Corrales author Mary Ellen Capek will hold a celebration for the launch of her new poetry book, Love Lessons: Poems from 1973-2023, Nov. 15 at the Corrales Community Library.
According to a press release, Love Lessons shares Capek’s story of growing up in the 1950s and 60s and how she “lacked the language to adequately describe how she was thinking and feeling, which led to a messy marriage and a painful divorce. Eventually, Mary Ellen overcame her struggles, embraced her identity, and came out as a lesbian at age 45. Now she’s sharing her story through poetry.
To celebrate the launch of Love Lessons, author Hilda Raz will be interviewing Capek from 3–5 p.m. There will also be a reading and book signing at the launch party.
“Mary Ellen Capek’s first book of poems, Love Lessons, is a sample of her brilliant mind at work on a long life spent in intellectual endeavor and joyful living,†Raz said. “What a treat.â€
The release said the poems in Love Lessons “unravel a journey of pain, triumph, and healing.†Many of the poems pay tribute to Adrienne Rich and other women writers struggling to realize Rich’s “dream of a common language.â€
In the poems, Capek describes her own “struggle to understand a world where she didn’t yet have the language to capture what she was seeing and feeling.†Capek has been a professor, university administrator, national nonprofit executive, philanthropy researcher who published a college textbook on writing, and co-authored the book, Effective Philanthropy, focusing on diversity and gender equality.
Local author to celebrate launch of new poetry book
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Corrales author Mary Ellen Capek will hold a celebration for the launch of her new poetry book, Love Lessons: Poems from 1973-2023, Nov. 15 at the Corrales Community Library.
According to a press release, Love Lessons shares Capek’s story of growing up in the 1950s and 60s and how she “lacked the language to adequately describe how she was thinking and feeling, which led to a messy marriage and a painful divorce. Eventually, Mary Ellen overcame her struggles, embraced her identity, and came out as a lesbian at age 45. Now she’s sharing her story through poetry.
To celebrate the launch of Love Lessons, author Hilda Raz will be interviewing Capek from 3–5 p.m. There will also be a reading and book signing at the launch party.
“Mary Ellen Capek’s first book of poems, Love Lessons, is a sample of her brilliant mind at work on a long life spent in intellectual endeavor and joyful living,†Raz said. “What a treat.â€
The release said the poems in Love Lessons “unravel a journey of pain, triumph, and healing.†Many of the poems pay tribute to Adrienne Rich and other women writers struggling to realize Rich’s “dream of a common language.â€
In the poems, Capek describes her own “struggle to understand a world where she didn’t yet have the language to capture what she was seeing and feeling.â€
Capek has been a professor, university administrator, national nonprofit executive, philanthropy researcher who published a college textbook on writing, and co-authored the book, Effective Philanthropy, focusing on diversity and gender equality.
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