Writing the Animal Within
A book launch reading from Buddha's Cat
and poetry workshop with Santa Fe poet Wayne Lee
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Church of Harmony
609 N. Arizona St., Silver City, NM
Reading at 1 p.m.
Open mic from 2-2:30
Workshop from 2:30-4 p.m.
Workshop cost: $25
Light refreshments will be served.
Human beings share 98 percent of our genome with chimpanzees, 90 percent with cats and 84 percent with dogs. In other words, our animal nature is very much alive within all of us. In this 90-minute workshop, we will look at how other poets have written about animals and we will generate our own new poems through guided meditations.
Writer and teacher Wayne Lee (wayneleepoet.com , This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) lives in Santa Fe, NM. Lee's poems have appeared in Tupelo Press, Slipstream, The New Guard, Writer's Digest and many other journals and anthologies. He was awarded the 2012 Fischer Prize and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and four Best of the Net Awards. His collection The Underside of Light was a finalist for the 2014 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award. His memoir Service Husband: A Caregiver's Journey Through Disability, Suicide and Recovery is forthcoming from Mercury Heartlink in January 2025 and his collection Dining on Salt: Four Seasons of Septets is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press in April 2025.
