Arts Alive: Poetry at the Museum

Sunday, May 31
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM MT
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center | 135 Grant Ave, Santa Fe, NM

Enjoy an afternoon of poetry!

Join us at the Georgia O’Keeffe Research Center (135 Grant Ave, Santa Fe, NM) for an afternoon of poetry! Two poets will share a selection from their work and invite you into their creative processes, inspirations, and lived experiences. As a special keepsake, audience members will receive a printed poem to take home.

Poets:

Tina Carlson is the author of full-length collections of poetry: Ground, Wind, This Body, We Are Meant to Carry Water, a collaboration with 2 other NM poets, and A Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery, which won first place in the 2024 NM/AZ book award for poetry. Her chapbook, Obsidian, was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2024. Her essay, Mothers and Manta Rays, won second prize for non-fiction at Tucson’s Festival of Books 2025. She is an editor of the online journals Unbroken and Hot Flash Literary. She is a mental health nurse practitioner specializing in women’s mental health.

Olivia Romo is a bilingual poet, water rights advocate, and passionate storyteller from Taos, New Mexico. She holds dual Bachelor’s degrees in English and Chicana/o Studies from the University of New Mexico. Currently based in Santa Fe, Olivia serves as a Field Representative for U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich for Northern New Mexico in areas such as agriculture, healthcare, housing, and education.
Olivia’s work masterfully intertwines art and activism. In 2023, she was a featured artist in Ojos Diferentes, an innovative augmented reality project that poetically reimagined Robert Oppenheimer’s office located at 109 E. Palace Avenue in Santa Fe. As a dedicated community and literary leader, she has curated the Community Storytelling Event for the SOMOS Taos Storytelling Festival for three consecutive years and continues to empower youth through her writing workshops. Through her poetry and dynamic public engagement, Olivia mobilizes New Mexicans in the protection and uncertainties of their land, water, and culture.

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With support from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is pleased to present a four-part reading series that will bring poetry and dialogue into a welcoming, accessible space. The Arts Alive: Poetry at the Museum series will consist of four events, each of which will feature two women poets who live and work in New Mexico. At each event, the poets will read selected pieces and will talk with one another about their process, their work, and their experience. We invite anyone who has a curiosity about poetry to join us for any or all of these free events. As a special memento, audience members will receive a special letterpress print of poetry written by the event’s headliners (while supplies last). These have been created in collaboration with the poets and Etc. Letterpress.

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