Back Porch Reading Series featuring poets Bruce Holsapple and Michael Boughn

In-person reading at Jules’ Poetry Playhouse, Placitas, NM

Outdoor back porch small group seating - reserved ticketed seats

Doors open 5:30 pm Mountain time, reading starts 6 pm, followed by Q & A and conversation

Hosted by Jules Nyquist and John Roche

Books for sale by the authors

Ticket price of $10 includes reserved seat, locally sourced vegetarian pizza from our neighbors Placitas Pizza, beverages including wine, and light refreshments. Free parking on site.

Jules’ Poetry Playhouse bookstore and gallery will be open, in addition to our Little Free Library.

The reading portion of this event will be recorded for our Youtube channel archive. It is NOT a live session.

Bruce Holsapple

Bruce Holsapple worked as Speech-Language Pathologist in the Magdalena, NM schools and is now retired. He’s published nine books of poetry. His most recent publication is Wayward Shadow (La Alameda 2013). He’s now working on two new books. His book-length study of William Carlos Williams’ poetry, The Birth of the Imagination, was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2016. Bruce will be reading new work and from his latest manuscript, Sun, Wind, Rain.

Michael Boughn

Michael Boughn co-edited with Kent Johnson the notorious online disturbance, Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, from 2014-18. His most recent poetry books are Uncertain Remains (BlazeVox 2022) and The Book of Uncertain—A Hyperbiographical User’s Manual (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022). He is co-editor of Robert Duncan’s The H.D.Book. A book of his essays, Measure’s Measures—Poetry and Knowledge, is due out from Station Hill Press in September 2023. Michael lives in Toronto, Ontario, and is visiting Placitas.