Jane Lipman and Jeff Hood Read Poetry at Teatro Paraguas • Live on Zoom
Presented by Teatro Paraguas
Teatro Paraguas is pleased to host a poetry reading with noted Santa Fe poets Jane Lipman and Jeff Hood.
Free • To register visit TeatroParaguas.org.
Jane Lipman’s first full-length poetry collection, On the Back Porch of the Moon, Black Swan Editions, 2012, won the 2013 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award and a 2013 New Mexico Press Women’s Award. Her chapbooks, The Rapture of Tulips and White Crow’s Secret Life (Pudding House Publications, 2009), were finalists for New Mexico Book Awards in Poetry in 2009 and 2010, respectively. Her poem “Unsung” won Second Prize in a national poetry contest honoring Cole Porter in 2015. She was First Runner Up in the Lummox Poetry Contest in 2016.
During the 1980s she founded and directed Taos Institute, which sponsored performances and workshops by Robert Bly, Joseph Campbell, Gioia Timpanelli, Paul Winter, and others.
She gave Comedy Therapy and Enneagram workshops for many years in NM, as well as in Lithuania, Czech Republic, Poland, and Russia.
Until Covid sequestering, she gave Mystical Poetry and Writing workshops three times a year in Santa Fe. She has lived in northern New Mexico since 1970.
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Jeff Hood is a poet, gardener, and adventurer in wild places. He has had more careers than is healthy, but most of them have been great fun and/or great learning. He has recently bought a little apple orchard in Velarde and is looking forward to life in a small community on the Rio. His go-to question when faced with tough decisions comes from Sai Baba: “Before you talk, think: Is it necessary? Is it true? Is it kind? Will it hurt anyone? Will it improve upon the silence?”
Life At Four Miles An Hour
By Jeff Hood
I can walk four miles an hour
which is slower than my bicycle,
and notice the sunflowers blooming
with bees busy pollinating.
I can carry on a conversation
at four miles an hour,
and have time to go back to
a point brought up yesterday.
I can listen to you with no
fear for my own gain.
I can sort through my projections of you
to find who you are
at four miles an hour.
We travel four miles an hour
on the river,
and day after day we collect
the landscape
into ourselves
so that it supports us,
like the dried rose on my dashboard
reminding me of your love.
Faster is not better,
for I get ahead of my soul
and then who will notice
the sunflowers,
or take time to float the rivers,
or stop by the side of the road
to write this poem
and weep.
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