Jules’ Poetry Playhouse will have a book table at this event! Thanks to the NM State Poetry Society. All welcome.

This unique outdoor event celebrates art, poetry, and nature with live poetry and music performances, and is free and open to the public.

Morning activities include a Haiku Workshop taught by Miriam Sagan, to sign-up call (505)768-4950; Escribiente Society calligraphy demonstrations and Weathergrams created to order; plus, Poets Picnic Chapbooks and poetry book sales. 

There is an all-afternoon poetry reading sponsored by the New Mexico State Poetry Society with featured poets Michelle Holland, Donald Levering, Diane Thiel, and Mark Weber. Music feature is the J.D. Smooth Duo.

Participants may bring a picnic lunch or purchase food truck fare and refreshments. Visitors are invited to walk the grounds while viewing original poems on Weathergrams, brown paper tags tied to trees and bushes. The short poems known as haiku are by New Mexico poets, beautifully rendered by Escribiente Society calligraphers. Chapbooks of these poems, hand-sewn by LIBROS New Mexico Book Arts Guild members, are available for sale to benefit the Open Space Alliance, a volunteer organization that supports Open Space activities. Local small presses offer poetry books for sale as part of the festivities.