren Camp is the author of This Business of Wisdom (West End Press). She teaches creative writing across northern New Mexico, and writes the poetry blog Which Silk Shirt. Co-Winner of The Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Awards 2012, her poems have recently appeared in J Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Linebreak and World Literature Today. On Sunday evenings, she hosts “Audio Saucepan,” a global music/poetry program on KSFR 101.1FM Santa Fe Public Radio. Online at www.laurencamp.com.
Michael C. Ford is one of the most well known poets in southern California, whose first public reading of his work occurred at a fundraiser for Norman Mailer's failed campaign for New York City Mayor (1969), where he read with well known poets Jack Hirschman and Michael McClure as well as Jim Morrison the lead singer of The Doors, one of the seminal rock groups of the 1960s. Tom Waits has said of Ford, "He's a treasure chest of American pop culture." Film director John Cassavetes has said: "Michael C. Ford takes the time to let his words arrive, always magically, like right now."
E. A. "Tony" Mares has published extensively in local, regional, national, and international venues. This includes six books of poetry, and one of translations of the poems of Ángel González. Tony's poetry books include The Unicorn Poem & Flowers and Songs of Sorrow (Albuquerque: West End Press, 1992); With the Eyes of a Raptor (San Antonio: Wings Press, 2004); his translations of poems by the noted Spanish poet Ángel González, Casi Toda la Música y otros poemas/Almost All the Music and Other Poems (San Antonio: Wings Press, 2007); Astonishing Light: Conversations I Never Had with Patrociño Barela (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010); Río Del Corazón, (Placitas: Voices of the American Land, 2010); the anthology 8 Poets (Fort Worth: Baskerville Publications, 2012).
Gary Brower holds a B.A. degree from Drury University in Spanish & History, M.A. & Ph.D. degrees in Romance Languages & Literatures (minor: Latin American history, 19th Century French literature) from the University of Missouri at Columbia, Mo. He has taught at Baker University (Ks.), Rogue Community College (Or.), University of Kansas, University of New Mexico, University of Southern California, University of California at Los Angeles, University of California at San Diego (visiting), as well as directing academic programs in Barcelona & Madrid, Spain, and Guadalajara, Mexico. A specialist in Hispanic Literature, especially of Latin America, he has published numerous essays in Spanish and English on writers such as Angel Gonzalez, Octavio Paz, Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo, Juan Carlos Onetti, Manoel Bandeira, Ezequiel Martinez Estrada & others, in various academic journals. He has also written two books on the impact of Japanese haiku on western poetry: The Haiku in Spanish American Poetry (Ann Arbor, University Micro) & An Annotated Bibliography of Haiku In Western Languages (with D.W. Foster), (Metuchen, NJ, Scarecrow Press). An Associate Editor of American Haiku magazine in its heydey, he also translated poems of Angel Gonzalez & Pablo Neruda. He also instigated & participated in a bilingual stage production (along with poet E.A. Mares), Para que yo me llame Angel Gonzalez/So that I might be called Angel Gonzalez (a tribute to Spanish poet Angel Gonzalez), with the Teatro Paraguas Theater Group, at the National Hispanic Cultural Center & at the Teatro Paraguas Studio Theater in Santa Fe, in September, 2009, to packed houses. He has also been a panelist-participant in the Albuquerque Cultural Conference. Forthcoming: In Paradise we will become music (a CD with flamenco guitarists Nino David & Luis Campos). Brower was a member of the faculty for the 2012 National Latino Writer's Conference, held at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque (May 16-19, 2012). He is the editor of the Malpais Review, a poetry quarterly (now in its third year), which is now gaining national and international, as well as in-state, attention (See malpaisreview.com, website). Born in Kansas City, Mo., he lives in Placitas, NM.
This event is free and open to the public.