Released: June 13, 2025
Register at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/July2025MS for free online reading and discussion
Author Miriam Sagan, photo by Matt Morrow
Santa Fe Community College Library will present “Herding Poems: A Reading by Miriam Sagan” from 5 to 6:15 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) on Thursday, July 31. The free online poetry event begins with a half-hour reading by Sagan who will read from her latest book, “What Solitude Sees in Me: Uncollected Poems 1976-2023,” published by Casa Urraca Press in Abiquiú. The second half will be an open discussion on how to put a poetry manuscript together. Register at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/July2025MS to be sent an online link on the morning of the event.
About Sagan’s book, “What Solitude Sees in Me: Uncollected Poems 1976-2023”
When Sagan was approaching 70, she started to sort her files of “uncollected” poems. These poems had been published in magazines, but not in books. Did they merit being collected? The answer was that most did not, but there was a book-length manuscript that could be assembled. These poems begin in the mid-1970s and run to the present. They are quirkier, perhaps more eccentric than her more publicly accessible writing.
Poet Carol Moldaw calls the book “Lyric, imagist, and visionary” and writer John Macker says, “A generous and illuminating tour of words.”
Format for “Herding Poems: A Reading by Miriam Sagan”
Participants are invited to come share in the experience of excavating poetry, memory, landscape, and a life in New Mexico. The event begins with a half-hour reading by Sagan from “What Solitude Sees in Me: Uncollected Poems 1976-2023” from Casa Urraca Press in Abiquiú.
After her reading, Sagan will lead an open discussion on how to put a poetry manuscript together. This editorial process can be daunting for both beginners and established poets, but there are numerous handy strategies that create a readable and enjoyable book of poetry.
Author’s Bio
Miriam Sagan is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, fiction and memoir. She is a two-time winner of the New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards as well as a recipient of the City of Santa Fe Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts and a New Mexico Literary Arts Gratitude Award. She founded and directed the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College until her retirement in 2016.
For More Information
For more information about this reading, please contact SFCC Library Director Valerie Nye via email at valerie.nye@sfcc.edu or by calling 505-428-1506.
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