

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Nathan Brown & John Roche Poetry Reading: Performance Aloud.
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 31 Jan, 2026 at 04:00 pm – Sat, 31 Jan, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Nathan Brown is an author, songwriter, and award-winning poet living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He holds a PhD in English and Journalism from the University of Oklahoma where he’s taught for over 20 years. He served as Poet Laureate for the State of Oklahoma in 2013/14, and now travels full time performing readings, concerts, workshops and speaking on creativity, poetry, and songwriting.
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Nathan has published 30-ish books. Most recent are the first two books in his new memoir series: The Birth of a Vagabond. Book 1 is The Broken Summer, and Book 2 is The Fallen Autumn. His poetry collection, Karma Crisis: New and Selected Poems, was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and the Oklahoma Book Award. His earlier book, Two Tables Over, won the 2009 Oklahoma Book Award. And his most recent album of original songs, The Streets of San Miguel, features Joel Guzman (Paul Simon's accordion player), and International Fiddle Champion Warren Hood.
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He’s taught memoir, poetry, songwriting, and performance workshops from Tuscany and Ireland to the Sisters Folk Festival in Oregon, the Taos Poetry Festival, the Woody Guthrie Festival, Laity Lodge, the Everwood Farmstead Foundation in Wisconsin, as well as for Blue Rock Artist Ranch near Austin, Texas. And, as a singer-songwriter, he's performed in venues such as the Bluebird in Nashville, the Cactus Cafe in Austin, the Mucky Duck in Houston, and the Blue Door in Oklahoma City. . . as well as overseas in Israel and Russia.

John Roche lives in Albuquerque, where he helps run the Poetry Playhouse with Jules Nyquist. He  continues to teach for Rochester Institute of Technology.

His first full-length poetry collections were On Conesus (2005) and Topicalities (2008), both from FootHills Publishing, Kanona, NY. His 2011 poetic memoir, Road Ghosts, is available from theenk Books (through SPDBooks.org).  Albuquerque's Beatlick Press published an anthology of 120 poets called Mo' Joe (2014), inspired by his Joe Poems: The Continuing Saga of Joe the Poet (FootHills, 2012). Mo’ Joe was a finalist in the 2014 Arizona/New Mexico Book Awards and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

He also edited the collection Uncensored Songs for Sam Abrams (Spuyten Duyvil, 2008), co-edited an anthology of poems by Auburn Prison inmates with Patricia Roth Schwartz, and edited Martha Rittenhouse Treichler’s Black Mountain to Crooked Lake: Poems 1948-2010, with a Memoir of Black Mountain College (FootHills, 2010).  He is now editing a series of issues-themed anthologies called Poets Speak, which include Trumped, Hers, Water, Walls, and Survival.
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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, festivals, music, entertainment, workshops, concerts, performances
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Santa Fe
- **state**: NM
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 3018 Cielo Court Ste. D, Santa Fe, NM
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- **long**: -105.99323
- **full address**: 3018 Cielo Court Ste. D, Santa Fe, NM, United States

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- **organizer**: Geronimo’s Books (https://allevents.in/org/geronimo’s-books/22858973)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 31 Jan, 2026 at 04:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 3018 Cielo Court Ste. D, Santa Fe, NM, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Geronimo’s Books
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
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