New Mexico Literary ArtsNew 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. |
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Board of Directors
Joan Logghe, President
www.joanlogghe.com
The Poem Different Blog
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.
Michelle Holland, Treasurer
Michelle Holland retired from over 35 years of teaching in July 2021. She is currently the Poet-in-Residence for the Santa Fe Girls School and the treasurer of NM Literary Arts. She lives in Chimayo, where she gardens, writes poetry and creative non-fiction, and runs the trails from the BLM gate through the barrancas to Truchas. Her poems can be found in literary journals, in print and on the internet, as well as in a few anthologies. She has two book-length collections of poetry, Chaos Theory, Sin Fronteras Press, and The Sound a Raven Makes, Tres Chicas Press.
yeshe salz
School of Lost Borders
yeshe ( Y ) (they/them) is a trans-disciplinary poet, queer ecologist, rites-of-passage guide, storyteller and community organizer whose life and passion is dedicated to building collective resilience in times of deep change. yeshe’s work meets at the confluence of ritual storytelling, eco-poetics and cross-cultural ceremony. They come to this work through years of study and training at the School of Lost Borders, UC Berkeley, Portland Literary Arts Institute and beyond. They are the Founder and former Editor-in-Chief of UC Berkeley’s Literary Arts & Travel Journal, and have served as contributing writer and editor at Tikkun Magazine. yeshe currently serves as Interim Co-Director for Youth Passageways.
Judyth Hill
www.judythhill.com
Judyth is the recipient of grants from the Witter Bynner Poetry Foundation, the McCune Foundation, and New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities. She served for many years as the Literature Coordinator for the New Mexico State Arts Division, while creating, owning and operating Santa Fe’s premier gourmet bakery, The Chocolate Maven, where she was as known for her brownies and for her poetry!
Her published books of poetry include Baker’s Baedeker, The Goddess Cafe, Hardwired For Love, Presence of Angels, Men Need Space, Dazzling Wobble, and Black Hollyhock, First Light. Her poems are included in numerous anthologies. She is the author of the internationally acclaimed poem, Wage Peace, which has been set to music and recorded by the Cincinnati Women’s Choir.
Judyth authored the cookbook for the celebrated Santa Fe, NM restaurant, Geronimo, published by Ten Speed Press. She is a noted food writer and journalist; and was the Santa Fe restaurant critic for the Albuquerque Journal for nine years. Judyth was described by the St. Helena Examiner as, "Energy with skin,” and by the Denver Post as, “A tigress with a pen.”
Elizabeth Jacobson
Poetry Pollinators
Elizabeth Jacobson was the fifth Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico and an Academy of American Poets 2020 Laureate Fellow. Her third collection of poems, There are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral will be published in 2024 by Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press. Her other books include, Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air, winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize, selected by Marianne Boruch, (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2019) and the 2019 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for both New Mexico Poetry and Best New Mexico Book, Her Knees Pulled In (Tres Chicas Books, 2012), two chapbooks from Dancing Girl Press, Are the Children Make Believe? and A Brown Stone, and Everything Feels Recent When You’re Far Away, Poetry and Art from Santa Fe Youth During the Pandemic (Axle Books, 2021), which she co-edited. Her poems have been published in many literary journals including the American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Plume, the Los Angeles Review, and her community projects have received eight consecutive grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. Elizabeth is a reviews editor for the on-line magazine Terrain.org., and she teaches poetry workshops regularly in Santa Fe.
Advisory Board
Anne Valley Fox
Board Member Emeritus
www.annevalleyfox.com
Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Anne Valley-Fox has lived in New Mexico for over four decades. In 2019 she published The Household Muse, an exchange of personal essays with Tom Ireland (Tres Chicas Press, 2019). Her poetry collections include Nightfall (Red Mountain Press, 2014), 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). Her first book, an exploration of personal mythology co-authored with Sam Keen, was Your Mythic Journey (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1989). As an ardent citizen of New Mexico, Valley-Fox, in collaboration with Ann Lacy, co-edited five oral history collections from the New Mexico Federal Writers’ Project (Sunstone Press, 2008-2013).
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Gary Glazner Board Member Emeritus Alzheimer's Poetry Project www.garyglazner.com Gary Glazner is a poet and author. He is the founder and Executive Director of the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project (scroll down for more info). He was a pioneer of the Poetry Slam. Glazner is using Telepresence Robots to deliver programming and creative arts training in care homes. Glazner is a leading proponent of participatory arts. |
Edie Tsong
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Board Member Emeritus
edietsong.com
Snow Poems Project
Edie Tsong (Taiwanese American) is an artist and writer. Her socially-engaged collaborations have been a part of PICA’s TBA Festival, The PASEO, and April Meetings in Belgrade. She has exhibited at the New Mexico Museum of Art, The Mattress Factory, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Aspen Art Museum, Babel Kunst, and April Meetings in Belgrade. Her limited edition artist book Scattered Memory (Women's Studio Workshop) is collected in the New York Public Library, Library of Congress. She is a VONA alum and the regional chair of Kundiman SW for Asian American writers. She lives and works in northern New Mexico with her daughter.
Social Media
Board Member Emeritus
edietsong.com
Snow Poems Project
Edie Tsong (Taiwanese American) is an artist and writer. Her socially-engaged collaborations have been a part of PICA’s TBA Festival, The PASEO, and April Meetings in Belgrade. She has exhibited at the New Mexico Museum of Art, The Mattress Factory, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Aspen Art Museum, Babel Kunst, and April Meetings in Belgrade. Her limited edition artist book Scattered Memory (Women's Studio Workshop) is collected in the New York Public Library, Library of Congress. She is a VONA alum and the regional chair of Kundiman SW for Asian American writers. She lives and works in northern New Mexico with her daughter.
