Teatro Paraguas presents

Poetry Reading with Debbi Brody and Melanie Faithful

Tickets:
Donations at the door gratefully accepted • first come/first served basis
Reservations: (505) 424-1601

Website:
teatroparaguas.org

Debbi Brody conducts poetry workshops and readings at festivals and other venues throughout the Southwest for writers age five through ninety-five. She publishes frequently in regional and national literary journals, magazines, and books of note including numerous anthologies. Walking the Arroyo is her third self-published chapbook and has been picked up for International hard cover publishing and distribution by Cyberwit. Her first full length collection, Portraits in Poetry, (Village Books Press, Oklahoma, 2006), as well as her chapbook, FreeForm are out of print. Her 2013 chapbook is Awe in the Muddle and her 2015 collection In Everything Birds, (Village Books Press, Oklahoma, 2015) which won an inaugural Margaret Randall Poetry Prize, is available through artqueen58@aol.com and the usual on-line book purchasing sites. As well as being active in the poetry community, editing, writing and reviewing, coordinating readings, and judging art shows and recitations, she works for a small scientific research and development company. Debbi has lived in Santa Fe, NM with her husband since 1992.

Melanie Lamb Faithful has lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico for many years, but her heritage is Appalachian. Her poetry has been published in many journals, periodicals, devotional guides, the “EPN” Electronic Poetry Network and Women’s Uncommon Prayers by Morehouse Publishing. Ekphrastic poetry (poetic interpretation and exploration of the visual image) is her specialty and her poetry has been featured in multiple galleries and art venues. Melanie also taught a class for prose writers who wanted to cross the bridge into writing poetically. She, along with the photographer and artist Sally Nelson Kruse, created a full color book of art and poetry published by Western Edge Press in 2019 entitled Saints and Sinners, An Esoteric Collection of Poetry and Photographs from New Mexico. Melanie, her husband, and three of their four adult children and three cats live in Santa Fe. She spends all her time in the mountains, whether it is New Mexico or in the tiny town in southern Italy, where their second home was purchased for the price of a used Toyota. She graduated from a small Baptist college in Tennessee with a degree focused on religion, psychology, and philosophy. She concluded her academic publishing career in 2019, most notably working for a British physics society where she managed all publishing operations for Latin America and the Caribbean for more than two decades. If there is any overarching theme to her writing, it would be an affinity for feminist discovery with a sense of humor. Her two newest chapbooks released in 2020 are entitled work of art, musings on aesthetics and the creative life and the spirit moves, musings on faith and the mythic life. If you want to discuss these topics, or anything else, you can contact Melanie at 505-672-8085 or at melanie@marisombra.com.