A Lifelong Accumulation
Of Autumn Mornings:
Poet Peggy Pond Church
Kathleen Church
Sharon Snyder
Taos Public Library
June 23rd 1:30 — 3:30
“It’s a hard world for sensitive people to live in,” Peggy Pond Church once said, but it was her sensitivity and insight that made her a remarkable woman. Coupling her inner feelings with her ability to write, she immortalized the beauty, spirituality, and culture that is New Mexico. No poet or author has captured it better in poetry or in prose.
Margaret Hallett Pond, to be called Peggy, was born on an isolated ranch in the Territory of New Mexico in 1903 at a place known as Valmora. She was the daughter of Ashley Pond Jr., son of a wealthy Detroit attorney, and Hazel Hallett Pond, the granddaughter of a former governor of Arkansas who retired from politics to become a rancher in Mora County. Peggy was a child of the frontier from the beginning, surviving her premature birth on a cold December day with the help of her father, who wrapped his tiny daughter in cotton batting, tucked her into a basket, and placed her in a closet with an oil heater, the only space where he could keep her warm.
Peggy Pond Church is a source of pride for her native state and has been justly rewarded for interpreting its beauty and for her contributions to its cultural heritage. Most likely, however, in her unassuming way, Peggy would have simply voiced her basic belief about her writing—“It’s the land that wants to be said.” The presenters will recapture the beauty of Peggy’s poetry through a biographical description of her life.
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