Jules’ Poetry Playhouse

FREE EVENT! American School of Storytelling is proud to host the founders of New Mexico’s Jules’ Poetry Playhouse– Jules Nyquist and John Roche, joined by special guest Roslye Ultan. Don’t miss this magical afternoon of poetry and stories. Award winning books will be available for purchase.     Jules Poetry Playhouse Authors: Jules Nyquist is a native Minnesotan and lives in Placitas, New Mexico where she is the founder of Jules’ Poetry Playhouse. Her recent award-winning books are Atomic Paradise, Homesick, The Sestina Playbook, Behind the Volcanoes, and Appetites. She took her PhD in Post-Secondary Adult Education from Capella University and her MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington College. Jules poems have been featured in print, online, audio, radio or in-person at various readings and events including the NM History Conference, in Las Cruces, NM, the American Psychological Association Conference in Denver, CO, the Jonquil Motel in Bisbee, AZ, the Rattlesnake Museum in Albuquerque, NM, a kind of a small array gallery in Magdalena, NM, the Briar in Minneapolis, MN, the Black Dog Café in St. Paul, MN, a Masonic Lodge in Bemidji, MN, the New Mexico Humanities Council, in Albuquerque, NM, Unquarked in Los Alamos, NM, and featured at the International Women’s Day at the Santa Fe Capitol Rotunda, and many other bookstores, bars, galleries, and now at the American School of Storytelling in Minneapolis. Her poems have appeared in Salamander, 5AM, Malpais Review, Adobe Walls, A View from the Loft, St. Paul Almanac, Long Islander News, Gray Sparrow, House Organ, Duke City Fix, Café Review IKON Magazine, Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Taos Journal of Poetry and elsewhere. More at http://www.poetryplayhouse.com John Roche lives in Placitas, New Mexico, helping Jules Nyquist run Jules’ Poetry Playhouse and edit Poetry Playhouse Publications. His latest poetry collection is Tubbables, which is a NM-AZ Book Award Finalist. Other books include On Conesus, Topicalities, Road Ghosts, The Joe Poems: The Continuing Saga of Joe the Poet, and Joe Rides Again: Further Adventures of Joe the Poet. He has also created and edited the five-volume Poets Speak series (Trumped, Hers, Water, Walls and Survival) and other anthologies (including Mo’ Joe). Dr. Roche taught Literature and Creative Writing classes for decades at various colleges and teaches at Jules’ Poetry Playhouse and has done workshops for the New Mexico State Poetry Society. He was formerly President of Just Poets in Rochester, NY, a member of the board of BOA Editions, chief organizer of the Black Mountain North Symposium, and an instigator of the annual Cloudburst Council poets’ retreat in the Finger Lakes. He has a poem in the ICE OUT: Minnesota Writers Rising Up anthology. Roslye Ultan is a Professor Emeritus from UNM/CCE Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Program with a specialty in Art History/and Visual Culture. Her first full-length poetry collection is Convergence, published by P...