Award-winning author and poet Terry Lucas fell in love with poetry as an undergraduate at New Mexico State University. As part of the Nelson-Boswell Reading Series hosted by La Sociedad para Las Artes, hear him read from the collection of poems in his most recent book “Everything: New and Selected Poems.”
The reading begins at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20 via Zoom, which can be accessed by registering here. Copies of “Everything: New and Selected Poems” will be available for purchase at the NMSU Bookstore.
Lucas grew up in Farmington, New Mexico. He’s an author, poet and editor, while also working as a poetry coach to help students write and publish their work. “Everything: New and Selected Poems” is a collection of poems over decades of Lucas’s life, navigating his struggles with a wry sense of humor. His work appears in over fifty national and international journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, The Banyan Review, Best New Poets and many others. He has been awarded the Crab Orchard Review Special Feature Award in Poetry and the Littoral Press Poetry Prize to name a few, and was selected Poet Laureate Emeritus of Marin County, California in 2019.
The Nelson-Boswell Reading Series invites visiting writers to NMSU to share their work with the community. La Sociedad para Las Artes is seeking to establish a permanent endowed fund through the NMSU Foundation whose earnings will support creative writing programs, including visiting writers and reading series as well as creative writing workshops for children in Las Cruces Public Schools.
CUTLINE: Terry Lucas, award-winning author, poet and New Mexico State University alum, will read from “Everything: New and Selected Poems” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20 via Zoom as part of NMSU’s Nelson-Boswell Reading Series hosted by La Sociedad para Las Artes. (Courtesy photo)