What We’re Reading: Horses
NAVAJO NATION poet laureate Jake Skeets won several national awards for his 2019 debut, which centers on queer eros on the rez. His stunning follow-up, Horses (Milkweed Editions), describes…
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Tag: Poetry
What We’re Reading: The Kármán Line
T HE KÁRMÁN LINE (Rescue Press), the title of Daisy Atterbury’s breathtaking, genre-blurring memoir in poetry and prose, refers to the threshold between Earth and outer space. “Above the Kármán line,”…
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Arthur Sze's Poetic Journey
“When a black butterfly flits past, when you glimpse the outlines of apple trees, when you smell the sprig of sunrise and walk up to the ditch …” ARTHUR SZE’S NEW BOOK OF POEMS leads off with a simple…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Party with a poet. As a poet, performer, and musician, Natachee Momaday Gray (Kiowa/Apache) tells stories in many forms. Her debut poetry collection, Silver Box , is a testament to her wordsmithing…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 See an artist capture the stars. The legacy of Charles Ross in the world of land art cannot be overstated. Inspired by the stars, time, planetary motion, and how human perception changes as we…
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What We’re Reading: Light as Light
“LANGUAGE IS AT THE BASE and core of relating to others,” Acoma Pueblo poet Simon J. Ortiz writes in Light as Light (University of Arizona Press). “Language is motion. Action. Doing. Letting. Sharing…
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The Power of the Pen
“I LOVE MY SOLITARY LIFE,” says Albuquerque poet, novelist, and screenwriter Jimmy Santiago Baca. Abandoned by his parents as a toddler, Baca spent portions of his youth in a Santa Fe orphanage before…
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What We're Reading: A Luminous Uplift
NORTHERN NEW MEXICO poet John Brandi traverses three continents and 40 years in A Luminous Uplift: Landscape & Memory (White Pine Press). Brandi divides his tome into travelogues of places he’s…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Celebrate America’s birthday. Fourth of July in Socorro Socorro marks America’s 248th birthday with two days of live music starting Wednesday, July 3, at the Rodeo and Sports Complex. Country star…
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Finding “A House in Taos”
AMONG THE BEST-LOVED POETS OF the 20th century, Langston Hughes stands tall. No shortage of poetry lovers around the globe can recite his “I, Too, Sing America,” but relatively few New Mexicans have…
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