Published Poems, Stories & Articles

  • 2011 "Sonnet for Police Officers Charged with Enforcing SB 1070", La Bloga (5-24-11 On-Line Floricanto) and Poets Responding to SB 1070
  • 2009 "Tortuga Crawls on Spanish Peaks" SIN FRONTERAS/Writers Without Borders Journal #13, Spring 2009
  • 2009 "The Effect of Light on Tar and Lavender Oil" Tiger's Eye: A Journal of Poetry (3rd-Place Winner of 2009 Poetry Contest)
  • 2009 "Genealogy of Process" THREADED LIVES: Poems from the Fiber World (October 2009)
  • 2009 "Elegy for Mona Ohlin" (Letterpress broadside to be used as a yearly award for the Alliance for Quality Education, San Diego, CA)
  • 2008 "Seed of Granada" The Master's Hand: Reflections on RANE 2008 (July 2008)
  • 2008 "Finding the Map to Mora Within The Walls of the City of Faith" The Frank Waters Foundation Aspen Sun "Sheltering the Creative Spirit" Volume XV, Number 1, April 2008 http://www.frankwaters.org/newsletter_2008.htm
  • 2007 & 2006 Articles in Huerfano World
  • 2007 "When Skin Turns Into Dust" Heartlodge
  • 2006 Noticias-Genealogical Society of Hispanic America

Readings

  • 2012 5/6 "Deconstructing Perestroika", Moderated by Brendan Constantine, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA (Poem TBD)
  • 2012 10/6 "Elements: An Ekphrastic Event" (Location TBD); Curated by Tricia DuBois; Sponsored by Andrea Watson and 3: A Taos Press (Poem TBD)
  • 2011 October Mary Kay Inspiring Stories, Documentary
  • 2011 10/07 "Fragments: Poets and Artists of the South and Southwest", Hosted by Harrington Brown Gallery, Memphis TN; Curated by Andrea L. Watson and David Hinske (Ekphrasis event featuring 24 Southern and Southwestern poets and artists)
  • 2010 9/15 - 9/17 "Festival de Flor y Canto. Yesterday • Today • Tomorrow", USC Doheny Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Poems: "Climbing Ropes with Raw Wounds", "Where Lies the Edge of El Penasco", "Pass the Farolito", "What the Birds with the Human Brains Know"
  • 2010 10/30 - 10/31 "Frida.Fractured" Hosted by the J Fine Art Gallery, Taos, NM; Curated by Veronica Golos & Andrea Watson (Group of 40 multicultural artists, poets, musicians, dancers, & architects from across the U.S. select a "fracture", or fragment, from Kahlo's art, life, activism, or suffering & develop a deepened response to her life or work - or experiment with new techniques or challenges prompted by Kahlo); Poem: "Painted Descanso: Senora Strewing Marigolds on the Path of Her Own Body"
  • 2010 10/29 "Poets Forum" Hosted by Three Muses at RANE Gallery, Taos, NM (Award-winning poets from across the United States read new works); Poems: "Beneath the Rainbow Cellophane of Skin", "Remember Your Grandma"
  • 2009 8/22 Taos Mountain Men Presentation (including one mountain man poem from a work in progress) with Dr. Doug Daniels, Family History Center, Orange, CA; Poem: "River of Burning Men"
  • 2009 10/3 "THREADED LIVES: Poems from the Fiber World", RANE Gallery, Taos, NM (Group Performance by Poets & Fiber Artists in conjunction with the Wool Festival), Poem: "Genealogy of Process"
  • 2008 10/11 "Interwoven Illuminations" RANE Gallery, Taos NM (Group Performance by 12 Poets, 12 Artists & 3 Musicians) Poem: "What the Birds with the Human Brains Know"
  • 2008 07/18 "The Master's Hand: Reflections on RANE" RANE Gallery, Taos NM (Group Performance and Book Signing), Poem: "Seed of Granada"
  • 2008 06/25 "Long Time Gone: Pantoum for Julian Pope" (mountain man William Pope). Genealogical Society of Hispanic America National Conference, Sagebrush Inn Conference Center, Taos NM
  • 2007 09/22 "Reflections on RANE" RANE Gallery, Taos NM (Group Performance), Poem: "Seed of Granada"

In Progress

Pass the Farolito - con cariño for our elders who gave us life - The book is completed and is being considered for publication by a New Mexico publisher.

Path from the Island of Creativity. Chapbook of poems for Frau Marlena's kindergarten class at Anneliese School in Laguna Beach. Illustrated by the students.

Mountain Man Poems (a beginning work in progress) - Narrative poetry about the life of John David Albert, hero and survivor of the Massacre at Turley's Mill during the Taos War of 1847, and his Hispano wife, Maria Juliana Vigil.

Local History Poems (works in progress) - Poems about the history of places, now called Los Angeles and Orange County, that once were provinces of Spain and Mexico. Poems about Hispano villages in New Mexico and Southern Colorado.
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