Community | Wednesday, January 10 | 10 AM | FREE

FUSION Social Club on January 10
FREE and open to all!

FUSION Social Club kicks off 2024 with featured guest poet Mary Oishi. Mary Oishi, Albuquerque Poet Laureate (2020-2022), and her poetry collection, Sidewalk Cruiseship, is forthcoming April 1, 2024 from UNM Press. 

Long time KUNM listeners may also know her as KUNM’s Development Director and alternating host of The Blues Show until she retired in 2019.

ABOUT FUSION SOCIAL CLUB
Spend an hour in FUSION’s spirited 708 space. All are welcome to gather together to explore art, theatre, music, food, travel, events of the day, literature, and the world of film. Laurie Thomas, FUSION Co-founder, leads the group in an hour-long journey of discussion with featured guests.

ABOUT MARY OISHI
Mary Oishi, Albuquerque Poet Laureate (2020-2022), is the author of Spirit Birds They Told Me (West End Press, 2011), co-author of Rock Paper Scissors (Swimming with Elephants, 2018), and Editor of the 2023 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award Winner for Poetry Anthology, One Albuquerque, One Hundred Poets: Poets in the Libraries Anthology (City of Albuquerque Arts & Culture Dept., 2022). Her work is published in numerous anthologies and publications throughout the U.S. and internationally, including in translation. She served as instructor for Taos Writer's Conference (2021 & 2022), and as poetry mentor for Kundiman (an Asian American writers’ organization). Her poetry collection, Sidewalk Cruiseship, is forthcoming April 1, 2024 from UNM Press.