Poetry

Local Native American poet talks trauma on national podcast

‘You are the answers to our ancestors’ prayers’

DATE: Jun 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

New anthology collects dozens of poems about pandemic

NEW YORK – As the coronavirus spread in March, poet Ada Limon struggled at first to write, feeling “flattened and silenced” by a pandemic that had shut down much of the world she knew. ...

DATE: May 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Books

Colorado’s poet laureate talks pandemic, National Poetry Month

LeFebre: There’s no right or wrong way to write poetry

DATE: Apr 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Books

Navajo poet Jake Skeets wins Whiting Award

GALLUP, N.M. – Navajo poet Jake Skeets has been named one of the winners of this year’s Whiting Award. The Gallup Independent reports the Giles Whiting Foundation recently anno...

DATE: Mar 31, 2020 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

New Mexico poets holding fundraiser for El Paso victims

ALBUQUERQUE – The poet laureate of New Mexico’s largest city is helping organize a poetry reading fundraising for the victims of the El Paso mass shooting. Michelle Otero will co...

DATE: Aug 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Four Corners Poets come to Mancos

Navajo women speak of identity, literature at library

DATE: May 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Four Corners Poets come to Mancos

Navajo women speak of identity, literature at library

DATE: May 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Poet Joy Harjo wins Jackson Prize

NEW YORK – Poet Joy Harjo has won a $65,000 prize for writers deemed worthy of greater recognition. Poets & Writers announced Thursday that Harjo had received the Jackson Prize, a...

DATE: Apr 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Four Corners Poets at Mancos Public Library

Library hosting poetry reading by four Navajo women

DATE: Apr 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Sam Shepard novel coming out in December

NEW YORK – A novel Sam Shepard completed shortly before his death is coming out in December. In an announcement Wednesday, Alfred A. Knopf says that Spy of the First Person will b...

DATE: Oct 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Review: Of Cartography adventurous, playful

Before even opening the pages of Esther Belin’s newest collection of poems, Of Cartography, the multi-talented artist/poet reveals hints about her intentions. Belin’s cover illustration depi...

DATE: Oct 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books

Esther Belin to talk about her new book at Maria’s Bookshop

For Bayfield writer and artist Esther Belin, her new book of poems, Of Cartography, was a long time coming. Belin, whose 1999 book From the Belly of My Beauty won the American...

DATE: Oct 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books

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