Karla Linn Merrifield Poetry Posts

are up on SFCC campus–bringing some lyric Florida to New Mexico landscape.

Poetry Posts Feature Taos Writer Kate O’Neill

Look for all ten on the campus of Santa Fe Community College.

Courtyard C is always a lovely spot

A community garden has grown up around one of the posts on the Fitness Center trail. How serendipitous to post Kate’s poem “Seeds” there!

To the west of the bookstore in a bit of wild earth you can find two posts as well

Rest within a bone–
Such might be a way

Poetry Posts: Looking for Poets, Artists, Curators

There are 10 poetry posts on Santa Fe Community College’s campus.

Since I’ve retired, no one is maintaining them, so I think I’ll just continue to as a community project for the time being. But I need help!

I’m looking for:

a poet with ten poems
an editor who wants to create a suite of ten poems
an artist, collagist, collaborative group to create 10 pages of images plus poetry

Each post houses a simple standard piece of paper

I’m going to put out a call in my on-line class and to the staff of Santa Fe Literary Review.
A selection from an e-zine would work. Each poem shoud be no more than one page.

Write me at msagan1035@aol.com to participate

You can mail me hard copy or a pdf would work too. It’s fun, and there’s audience. I’ll install the work. Interested?

Here Is A Map of The Poetry Posts on SFCC Campus

Poetry Month #16: Safety Net Aphorisms

Artist Suzanne Vilmain created a clay circus in a suitcase. This served as an inspiration for the Fiction class at SFCC, in which each student wrote a 1-line aphorism on the themes of “inside/outside” and “safety net.” Below are some images of the combinations:

The aphorisms are also now posted in the ten poetry posts on campus. Check them out!

Albuquerque Poetry Post

There is a lovely poetry post in Albuquerque.

The curators say: We’ve had the pole up for about 3 years; when we first put it up it was just plastic sleeves for the poems and a simple sign- since then we’ve had a metal artist we know make us a steel sign and steel frames for the poems. We know lots of folks who make sure their regular neighborhood walk passes the pole, and we’ve even had a school field trip come to the pole, and all the kids left their own poems behind for us to post! Our block also has a little library and a magazine exchange. Thanks for the interest!

Current poem by Joan Logghe:

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Jessica Burton’s Poem Are Posted

In the always pretty Courtyard C

In the alcove just north of the Fine Arts entrance (to your left facing the doors, framed by a break in the wall).

Check them out on SFCC campus!