Join poets KATE O’NEILL and DALE KUSHNER with TINA CARLSON on March 30 at 4:00 PM MDT as they explore universal questions of the mind and heart.

O’Neill and Kushner will read, followed by a Q&A, moderated by Carlson.

A Free In-Person Event at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Pavilion

DALE KUSHNER, poet, essayist, novelist, will read from her new book, M, which is a collection of poems in the voices of women who never appear in history books. The poems explore those twin spectaculars, love and loss. Kushner’s essays can be found at Transcending the Past, her monthly online column for PsychologyToday.com.

KATE O’NEILL’s poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She will handprint a limited edition of her new poetry title, “EMULSIFYING FIRES: Ansel Adams in New Mexico,” on a 1909 wrought-iron letterpress. https://www.dreamingdogbooks.net​.

O’Neill is currently working on a poetry collection “Boats of Glass” centering on​ Irish family, in culture, place, politics and myth.

TINA CARLSON’​S third collection of poetry, A Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery was published in 2023.

Please join Dale Kushner and Leslie Ullman for a free poetry reading on Friday, April 5 at 5:30 PM MT at SOMOS, 108 Civic Plaza Drive, Taos, NM

DALE M. KUSHNER is a novelist, poet, and essayist. Her debut novel, The Conditions of Love, published by Grand Central, was nominated for the Texas Library Association Award for Outstanding Adult Fiction. Her study of Jungian psychology and dreamwork informs Transcending the Past, her popular monthly online column for Psychology Today. She has been recently honored by the Pushcart Prize 2024 for special mention in poetry. Her short fiction has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Kushner’s widely regarded writings on the divine feminine, creativity, and intergenerational trauma are published in anthologies and collected works. Her essays have been published in Strange Attractors: Lives Changed by Chance (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019), Jung’s Red Book For Our Time: Searching for Soul Under Postmodern Conditions, Volume 4 (Chiron Publications, 2020), Jewish Currents, Bark, and elsewhere. She is currently working on her second novel. M is Dale’s new collection of poetry.

LESLIE ULLMAN is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The You That All Along Has Housed You: A Sequence (Nine Mile Press, 2019) and a hybrid collection of craft essays, writing exercises and poems titled Library of Small Happiness (3: A Taos Press, 2017). A new collection based on Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies, titled Unruly Tree, will be published in 2024 by University of New Mexico Press. Professor Emerita at U.T.-El Paso where she taught for 27 years, she remains a faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at Vermont College of the Fine Arts. Her awards include the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, the Iowa Poetry Prize, two NEA fellowships and a New Mexico/Arizona Book Award for poetry. Leslie is a freelance manuscript consultant and ski instructor at Taos Ski Valley. Her website is www.leslieullman.com

A Celebration of an Online Poetry Community

Since March 2020, cohorts of poets from Vancouver to Dubai and Katmandu has been convening and corresponding and exchanging poems by e-mail through generative marathons coordinated by Taos poet-editor, Lise Goett. Six alums out of the more than 100 participants in this online community will read a sampling of the work they have generated under the aegis of these generative workshops. The six poets are Will Barnes, Mike Burwell, Tina Carlson, Dale M. Kushner, Kate O’Neill, and Lise Goett.

WHEN: Sunday, February 19, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. MT

COST: Free to the Public – Donations Appreciated

Join us for coffee and a conversation with Dale M. Kushner about her new poetry collection, M, at Write On, Door County on Saturday, September 24 at 10 AM. This event is free but registration is required as space is limited. You can register here.

Dale M. Kushner’s new collection M testifies to the heroic dimensions of women’s lives. The urgent voices in these poems, including Mary Magdalene, Eve, the Virgin Mary, and women experiencing violence across centuries and continents, are bearers of the sacred into the profane world of history–of men and war. Addressing both personal and collective struggles through a series of dramatic monologues, the speakers explore both radical and tender moments that break through the myths perpetuated in the name of the feminine. Ultimately, these poems become an enduring map of how resilience is forged from suffering and how desire, loss, and struggle are the spiritual path to transformation.

Dale M. Kushner is a poet, essayist, novelist, and a longtime investigator of the intersection between the collective value of literature, archetypal psychology, and spirituality. In addition, she writes a monthly blog for the Pyschology Today website, “Transcending the Past.” Her debut novel, The Conditions of Love, was published by Grand Central in 2013. Her essay, “In Extremis: Jung’s Descent into the Language of Self,” is included in Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul Under Postmodern Conditions, Vol 4. Dale lives with her husband Burt in Madison, Wisconsin. She has just completed her second novel, The Lost Mother Archive, which explores how the unspoken intergenerational traumas of the past shape our lives.

Join us on Saturday, June 25, 2022 at 7 PM CDT at Arts + Literature Laboratory to hear three poets read in person from their new books! Former Wisconsin Poet Laureate Marilyn L. Taylor will be reading from Outside the Frame: New and Selected Poems (Kelsay Books); Jess Parker will read from her debut poetry collection Star Things, which won the Dynamo Verlag Book Prize; and Dale Kushner (the author, not the hockey player) will read from her brand-new poetry collection M. The event is free but donations are encouraged. More about the event.

MARILYN L. TAYLOR
Marilyn L. Taylor, Ph.D., is a former Poet Laureate of the state of Wisconsin and the city of Milwaukee. She taught poetry for the Honors College at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for fifteen years, and is the author of eight poetry collections. Taylor’s poems and essays have also appeared in Poetry, Able Muse, Measure, Light, Raintown Review, and Rhino, among many other well-known journals and anthologies. She was awarded the Margaret Reid Poetry Prize for verse in forms, and has been a finalist for the X.J. Kennedy Parody Contest, the Howard Nemerov Sonnet award, and the 2017 Lascaux Review prize. She teaches regularly at Lawrence University’s Bjorklunden Seminar Center and elsewhere, and serves as a Contributing Editor for two poetry journals (Verse-Virtual and Third Wednesday). Her newest book, titled Outside the Frame: New and Selected Poems, was published by Kelsay Books in December, 2021 and is available for purchase on Amazon or directly from Marilyn at her email address: mlt@mltpoet.com.

JESS L. PARKER
Jess L Parker is a poet and strategist. Originally from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Jess lives in Madison, WI with her husband and son. Her debut poetry collection, Star Things was released in October 2021 as winner of the Dynamo Verlag Book Prize. Jess’s work has appeared in Bramble, Ariel Anthology, Kosmos, Millwork, Wallop Zine, and elsewhere. Jess holds a B.A. of English and Spanish from Northern Michigan University, an M.A. of Spanish Literature from UW-Madison, and an MBA from Concordia University. Stay in touch with Jess’ poetry and events on Instagram at @jessleapoetry.

DALE KUSHNER
Dale M. Kushner is a poet, essayist, and novelist deeply engaged at the intersection of personal and historic trauma and views the search for spirit as foundational to the creative process. Her study of Jungian psychology informs Transcending the Past her popular monthly online column for Psychology Today. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, received a Wisconsin Arts Board Grant and has been honored by fellowships to the Wurlitzer Foundation, The Ragdale Foundation, and the Fetzer Institute. Her novel, The Conditions of Love, published by Grand Central, was nominated for the Texas Library Association Award for Outstanding Adult Fiction. Kushner’s widely regarded writings on the divine feminine, creativity, and intergenerational trauma are published in anthologies and collected works. She teaches workshops that reflect her scholarship in Buddhism, depth psychology, spirituality, and creative writing. She recently completed her second novel. M is Ms. Kushner’s new collection of poetry.