Verse and Vision: Celebrating National Poetry Month with Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

April is National Poetry Month!

Read, analyze, write, and share poetry in this four-part poetry workshop series with award-winning writer Darryl Lorenzo Wellington. 

Registration is required. Please register for each session you will be attending. 

Darryl Lorenzo Wellington was the 2021-23 Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico. An uprooted Southerner who is now a New Mexican, he has been a professional journalist for the over 20 years. His articles, fiction and poetry appear in The Nation, The Atlantic, Dissent, The Washington Post, Boston Review, Yemassee magazine, Drum Voices, Matter Monthly, Pedestal magazine, ABZ magazine, Santa Fe Literary Review, Radius magazine, Blood Tree Literature magazine, and other places. His writing is anthologized in MFA vs. NYC (FSG, 2014) and Santa Fe Noir (Akashic Books, 2020). He is also a performance artist. His previous chapbook, Life's Prisoners, received the 2017 Turtle Island Quarterly poetry prize. His most recent book is: Legible Walls: Poems for Santa Fe Murals.

Library programming is made possible by the support from Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library.