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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 10, 2004
Contact:
Tom Leech
Director, Palace of the Governors Press
505-476-5096
Cheryle Mitchell
Project Manager
505-476-5055
¡POET MAN! PERFORMS AT PALACE; APOLOGIZES FOR ALLITERATION
Santa Fe, New Mexico — Read, rhyme, recite and rock out with ¡Poet Man! at the Palace of the Governors, Sunday, May 22, 2005
¡Poet Man! a.k.a. Gary Mex Glazner, the Palace of the Governors’ poet-in-residence, is able to leap tall metaphors with a single bound, is faster than a speeding simile, more powerful than a steaming locomotive powered by hyperbole. He’s also the world’s foremost authority on doggy doggerel. And, if you ask, he’ll tell you what rhymes with orange.
Children and their families will have the chance to ask at the hourlong event that starts at 2 p.m. As always, Sundays are free for New Mexico residents with I.D., and children 16 and younger are always free at the Palace.
Glazner has played word games with everyone from young kids in YMCA after-school programs to Alzheimer’s patients at the Sierra Vista assisted-living facility. He has written haiku for proper pillow talk at the Anasazi, and has led the precision Poetry Drill Team at Desert Academy in recitations of the classics. The team’s renditions of “The Tyger,” “Kubla Khan” and “We Real Cool” were part of a recent segment on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.
As ¡Poet Man! Glazner will be part of the Palace of the Governor’s educational outreach efforts that will take elements of the exhibition Lasting Impressions: The Private Presses of New Mexico to public libraries, museums, schools and senior citizen centers throughout the state. Such programs have been made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal grant-making agency dedicated to creating and sustaining a nation of learners by helping libraries and museums serve their communities.
ĄPoet Man! will be at four rural libraries in May and June: Call (505) 476-5055 for his schedule.
Sunday activities are free to New Mexico residents with I.D.
This “Lasting Impressions” event is supported by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The IMLS, a federal grant-making agency dedicated to creating and sustaining a nation of learners by helping libraries and museums serve their communities supports the Palace of the Governors and its partners, the New Mexico State Exhibitions Program.
To learn more about the IMLS, please log on at http://www.imls.gov
For more information about the exhibit, contact Tom Leech at the Palace Press, (505) 476-5096.
The Palace of the Governors is part of the Museum of New Mexico/Department of Cultural Affairs.
www.palaceofthegovernors.org
