This writing will not be a history of all the monumental things that Bonnie did and the awards she won for her writing and her community work. As important as they are, this is a personal kind of tribute. I have been so very fortunate to know Bonnie, as a friend and fellow poet. We […]
John Enright, a poet and participant in the 2023 Southwest Word Fiesta, passed away on Tuesday after a long illness. He will be missed by our community. What follows is an obituary John wrote for himself, likely many years ago. It is shared here as written, in his own voice. One of the great losses […]
When the Swedish Academy announced that the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature would go to László Krasznahorkai, readers around the world nodded in recognition. For decades his name has carried the quiet gravity of a secret shared among those who love literature’s darker miracles. To read him is to step into sentences that stretch beyond […]
She began as a young woman who preferred mud to classrooms and notebooks to lectures. In 1960 she reached Gombe, a patch of Tanzanian forest above a long, silver lake, and sat almost motionless until wild chimpanzees stopped seeing her as a threat. Then came the observation that moved a line in human thought. She […]
In 2012, Larry Godfrey — one of the original founders of the Southwest Word Fiesta — stepped away from the organizing committee. With his departure, he left behind not just memories and contributions, but also a gift. Rooted in the spirit of the Gila, the weight of time, and the tension between old and new, […]
Felipe de Ortego y Gasca was a man apart. His life was a picaresque tale – part Charles Dickens, part Great Gatsby. He was orphaned as a child, never graduated from High School but became a university professor, served his country in three conflicts, met James Baldwin and Richard Wright in Paris, published prolifically, acted […]
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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