Questions from Outer Space
At our first meeting of the ’24-’25 academic year member Diane Thiel (Regents’ Professor, Dept. of English) will read to us from her latest collection of poems, Questions from Outer Space, as well as some poems from a book in progress. Questions from Outer Space won the 2023 Independent Press Award in Poetry. This should prove to be a great experience, so please plan to attend.
From the press release for her book:
Compelling poems with brave, insightful, often humorous observations of the world.
Diane Thiel’s eagerly anticipated collection of poems, Questions from Outer Space, explores fresh and often humorous perspectives that capture the surreal quality of our swiftly changing lives on this planet. The poems travel through questions on many fronts, challenging assumptions and locating unique angles of perception. This thought-provoking book reflects a deep engagement with the natural world, a questioning of our built systems, the expansive wilderness of parenting, and the complexities of navigating outer and inner space.
Diane’s reading will be at 4:30 pm on Tuesday, October 1 in room 2540 of the UNM Physics, Astronomy and Interdisciplinary Science (PAIS) building. This is the same location we held our last meeting and several others. Following the reading we will have our social hour and dinner, nominally at The Church Street Café in Old Town Albuquerque ( https://www.churchstreetcafe.com/ ).
I will request RSVPs in early September.
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Past Events
- Exploring Relational Worlds: Making Sense of Visual Representations in Research, Teaching and Everyday Life, Nov 14 2023
- Field Trip to Abo, Sep 30 2023
- Energy Storage for the Transition to Zero Carbon Renewable Energy in New Mexico, Feb 21 2023
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- Three Lab Tours at PAÍS, Feb 28 2022
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- The U. S. Constitution in its historical evolution, by Russell Goodman, Sep 15 2020
- Cancelled, Apr 01 2020
- Connecting the Dots on Climate Change, by Kerry J. Howe, Feb 17 2020
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- Transformation of a Physician Scientist by Aroop Mangalik, Sep 16 2019
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- Landscapes, Soils and Climate of two highly contrasting regions, by Les McFadden, Sep 20 2016
- Strange Physics in a Strange Land, by Bernd Bassalleck, Apr 16 2016
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- Update on the UNM Cancer Center, by Cheryl Willman, Apr 11 2010
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