Santa Fe's New Poet Laureate, Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, has spent over 20 years as a journalist, syndicated columnist, playwright, poet, and performance artist. Darryl will give a reading of his poetry, creative nonfiction, and lead the audience in a discussion about poetry. His essays on poverty, economic justice, race relations, African American history, and civil rights history have appeared in The Nation, The Guardian, The Progressive, Christian Science Monitor, The Atlantic, Dissent, Crisis (NAACP's magazine), and many more. He writes a semi-regular column in The Santa Fe Reporter. His poetry chapbook "Life's Prisoners" was published by Flowstone Press in 2017. He has appeared as a guest on the Tavis Smiley radio show and is currently a writing fellow at Community Change located in Washington, D.C. He lives in Santa Fe, NM. on Xerb for free here https://xerb.tv/channel/teatro-paraguas/virtual-events/2485