Join us in the Museum Courtyard for a free night of poetry! Spend the evening with two poets who 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—a piece of the night to take home.
Poets:
Catherine Meng is the author of the full-length poetry collections Tonight’s the Night (Apostrophe Books, 2007), The Longest Solar Eclipse of the Century (SplitLevel Texts, 2013), and forthcoming in 2026: The Year of the Big Wind (Apostrophe Books). She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Layli Long Soldier holds a B.F.A. from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an M.F.A. from Bard College. Her poems have appeared in POETRY Magazine, The New York Times, The American Poet, The American Reader, The Kenyon Review, BOMB and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award. She has also received the 2018 PEN/Jean Stein Award, the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award, a 2021 Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and the 2021 Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize in the UK. Most recently, she was awarded the 2025 C.D. Wright Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She is the author of Chromosomory (Q Avenue Press, 2010) and WHEREAS (Graywolf Press, 2017). Her forthcoming book of poetry is titled WE (Graywolf Press, 2026). She teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts and resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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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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