A shell. A picture. A fish.
WritingsVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Laura Neal reflects on her earliest memories of water and the profound presence water has for humanity as a whole.
Mar 03
Writings
Mar 03
Water Chaser
WritingsVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Albuquerque-based writer Nick O'Brien pens a short story on the ebbs and flows of water—and morale—in the Southwest.
Aug 26
Concerning the minor vaquero character who is one of three men to die in an attempted mutiny against John Wayne’s “Dunson” and his cattle drive in Howard Hawks’s Red River
WritingsVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
"Concerning the minor vaquero character..." is a semi-fictional vignette imagining a deeper life for a minor Chicano character in a major motion picture.
Oct 29
Repetition
Steve Jansen rummages through the concept of repetition—from hashtag-self-care rituals to daily pandemic infection counts—in this short-form musing essay.
Oct 29
The Color of an Avocado
d. ward contemplates the color of an avocado, brought forth by The Modern Lovers, whether it’s the Brogden variety or a greater reflection on the Artworld-Industrial Complex.
Oct 29
On Theft and Mesh
Briana Olson mourns the theft of a King Tut death mask replica and confronts loss in a personal essay about mesh.
Aug 28
Aug 01
What Pain Can Do
About the pain. I’ll first describe it clinically, as if I were a camera. I began to sweat everywhere after a flash of heat lit my skin (the whole organ). I lost the ability or will to control the movement of my eyes, which rolled around the room. My eyes also streamed tears, though my face lacked the grimaces and spasms which normally accompany them. Finally, I moaned.
Jun 26
Writings: Medallions
After planting and harvesting crops for over forty years, you would think a being might finally comprehend the ephemeral nature of all things. Not, alas, this one. At least not within my deep inner recesses, in the private folds of knowing...
May 24
Writings + The Printed Page
John Shepherd’s pack weighed him down, straps cutting into fleece, water bottle digging into his hip. The hike had taken longer than he’d anticipated. The light was fading...
Apr 26
Oct 30
The Fish in the Trees
The leaves in the trees, one night—more leaves than there are stars in the sky, more leaves than there are eyes to look up at the night sky to see them with—
Oct 01
I Heard it Was the War
All this madness has made me terribly sad. I didn't buy the diet pills because they were too expensive. Or perhaps, that's life. The world tells you for so long...
Two Poems from Gondwana
Nathaniel Tarn (b. 1928, Paris) is an American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator. He emigrated to the United States in 1970 and taught at several American universities, primarily Rutgers, where he was a professor from 1972 until 1985. He has lived outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico since his retirement from Rutgers...
Apr 01
Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels (1976), near Lucin, UT
After you've Googled the Sun Tunnels and copied the coordinates from The Center for Land Use Interpretation website into your phone, and driven two hours around the Salt Lake from the Spiral Jetty, accidentally by way of Snowville, Idaho, where no one wants to make you a milkshake, you will find yourself dangerously close to Nevada...
Feb 01
Two Poems from Ruins of Modernity
Kate Ingold is a visual artist and poet working in a variety of media. In her work, she examines issues of disturbance, reparation, and collapse, and the nostalgia and regret that can accompany loss....
Dec 01
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Apr 01
Matriz del Sol
“C C’s house!” they’d chime at any abandoned alpine shack or desert ruin, / Though 50 years passed before she drove the 3 mph road off Hwy 14 between Cerrillos and Madrid
