Alzheimer’s Poetry Project Poetry and Bookmaking Party

Hosted by the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project (APP) and the New Mexico History Museum. The featured reader Santa Fe poet and winner of the 2017 Lummox Poetry Award, Mary McGinnis, will talk about her experience in being the guest artist for the APP. McGinnis led two workshops at local assisted living centers for people living with memory loss.

Tom Leech, the Director of the Press at the Palace of the Governors, will lead people attending the event, in creating their own books from marbled paper. Joining in the reading will be APP Executive Director, Gary Glazner, past Poetry Laureate of Santa Fe, Joan Logghe and award winning poet Anne Valley-Fox. The theme of the reading is books.

Event held in the Meem room-space limited

Enter in at the Washington street entrance-bottled water only please