New Mexico Literary Arts
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    • Call for Proposals 2015
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    • Writing as Medicine 2015
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Alvaro Cardona-Hine, 2015 Gratitude Awardee, reads "To My Father".
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​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

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Joan Logghe, Co-President
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.

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Anne Valley Fox, Co-President
​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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​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. 



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


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Edie Tsong, Web Mistress
edietsong.com
snowpoemsproject.com

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. 

The Alzheimer's Poetry Project (APP)

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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. 






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

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