KAKTUS reading series features poets Leslie Ullman and Dale M. Kushner on Tuesday, March 29th.
6 pm Pacific, 7 pm Mountain. 8 pm Central, 9 pm Eastern
Followed by open mic.
Featured poets will be recorded and archived on our Youtube channel.
Leslie Ullman is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The You That All Along Has Housed You: A Sequence (Nine Mile Press, 2019) and a hybrid collection of craft essays, writing exercises and poems titled Library of Small Happiness (3: A Taos Press, 2017). A new collection based on Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies, titled Unruly Tree, will be published in 2024 by University of New Mexico Press. Professor Emerita at U.T.-El Paso where she taught for 27 years, she remains a faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at Vermont College of the Fine Arts. Her awards include the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, the Iowa Poetry Prize, two NEA fellowships and a New Mexico/Arizona Book Award for poetry. Leslie is a freelance manuscript consultant and ski instructor at Taos Ski Valley. Her website is www.leslieullman.com
Dale M. Kushner is a novelist, columnist, and poet driven to understand what makes us human. What are the raw and tender stories that shape our lives? Her work wrestles with the “twin spectaculars” of love and loss. Her work draws on the writings of Carl Jung, myths, fairy tales, Buddhist practice, neuroscience, epigenetics, the hidden life of plants and animals, mystery and magic. Dale’s debut collection of poetry, M testifies to the heroic dimensions of women’s lives. The urgent voices in these poems, including Mary Magdalene, Eve, the Virgin Mary, and women experiencing violence across centuries and continents, are bearers of the sacred into the profane world of history—of men and war.
She has special interest in mother/daughter relationships, intergenerational trauma, family secrets and resilience, dream analysis, and the impact of history and memory on our personal lives, writing about those themes each month on her blog “Transcending the Past” on Psychology Today.
“Her first novel, The Conditions of Love, was published by Grand Central and nominated for the Texas Library Association’s award for Outstanding Adult Fiction. She has recently completed her second novel. Please visit her at her website: http://dalemkushner.com
Dale lives with her husband Burt and golden retriever Maisie in Madison, Wisconsin.