WHO: Tommy Archuleta,
Laura Kaye Jagels, and Alfredo Celedón Luján
WHAT: Poetry Reading
WHEN: November 5,
5:30pm
WHERE: Teatro
Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, Santa Fe, NM, 505-424-1601
COST: Free, donations
to theatre gratefully accepted
Tommy Archuleta is a native Santa
Fean whose work has appeared in Manzanita Quarterly, La Herencia, The Laurel
Review, and Pleiades. He works as a substance abuse counselor and lives in
Cochiti Lake with his wife, father and the state’s handsomest Chihuahua. He is
presently working on his first collection of poems of chapbook length.
Laura Kaye Jagles is a tribal member of
Tesuque Pueblo, New Mexico. She is also Western Shoshone/Paiute and Chicana of
northern New Mexico. She taught English at the Native American Preparatory
School and the Santa Fe Preparatory School. She currently serves the Pueblo of
Pojoaque as an Indigenous Language Instructor at several schools in Santa Fe,
New Mexico. She and her first five Tewa students were featured in the
documentary The Young Ancestors, which follows these teenagers’ efforts to
reclaim their language. Laura acquired a B. A. in English from Allegheny
College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. She also holds a M. A. and M. Litt. from
Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. She enjoys reading, writing,
dancing, poetry, and humor. Laura's poetry and creative non-fiction have been
published in As/Us: A Space for Women of the World and Yellow Medicine Review:
A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought. Trailers for the
documentary may be viewed at www.theyoungancestors.com
 Alfredo Celedón Luján has been a teacher of
English, and a basketball and volleyball coach. He is a National Endowment for
the Humanities Fellow, a Golden Apple Fellow, and in 2017 has been named the
recipient of the Leadership Award for the Advancement of People of Color by the
National Council of Teachers of English. He has been a writer-in-residence
for the Anchorage and Mat-Su School Districts in
Alaska
and at the Noepe Center for Literary Arts at Martha’s Vineyard. He is a
graduate of New Mexico State University and the Bread Loaf School of English at
Middlebury College. He is currently working on a Master of Letters
Degree. His writing has appeared in English Journal; La Herencia del
Norte; Bread Loaf and the Schools, What is College Level Writing?; Engaging
American Novels; Making Sense: A Real-World Rhetorical Reader; Courageous
Leadership in Early Childhood Education; Puerto Del Sol; and the New Mexico
Humanities Review.
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