Corrales poet wins inaugural True Concord Poetry Contest

Oct. 14—CORRALES POET WINS CONTEST

Corrales poet Janet Ruth has won the inaugural True Concord Poetry Contest held by True Concord Voices and Orchestra of Tucson. Ruth's winning sonnet is titled "A World That Shimmers." The True Concord competition sought a new poem about "music's ability to bridge our differences and create harmony with one another."

Here are the first four lines of Ruth's poem: "Even today this Earth of loss and pain/still sings the regal music of the spheres./Her children join together, raise refrains/in harmonies that stand against our fears."

Ruth's poem was set to music — an original piece composed by Nicholas Ryan Kelly that the True Concord ensemble performed. Kelly's composition was the winner of True Concord's 2023 Emerging Composers' Competition.

"I am incredibly honored to have been selected for this," Ruth wrote in an email.

AT BOOKWORKS

Anita Dolce Vita will discuss her new book "dapperQ: Ungendering Fashion" at 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW. She will be in conversation with members of a panel of LGBTQIA+ activists, artists and performers that include Marshall Martinez, executive director of Equality NM, and Avery Martini, creative director/producer of the Chocolate Factory ABQ. Dolce Vita is editor-in-chief of dapperQ magazine.

AT BOOKS ON THE BOSQUE

Author-filmmaker Brian Young will talk about his two works of speculative fiction for middle-graders — "Heroes of the Water Monster" and "The Healer of the Water Monster" at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17, at Books on the Bosque, 6261 Riverside Plaza Lane NW. Young, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, was raised in Fort Defiance, Arizona. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

AT TREASURE HOUSE

Debra Montoya will sign copies of her new book "Old Town Plaza in Albuquerque" from 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15, at Treasure House Books & Gifts, 2012 S. Plaza St. NW, Old Town. It is described as a history book with photographs. Montoya dedicated the book to her Nana, Linda Rambes-Garcia, and her deep love of Old Town Plaza.

AT COLLECTED WORKS

Shelby Tisdale will be in conversation with Abiquiú author Lesley Poling-Kempes about Tisdale's new biography "No Place for A Lady: The Life Story of Archaeologist Marjorie F. Lambert" at Collected Works at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17. In her introduction, Tisdale writes that Lambert was "one of a handful of women who left their imprint on the study of southwestern archaeology, anthropology, history and museology during the first half of the 20th century."

As Tisdale further observes, Lambert "struggled throughout her life against the male biases that limited women's recognition and advancement in scientific circles." Lambert died in Santa Fe in 2006.

Collected Works is located at 202 Galisteo St., Santa Fe.

IN LOS ALAMOS

A new children's book, "A Los Alamos Alphabet" will have its launch at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, at the Mesa Public Library, 2400 Central Ave., Los Alamos. The author is Whitney Spivey. Photographer Leslie Bucklin contributed the images. Both reside in Los Alamos.

— By David Steinberg/For the Journal