Jules’ Poetry Playhouse reading series features Abiquiu, NM Press
Casa Urraca Press
Editor Zach Hively will be joined by poets Vivian Mary Carroll and River Stingray.
Hosted by John Roche & Jules Nyquist
https://casaurracapress.com
Vivian Mary Carroll spent many years in regional theater from Alaska to New York, including teaching costuming to students of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc. Clown College. She worked for the Superior Court of Sacramento for 23 years and followed a British rock band and a country duo for many years, all the while writing and submitting for publication. She is a graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts and has studied at Idyllwild Arts Summer Writing Program, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, and Writing By Writers Boulder Generative Workshop. Her Talking Leaves Scrapbook will be published in 2024 by Casa Urraca Press.
Praise for Talking Leaves Scrapbook
“She uses her senses to extract the essence of her experiences and transforms them into images and metaphors that belong to her, that are unique, that suffice to recognize her being in the universe, alive, meaningful and filled with emotion. Her poems resonate with a deep belonging, they roam sniffing out the meaning of things, discovering the lived past still persist in everything her sensibilities languish in, plucking with words the spines of light that exist in memory and making them sparkle before her mind … and ours.”
- Jimmy Santiago Baca
River Stingray is drawn to the edges of everything—geography, society, and consciousness—in pursuit of human connection. She has traveled extensively, yet nowhere feels more like her home than New Mexico, where she wrote these poems outside and barefoot. She holds a master’s degree in archaeology from the University of Cambridge, and she and her dog, Koa, currently live in Wyoming. Her High Wind Warning will be published in 2024 by Casa Urraca Press.
Praise for High Wind Warning
“River’s wonderful poems open us to both sorrow and delight. Then, she blows the door off its hinges. With a word or phrase she takes us into the quirkier, more interesting world that lies just below sorrow and delight. We accompany her into the wilderness—to the mountains and deserts of New Mexico and the bars and taco trucks of Santa Fe. What a ride!”
- Oro Lynn Benson, author of Because of the Sands of Time
