07/17/2021
Tierra Amarilla Theater Club
Invites You To
Mi Cultura Cura: Healing Through Culture
Community Writing Workshop
Facilitated by New Mexico's Poet Laureate Levi Romero & Professor Michelle Hall Kells Monday July 19, 2021
Tierra Amarilla Theater Club
28 State Rd. 531
4:00-8:00 p.m.
Workshop is free and open to all ages. No writing experience necessary. Registration required. Please bring water bottle; notebook, pencil, and copy of photo (recent or vintage) of a place you “called home.” The workshop is followed by dinner with music by Keith Sanchez.
Call to register: 575-588-0450 or 505-514-1112
Levi Romero is the first Poet Laureate of New Mexico and Professor of Chicano Studies at UNM. He is the author of A Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works, In the Gathering of Silence and Sagrado: A Photopoetics Across the Chicano Homeland and co-editor of a collection of essays Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland and Metamorfosis: New Mexico Women Writers, Bilingual Anthology.
Sponsored by
Michelle Hall Kells is Professor of Rhetoric and Writing in the Department of English at UNM. Her books include Vicente
Ximenes, LBJ’s Great Society,
and
Mexican American Civil Rights Rhetoric. She co-edited Latina Leadership: Language
and Literacy Education Across Communities. She is working on several books including Women and the Mining of “The
Salt of the Earth”: Public Rhetoric, Cultural Resistance, and Cold War Politic and a memoir, Ginny: An Archeology of
Women, Writing, and Wilderness and an eco-poetry collection, The San Joaquin River Club.
