Poetry Reading

WHEN: Sunday, February 16, 2025 at 5:00 pm

Free Admission

ABOUT THE SHOW:

Teatro Paraguas is pleased to host a poetry reading with 

Bill Nevins, Alan Abrams, Stephen Jules Rubin, and Argos MacCallum.

Bill Nevins, born in 1947, has lived in New Mexico since 1996. He grew up in New York, attended Iona University, U. of Connecticut, and UC Berkeley, and taught at UNM. Bill has organized poetry readings in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Taos, and Angel Fire. As a journalist, he has reported from Ireland and Mexico and he has written for many New Mexico, national and international publications. A collection of Bill’s poems, Light Bending, was published in 2024 by Sligo Creek Publishing of Washington DC.

Alan Abrams was born in Washington D.C. in 1949. In 1974, he moved to New Mexico, where he worked as a carpenter and construction jack-of-all-trades. In 1980, he returned to the East Coast and became a builder and building designer, recently honored as a Fellow of the American Institute of Building Design. His poems and short stories have been published in literary journals and anthologies, including The Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Mid Atlantic Review, The Raven’s Perch, Bud and Branch (UK), Litbop, The Galway Review (Ireland), The Rat’s Ass Review, and many others. His poem “Aleinu”, published by Bourgeon, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In July 2024 he founded the Sligo Creek Publishing Company, and has published four collections of stories and poetry, in addition to two collections of his own writing.

Stephen Jules Rubin grew up in Baltimore, and has lived in Santa Fe since 1990. he founded Julesworks, with ongoing performances of music, poetry and theatre presented at different venues in Santa Fe. His theatre credits include performances at Santa Fe Playhouse, CCA, and Teatro Paraguas. He hosts a weekly rod program on 96.9 FM KMRD in Madrid.

Argos MacCallum is a co-founder and current artistic director at Teatro Paraguas, which has hosted many poetry readings over the past 15 years. He has published three chapbooks: She

Loved Gravity and Would Fall Down Exquisitely Anywhere (Synergetic Press 1987), Sleeping Woman Mountain (Kelsay Books 2022), and The Road From Refuge Ridge (Kelsay Books 2023).

This project is made possible in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, Santa Fe Arts and Culture and the 1% Lodger’s Tax, Santa Fe Community Foundation, and the National Latinx Theater Initiative.