Santa Fe Poets 5 An event for Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography

Santa Fe Poet Laureate Jon Davis hosts the fifth of six readings he has organized in and around Santa Fe. In honor of the ongoing exhibit, Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography, he brings together five notable poets for a free reading in the History Museum auditorium. Enjoy readings from Chee Brossy, Joan Logghe, Carol Moldaw, Henry Shukman, and Farren Stanley.(Davis’s tenure as Poet Laureate ends in June.) Free.

Davis has been a member of the Creative Writing faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts since 1990. He is a noted poet who has published six collections of poetry. In 2012, the City of Santa Fe selected him as the city’s fourth Poet Laureate.

He has received a number of awards for his poetry, including two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the G.E. Younger Writers Award, the Lavan Prize from the Academy of American Poets, a Lannan Residenc, a Cill Rialaig residency, and a fellowship to The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

In addition to poetry and fiction, he has written scripts for short films that have screened at the National Geographic All Roads Film Festival, National Museum of the American Indian Film & Video Festival, The American Indian Film Festival, The imagineNATIVE  Film + Media Arts Festival, and on Movieola: The Short Film Channel in Canada.

He occasionally appears as the performance poet, Chuck Calabreze.