The Poetry of Light A writing workshop for Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography

Join Santa Fe Poet Laureate Jon Davis for “The Poetry of Light,” a writing workshop based on Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography. Open to high schoolers and older, the session will bring participants into the exhibit gallery to study pinhole photographs and inhabit them imaginatively using a variety of approaches. Let language carry you toward and away from the images. Draft poems that engage what’s in front of you—and explore what isn’t there but is only suggested by these often mysterious photographs. Free; make a reservation by calling 505-476-5096.

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.