Look for a new post of Sunday Brunch every month on the first Sunday. This column features Tripod Poems, poetic micro essays inspired by three randomly chosen words. These words become the title of the piece, are contained within the piece and are developed into observations on life in the Southwest and beyond. Transcend – Imbue – Beatific […] Read More
The nine-year-old had entrusted her best thoughts to a poem copied from a Big Chief tablet into her diary. “Bonnie Mae Buckley” read the golden letters on the diary’s leather cover. I could not read itto anyonebecause diary wordsare a secret.Besides, someonemight laugh at me. The Buckley ranch where Bonnie and her three brothers roamed […] Read More
SWWF: Friday, October 27th, 3:30 – 4:30 pm MDT I would have loved the first book launch I attended after our Covid lockdown, no matter what book it presented. After all, that was my initial chance to be out, not just among people, but among my tribe, and readers. Yet I’m especially grateful that the […] Read More
The 2023 Felipe de Ortego y Gasca Lecture is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct 4, 5:30-7:00 MDT, at WNMU’s Miller Library. This year writer, poet, performer Tim Z. Hernandez will deliver the talk: “The Lost Ones: Recovered Memory and Creative Storytelling.”THIS EVENT WILL BE PRESENTED ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4.The lecture series is named in honor of […] Read More
It’s crossed your mind. They’re making such a mess of things. You could do better. Well, the time has come. Make up your mind and run for town council. Municipal elections happen in the off-years from state, county and national elections. Our small towns have delegated elections to the Grant County clerk. Next Tuesday, Aug. […] Read More
The LULAC Book Award, established by the Southwest Word Fiesta, honors the best book by an author of Hispanic descent who lives in the Southwest. The book must have been published in the last two years, that is, since the last Southwest Word Fiesta book festival. The winner is chosen by LULAC’s Council 8003 of Silver […] 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).