We’ve posted the schedule for the 2015 Southwest Festival of the Written Word. Like everything in life, it’s subject to change, but it’s a pretty true representation of what will be offered up for your enjoyment on the first weekend in October. So take a look and start planning to attend. Join us! […]
April is National Poetry Month. The Southwest Festival of the Written Word and the Silver City Library are proud to present two events to celebrate National Poetry Month. Both are open to the public free of charge. Please join us! Tuesday, April 14, 2015 10:00 –11:00am Silver City Library, 515 West College Avenue […]
Silver City has a new Poet Laureate. Elise Stuart was selected by the Southwest Festival of the Written Word and the Silver City Town Council to be the second person to hold this honorary title. She will hold the position for two years. As Poet Laureate, she will promote expanding the power of the written […]
Nominations are now being sought for the Silver City area’s second Poet Laureate, following Bonnie Buckley Maldonado’s tenure as the first. This honorary position is awarded to a person who has established a presence in the world of poetry, has demonstrated a commitment to the literary art form, and who embraces the opportunity to engage […]
Spring as a Poem Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope play “Home on the Range”, Dr. Brewster M. Higley, 1870’s A fox in a box amazed a human astonished the fox. A bird box, a fox box a fox will adapt. Spring is a […]
Bonnie Buckley Maldonado is Silver City’s first Poet Laureate. She is the award-winning author of four books of poetry and has been anthologized in many more. She was a Willa Finalist by Women Writing the West, in 2010. She is a retired professor and dean from Western New Mexico University. We invite you to read […]
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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