All artists filed by last name under Q, R and S :
Mary Rising Higgins, George Kalamaras, and Mary Ann Cain. Reading at the Harwood Art Center in Albuquerque, NM July 19, 2006. Additional readings by Gene Frumkin recorded August 2006. Continue reading
A Tribute To Federico Garcia Lorca. The Duende Poetry Series at the Anasazi Fields Winery, Placitas, NM January 21, 2007, including Cirrelda, Jeff Bryan, Joan Logghe, Leo Romero, and Gary Brower. Continue reading
Remembering Gene Frumkin. This reading occurred at the UNM Campus on March 30, 2007. Continue reading
Michael Rothenberg and David Meltzer at the Outpost, Albuquerque, NM, October 12, 2007 Continue reading
Margaret Randall is a feminist poet, writer, photographer and social activist. Born in New York City in 1936, she has lived for extended periods in Albuquerque, New York, Seville, Mexico City, Havana, and Managua. Shorter stays in Peru and North Vietnam were also formative. In the turbulent 1960s she co-founded and co-edited EL CORNO EMPLUMADO / THE PLUMED HORN, a bilingual literary journal which for eight years published some of the most dynamic and meaningful writing of an era. From 1984 through 1994 she taught at a number of U.S. universities. In 1984, Margaret came home to the United States, only to be ordered deported when the government invoked the 1952 McCarran-Walter Immigration and Nationality Act, judging opinions expressed in some of her books to be “against the good order and happiness of the United States.” Continue reading
Lee Sharkey bought in 1974 a hundred-year-old Pearl platen press, taught herself to set type and print, and produced over the course of a long Maine winter her first poetry chapbook. Over the next four years, under the imprint South Solon Press, she printed two more chapbooks of her own poetry, portfolios of other poets’ work, and ephemera such as poems on paper lunch bags. Since then, she has continued to work both on and off the grid as a writer and an editor. Her publications include two other full-length volumes, Farmwife (Puckerbrush Press, 1977) and To A Vanished World (Puckerbrush, 1995), a poem sequence in response to Roman Vishniac’s photographs of Eastern European Jewry in the years just preceding the Nazi Holocaust. In 1997 she received Zone 3’s Rainmaker Award in Poetry, judged by Carolyn Forché. Recent poems have appeared in Green Mountains Review, Margie, Nimrod, The Pinch, and Prairie Schooner, among other journals. Since 2003 she has co-edited The Beloit Poetry Journal, one of the country’s oldest and most respected poetry journals. She lives in the woods outside of Farmington, Maine, with her husband, Al Bersbach, and stands in the weekly Women in Black peace vigil in front of the Farmington post office. Continue reading
Janet’s most recent books are Moon on an Oarblade Rowing (First Intensity 2005), collecting earlier books Orphydice, Cristals and The Book of Craving, and Terminal Colors, Selected Poems 1974-2005 (Talisman House 2006). Edited by Bruce Holsapple. Continue reading
Joseph Somoza is the author of Out Of This World (Cinco Puntos 1990), Sojourner, So To Speak (La Alameda 1997), Cityzen (La Alameda 2001), andShock of White Hair (Sin Fronteras 2007). Continue reading
Martin Reiner is the author of five books of poems and a novel. Born in Brno, Czech Republic, he attended several military academies and was imprisoned for eight months before re-entering civilian life. He has worked primarily in the arts since 1989. No Through Road is his first chapbook to be published in English. Continue reading
Manuel Mota, born 1970, Lisbon, Portugal. Public activity since 1989. Has performed in Europe and U.S.A. Between 1989 and 1997 he studies and experiments with prepared guitar, mainly acoustic. Since then his interests shifted to the development of a language for fingerstyle electric guitar. Works in a regular basis with bassist Margarida Garcia and trumpeter Sei Miguel (both collaborations since 1997) Funds the record label ‘Headlights’ in 1998. Continue reading