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POETRY-FRIENDLY BOOKSTORES


Alamosa Books
8810 Holly Avenue, NE
Suite D
Albuquerque, NM
(505) 797-7101

Bird Song Used Books
1708 Central Avenue SE
Albuquerque, NM
(505) 268-7204

Bookworks
4022 Rio Grande NW
Albuquerque, NM
(505) 344-8139

Collected Works Bookstore
2012 Galisteo Street
Santa Fe, NM
(505) 988-4226

Garcia Street Books
376 Garcia Street
Santa Fe, NM 87501
(505) 986-0151

Page One Bookstore
1108 Montgomery Blvd NE
Albuquerque, NM
(505) 294-2026

Moby Dickens Bookshop
124A Bent Street
#6 Dunn House
Taos, NM 87571
(575) 758-3050

Title Wave Books
2318 Wisconsin Street NE
Albuquerque, NM
(505)294-9495

Tome on the Range
116 Bridge St
Las Vegas, NM
(505) 454-9944

UNM Bookstore 2301 Central Avenue NE
Albuquerque, NM
(505)277-5451

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
Dana Levin
Diane Thiel
Matt Donovan
Valerie Martinez
Sawnie Morris
Michelle Holland
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 Book Association
The statewide non-profit organization serving all book professionals — publishers, authors, editors, illustrators, booksellers, librarians, designers, writers, typesetters, printers, service bureaus, literacy advocates, agents, and reviewers. Founded in 1994, NMBA provides services including professional development workshops, the Libro Newsletter, monthly networking luncheons, New Mexico's Book World (the resource guide to the state's book community), a monthly online events calendar, opportunities to show and sell books at major book festivals and trade shows.

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.

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.

New Mexico CultureNet
New Mexico CultureNet has developed and run educational poetry programs, in schools and online, for almost ten years. Its poetry resources include a poetry archive, a Poets in the Schools program, a WebSlam, a Poetry Jam, and an online events calendar.

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 Antiquarian Book Show
Exhibitors collectors, and local authors gather for two days a year to buy and sell rare books.

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.

La Sociedad Para Las Artes
Since the 1980s, La Sociedad para las Artes has acted as the main outreach organization for the NMSU English department. The organization hosts free evening readings of national caliber, of readers who also offer manuscript consultation to graduate students and craft talks to high school students, undergraduates, graduate students and community members. Since 1996, La Sociedad has offered a Writers-in-the-Schools (WITS) program, a creative writing arts program supporting impoverished school systems. The cornerstone of La Sociedad’s activities is the Distinguished Visiting Writer Series, which began in 1980.

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

Santa Fe Literary Review
The Santa Fe Community College Literary Review is published by the School of Liberal Arts and Core Studies of Santa Fe Community College. It invites submissions of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction of a general literary interest as well as visual arts.

The Drunken Boat
Taking its title from Rimbaud's poem "Le bateau ivre," the Drunken Boat is a quarterly online publication, concerned with not only the forms, styles, and substances of poetry, but also the place of poetry—and, by extension, of art—in life, society and civilization.

University of New Mexico Press
Founded in 1929, UNM Press publishes books on the cultures and histories of New Mexico and the West, American Indians, anthropology, archeology, art and photography, Chicano/a studies, and Latin America. The Press also publishes and distributes biographies and literature.

Museum of New Mexico Press
Founded in 1951, the Museum of New Mexico Press is an award-winning publisher of finely designed and crafted books that reflect the collections of the Museum of New Mexico and explore the culture of the Southwest. Specializations include fine art and folk art, photography, Native Americana, the Hispanic Southwest, nature and gardening, and architecture and style.

Puerto del Sol
Puerto del Sol, founded in 1965, is the journal of the English Department at New Mexico State University dedicated to providing a forum for innovative poetry, prose, drama, criticism and artwork from emerging and established writers and artists.

Blue Mesa Review
The literary magazine of the University of New Mexico creative writing program, Blue Mesa Review publishes outstanding and innovative fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, along with interviews and book reviews.

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.

Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico
Established in 1954, the Foundation is one of the oldest artist residence programs in the country. The Foundation keeps a low profile, and serves as a haven for poets, writers, composers, photographers, and artists. Located on 18 acres in Taos, New Mexico, the fellowship offers three-month artist residencies in a private studio in the Taos Valley.

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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