Heather Frankland was proclaimed Silver CIty and Grant County’s sixth Poet Laureate last evening at the Town Council Meeting by Mayor Ladner on May 14, 2024.
Frankland teaches at Western New Mexico University, and she is also active in the community organizing poetry events. She has served in the Peace Corps and Peace Corps Response Volunteer in Peru and Panama. She has been published in several literary journals and has also had her first poetry chapbook published last fall: “Midwest Musings” by Finishing Line Press.
Update:
The Southwest Word Fiesta (SSWF) proudly presents an interview by Emily Guerra from KRWG on the program “Puentes.” In this edition of PUENTES a la comunidad (Bridges to the Community), Guerra spoke with Heather Frankland, the 2024 SSWF Poet Laureate and the sixth Poet Laureate of Silver City, NM, about her new role as Poet Laureate of Silver City and Grant County.
