The Rising Writers program, run by the non-profit group New Mexico Writers, gives unpublished or novice New Mexico authors a chance to spend time with an established writer in their genre. Professional authors share wisdom, answer questions, and offer encouragement to a group of 3-5 fledgling writers for 90 minutes in a local venue. John […]
Some urban raccoons can untie knots and open doors. Fisher cats aren’t felines and don’t eat fish. A bobcat’s teeth have evolved to fit precisely into the spaces of its prey’s spinal cord. Spotted skunks warn away predators by doing a handstand on their front feet and spreading their back legs in the air. As […]
James Baldwin was the conscience of the United States. He took a cold, hard look at his nation and called out its injustices in writing that was cadenced, even-handed, and true. He was a great novelist and, arguably, an even greater essayist; he simply knew things about the human soul that others didn’t know, and […]
Mimbres Press of Western New Mexico University will launch Our Search for Meaning: A Humanistic Anthology on Friday February 25th, 6-7 p.m. at WNMU’s Miller Library. This book, which is used on WNMU’s Applied Liberal Arts and Sciences (ALAS) course, examines the intellectual history of western civilization within the context of four questions: What is […]
Gila Lost and Found: Search and Rescue in New Mexico by Marc Levesque Reviewed by JJ Amaworo Wilson Gila Lost and Found recounts the author’s experiences as a Search and Rescue (SAR) field coordinator in the Gila Wilderness. It’s part a “how to survive” and part an adventure book, although some parts read like entry […]
Within Our Grasp: Childhood Malnutrition Worldwide and the Revolution Taking Place to End It by Sharman Apt RussellPantheonApril 6, 2021ISBN-10: 1524747246 Reviewed by JJ Amaworo Wilson Humans have been hungry for a long time. The four-thousand-year-old tomb of Ankhtifi holds the inscription “All of Upper Egypt was dying of hunger to such a degree that […]

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).