Saturday, April 4 at 2 PM
In celebration of April as National Poetry Month, Placitas Community Library is delighted to bring Placitas poet Larry Goodell. Larry will read/perform in the Gracie Lee Community Room at 2pm on Saturday April 4.
Larry Goodell was born in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1935, and got his B.A. from the University of Southern California in ’57. He did graduate work at the University of New Mexico, spent over two years in the U.S. Army, and taught at the Albuquerque Academy. Larry moved to Placitas in 1963. Since 1968 he has been married to the photographer and artist Lenore Goodell. He met poet Robert Creeley and studied with him at the University of New Mexico, getting to know him well in Placitas. Through his friendship with the Creeley family, Larry met many vital American poets.
After attending the Vancouver Poetry Conference, where he studied with Charles Olson and Allen Ginsberg, Larry was inspired to found Duende Press in 1964. Larry published a variety of poets and organized poetry events, first at the Living Batch Bookstore in Albuquerque, and then at Silva’s Bar and Zocalo Theater in Bernalillo. For over 12 years he worked with the Duende Poetry Series in Placitas with the help of Jim Fish, Gary Brower, Jeff Bryan and Cirrelda Snyder Bryan. He recorded most of the poets involved and their readings are available online.
Larry’s creativity includes poetry, improvised keyboard pieces, plays, songs, and active literary archiving, as well as keeping the stream of performance poetry going. His life project now is editing and digitally publishing his work as well as reading his poems at events. His poetry evolves from his native New Mexico roots, his improvisational nature and our natural world. His newest book is Clouds, poems 2020-2025. Placitas Community Library looks forward to sharing this Placitas treasure with you on Saturday April 4th at 2pm.