New Mexico Literary Arts

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Alvaro Cardona-Hine, 2015 Gratitude Awardee, reads "To My Father".

New Mexico Literary Arts

New Mexico Literary Arts has had a rollicking history in its effort to become a culturally, poetically and socially relevant entity. Originally granted 501(c)3 status as the Poetry Center of New Mexico, a new board with a new, broader mission was formed in 1997, and re-incarnated with all credentials intact as NMLA. We have produced events in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and elsewhere in New Mexico.

Each member of our working board have themselves produced many literary/visual art workshops and events, performed, taught or served in an administrative capacity in the arts. As a 501(c)3 organization, we have successfully collaborated with other organizations acting as their fiscal agent to administer their grants. In this way we hope to make a potent and valuable contribution to the literary arts and cultural community of New Mexico

New Mexico Literary Arts recognizes the needs of other organizations around the state who are applying for grants which require a 501(c)3 status fiscal agent. We can offer our expertise in fulfilling this end of the grant submission process. Please contact us with the scope of your project and how we may be of assistance.

There are also instances where a project is not grant-driven, but help is needed in making it a success. New Mexico Literary Arts Board Members have a wide range of experiences and are willing to offer technical assistance or simply knowledgeable advice.

Board of Directors

Joan Logghe, President

Joan Logghe is dedicated to bringing poetry into daily life through accessible yet serious writing, humor, and projects such as PoemHolders, Poet Retablos, and community art workshops. She has been teaching to students of all ages for over thirty years and has traveled as close as Ghost Ranch and as far as Zagreb, Croatia. Her most recent books are The Singing Bowl (UNM PRess), three times short listed in awards, Love & Death (Tres Chicas Books) with Miriam Sagan and Renée Gregorio, a New Mexico Book Award winner. She was Santa Fe's Poet Laureate 2010-2012 and won a National Endowment in Poetry. She lives in northern New Mexico where she is visited by children and grandkids. Her website is joanlogghe.com and she blogs at http://thepoemdifferent.blogspot.com

Anne Valley Fox, Vice-President

Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Anne Valley-Fox has lived in New Mexico for over 3 decades. Her poetry books include: How Shadows Are Bundled (University of New Mexico Press, 2009), Point of No Return (La Alameda Press, 2006), Fish Drum 15 (Fish Drum Press, 1999) and Sending the Body Out (Zephyr Press, 1986). She published Your Mythic Journey (with Sam Keen, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1989) and is co-editor of five oral history collections from the New Mexico Federal Writers’ Project (Sunstone Press, 2008-2013). Please see AnneValleyFox.com.

Michelle Holland, Treasurer

Michelle Holland lives, writes, gardens, and runs in Chimayo, New Mexico. Her books include the collection “Event Horizon,” included in The Sound a Raven Makes (Tres Chicas Press), and Chaos Theory (Sin Fronteras Press). She is the treasurer of the New Mexico Literary Arts (NMLA) board, one of the poetry editors of the Sin Fronteras Journal, and an active member of the board of New Mexico CultureNet.

JB Bryan, Secretary
JB Bryan is painter, poet, potter, letterpress printer, publisher of La Alameda Press, former bookseller at Living Batch Bookstore, and a graphic designer. He was educated in Iowa, British Columbia, New Mexico, and California, formally and otherwise. As a 35-year plus semi-native of Albuquerque, he and family have a funky but lovely existence in the North Valley. He maintains a studio and orchard in Placitas, where he has built a small teahouse in the vernacular wabi dada style. www.laalamedapress.com

Gary Glazner
(Non voting, board member Emeritus)
Project Director, Alzheimer's Poetry Project

Don McIver

Elizabeth Raby

Elizabeth Raby’s memoir, Ransomed Voices, published by Red Mountain Press in 2013, received an award from New Mexico Press Women. She is the author of three books of poems, This Woman (2012), a finalist for the 2013 NM-AZ Book Award, Ink on Snow, (2010) and The Year the Pears Bloomed Twice, (2009) all from Virtual Artists Collective (www.vacpoetry.org). A graduate of Vassar College (BA) and Temple University (MA in English-Creative Writing), Ms. Raby has lived in Santa Fe since 2001. She and her husband conduct a monthly open poetry reading at Teatro Paraguas in Santa Fe.

Edie Tsong

Edie Tsong is an artist/writer activist whose projects explore how we connect with one another. Her projects have taken the form of conceptual portraits using text, video conference, clay, drawing, installation and performance. She has exhibited internationally, and lectured nationally. She is the founder of Cut+Paste Society, and the Founding Director of Snow Poems Project.
www.edietsong.com
www.snowpoemsproject.com

The Alzheimer's Poetry Project (APP)

The Alzheimer's Poetry Project (APP) founded by poet Gary Glazner in Santa Fe, New Mexico as a project of New Mexico Literary Arts in December, 2003. To date the APP has held programming in 23 states and internationally in Germany, Poland and South Korea, serving over 20,000 people living with dementia. The Alzheimer's Poetry Project was awarded the 2012 MetLife Foundation Creativity and Aging in America Leadership Award in the category of Community Engagement. More info at www.alzpoetry.com

Photo: At MoMA performing a poem inspired by "Starry Night."