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POETRY-FRIENDLY BOOKSTORES


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Albuquerque, NM

The Book Shelf
3382 Hwy 434
Angel Fire, NM

Tome on the Range
116 Bridge St
Las Vegas, NM

Collected Works Bookstore
208-B West San Francisco
Santa Fe, NM

Brodsky Bookshop
226B Paseo del Pueblo Norte
Taos, NM

New Mexico Add to Notebook

If you stay put in Santa Fe, you can watch the city being transformed from four-hundred-year-old historic colonial town to adobe Disneyland by the same relentless presence that also funds a world-class opera, a world-class reading series, the third largest art market in the country, and New Age healing practices that range from fascinating to ridiculous. If the poetic involves being violently alive, then New Mexico is poetic. That's why I'm here.
Poets

Arthur Sze

Arthur Sze
Two-time winner of National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, Arthur Sze is the author of eight poetry collections. He is the first Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence
A prolific writer who wrote three books of poems, including Pansies, which was banned in his native England, D. H. Lawrence left Europe during World War I and settled in Taos, New Mexico.

Other New Mexico Poets
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Greg Glazner
Joy Harjo
Pat Mora
Yvor Winters
Jay Wright
Literary organizations & centers

Lannan Literary Foundation
This world-class foundation, which relocated to Santa Fe in 1997, offers "substantial investments in ambitious and experimental thinking," in literature, the visual arts, indigenous cultures, and cultural freedom through highly sought after grants, fellowships, and awards.

New Mexico Center for the Book
This web-based resource center organizes a network of Southwest literary programs, events, festivals, literacy services and other book-related activities targeted to making educational materials available to rural areas.

Recursos de Santa Fe
This educational, non-profit organization specializing in symposiums and conferences in the arts, sciences, humanities and letters, and tours which focus on Southwest culture, architecture and history, and which occasionally offers administrative and fiscal oversight to enable other groups to try out new ideas, and contribute to the cultural life of the Southwest.

Southwest Literary Center
One of the major literary centers in the Southwest, and a branch of Recursos de Santa Fe, The Center presents a writers Reading Series, writing contests, and three intensive writing seminars each year, the central elements of which include lectures, panel discussions, readings and small-group workshops.

The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry
Through a bequest from Witter Bynner in 1972, The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry perpetuates the art of poetry. The foundation promotes poetry in American culture and encourages grant proposals that expand awareness of the positive effects of poetry on society.

World Poetry Bout Association
This community organization works to expand the audience for poetry, literature and performance through public performances, readings, forums, panels, lectures, workshops, festivals, competitions and awards.

Readings series, conferences, & literary festivals

The Border Book Festival
This spring event in the town of Mesilla features a trade show, a storytelling tent, a mini film festival, and evening readings.

Santa Fe Festival of the Book
"A festival of Authors, Illustrators, Poets, Publishers, Book Signings, Workshops, and a Book Lovers' Fair: exhibits, entertainment & readings, AND a PARTY," which all occurs in October.

Santa Fe Writer's Conference
This summer conference is a five-day intensive writing retreat featuring workshops, craft discussions, and individualized meetings with some of today's most celebrated and dedicated authors. Nightly readings offer a chance for participants to hear new work by faculty and special guests. At the end of the week, participants will read from their own work as well.

Taos Summer Writer's Conference
Held at a local Southwest-style inn during July, this week-long event includes workshops, panel discussions, museum visits, art crawls, and a trip to the D.H. Lawrence Ranch.

Poetic History

Great Anthologies

Reversible Monuments
A concise history of Mexican poetry, discussing the artistic relationships and influences shared between the United States and Mexico in the twentieth century. Read more >

Great Anthologies

Shaking the Pumpkin  
Attempts to translate all the elements involved with the Indian North American poetic event or ritual—pictures, body movements, sounds. Read more >

The Graves of Poets The Graves of Poets
D.H. Lawrence's remains were cremated, then his ashes were mixed in with cement to build an altar on a ranch in New Mexico.
Poems about New Mexico

Passing Through Albuquerque
by John Balaban
At dusk, by the irrigation ditch...

Literary journals & small presses

Images for Media
The publisher of Yefief, IFM specializes in "Pioneering New Ways of Valuing Human Work and the Human Spirit."

Manzanita Quarterly Literary Review
Relocated from the Northwest, this newly relocated literary quarterly contains accessible poetry and short prose that "reflects depth of human experience and the natural world."

Yefief
This colorful, literary artbook periodical says of itself, " ...Each book in the yefief series dedicates itself to exploring such key transcultrual questions as... 'what is Mercy and how is it Constituted?'"

Writing programs & colonies

The College of Santa Fe
A BA in Creative Writing is offered by this small but remarkable program. Students attend readings by visiting authors and run a reading series of their own.

Hawk, I'm Your Sister
These writing centered wilderness retreats and canoe expeditions are open to all but specialize in women's groups.

Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico
Earn a three-month artist residency in a private studio in the Taos Valley, which is dotted with pueblos dating back to 900 Contact Mr. M. Knight at AD. PO Box 1891, Taos, New Mexico 87571, call 505-758-2413, or email hwf@taos.net.com

Institute of American Indian Arts
Established in 1962 by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Arts Development (IAIA) was initially a high school. In 1975 the Institute became a two-year college offering associate degrees. The Creative Writing program contains courses in poetry, fiction, and playwriting, and familiarizes students with major works of contemporary American Indian and non-Indian literature. The institute also includes a major contemporary Indian art museum.

New Mexico State University
Poets and fiction writers come to Las Cruces to earn an MFA in English with a concentration in Creative Writing. The program is closely tied with La Sociedad Para Las Artes, which for 22 years has been bringing well-known local and national writers to Las Cruces for public readings and administers a Writers in the Schools program.

University of New Mexico
The BA and MA degrees in Creative Writing consist of workshops, literature, and publishing courses. The program runs multiple reading series in which faculty, students and notable visiting authors co-read. In addition to publishing The Blue Mesa Review, UNM has, Since 1999, hosted the Taos Summer Writers' Conference in association with the D. H. Lawrence Ranch, in Taos, New Mexico.

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