Join publisher Pamela Warren Williams (7-8 pm MT) talking about the history of Mercury Heartlink Press, and featured poetry reading with Mercury Heartlink Press poetry authors:
Telma Laurentino, Hank Blackwell, Mike Ball, Mark Fleisher, Maggi Petton
Followed by open mic (8-9 pm MT)
Starts: 6 pm Pacific, 7 pm Mountain, 8 pm Central, 9 pm Eastern
Hosted by John Roche and Jules Nyquist
Open Mic will start with Mercury Heartlink poets Bob Weber, Lynne Zotalis and Janet Ruth.
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Pamela Warren Williams, Mercury Heartlink
Telma Laurentino, Hank Blackwell, Mike Ball, Mark Fleisher, Maggi Petton
Telma Laurentino
Telma is a doctor of evolutionary biology, studying the genetics of how different species adapt to environmental change. From Portugal, she has worked as a scientist in Switzerland and California and learning from biodiversity across 5 continents. Currently, she develops inclusive education tools on our socio-ecological complexity. She writes to process modernity’s paradoxes and inspire our awareness of common ancestry and deep ecological entanglement between all living organisms. She experiences Earth with scientist eyes, poet heart, martial artist feet, raccoon soul and magpie laugh. Her next book, on socio-ecological entanglements, is being sowed. HeartLink published A Love Letter from the Forest to you, through me.
Hank Blackwell
Hank has been a teacher since his early teens, a jeweler, ballet dancer, mountaineer, writer, fire chief and emergency medical services and technical rescue professional. These diverse and varied opportunities such as observation, gratitude, wonder, and vulnerability created a diverse recipe for the importance of poetry in Hank’s life. He is the author of Silver Chain, Closer to the Door, and was the editor of A Wind Blows Through Us, A Festival of New Mexico Men”s Poetry all from HeartLink.
Mike Ball
Michael Robert Ball is hick and urbanite in one. He considers the apple country of West Virginia’s eastern panhandle home. Bees remain friends and are welcome to crawl on him. He would no sooner smash a spider than kill a plant.
He wrote and edited numerous business and technical magazines. After years in NYC, and time in Savannah he returned to the West Village and on to Boston for Inc., then a series of computer and high-tech writing jobs. To ease the tedium of technical writing and engineering management, he became an active political blogger and podcaster. Then he turned to poetry and is one of Boston’s Hyde Park poets. He finds poetry more fun than manual and help writing. HeartLink published Leaving the Party, Poems, with his photography.
Mark Fleisher
Mark Fleisher has been writing since covering high school sports. He served as an Air Force combat news reporter in Vietnam and then worked as a reporter and editor, wrote speeches and media releases, and later, as a counselor, successfully drafted numerous documents for veterans’ claims. Following retirement, Fleisher’s freelance work appeared in several newspapers and magazines. He “discovered” poetry in 2011 and has published five books with HeartLink: Moments in Time, Intersections: Poems from the Crossroads, Reflections: Soundings from the Deep, Incidental Moments, and Knowing When.
Maggi Petton
Maggi Petton is a poet and author of historical fiction. Her novels tell of the struggles of disenfranchised women throughout history—women of strength, courage and determination. Likewise, Maggi’s poetry is a window into her soul—expressions of both agony and gratefulness. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Maggi has made her home in New Mexico since 1985. She lives in Albuquerque with her partner wife and daughter. HeartLink has published two volumes of meditative poetry: be…psalms of a contemplative heart and embracing the sacred wound