It is with great pleasure and admiration that I, the current Poet Laureate of Grant County, NM, welcome and introduce the new US Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. She was appointed as the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States by the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, on July 12, 2022. Limón will replace Joy Harjo […] Read More
I was eight years old the first time I saw a dead body.You see, my Mom, she loved to read.Scanning the shelves of her special collection,I gingerly chose one whose title read:Our Bodies, Our Selves.Having been an appreciative owner of a body and a self of my very own for eight whole years, I became […] Read More
We respectfully acknowledge that the entirety of southwestern New Mexico is the traditional territory, since time immemorial, of the Chis-Nde, also known as the people of the Chiricahua Apache Nation. The Chiricahua Apache Nation is recognized as a sovereign Native Nation by the United States in the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Friendship of 1 July 1852 (10 Stat. 979) (Treaty of Santa Fe ratified 23 March 1853 and proclaimed by President Franklin Pierce 25 March 1853).
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