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, as designated by the Academy of American Poets. The event is sponsored by several different cultural/literary, education, and publishing organizations including the American Booksellers Association and American Libraries magazine (published by the American Library Association). You may notice National Poetry Month posters appearing in the local libraries; every year’s poster […]
Written by Harry Williamson, this fantastic article about Bonnie Buckley Maldonado is reproduced with permission and first appeared in the June 2012 Desert Exposure. If your idea of a poet creates images of being straight-laced and library-quiet, of gossamery clouds and perfect roses, think again. Silver City’s new poet laureate — named in April for […]
We have received exciting news: High Desert Haiku 2013 is now registering poets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/295469 This poetry competition will occur on April 25-27, 2013. Here’s how the organizers describe it: “We will accept 32 registrants for this competition. The tournament is currently structured to be double elimination so you will have at least two opportunities to […]
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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