WritingsColoradoRadical Futures
The Life-Warmth of the Universe
Noah Travis Phillips’s more optimistic, queer, and contemporary “cover” of Pamela Zoline’s feminist collage sci-fi classic “The Heat Death of the Universe.”
September 06, 2024
Writings
WritingsNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Landscaping with Brick
In the early 20th century, bricks were brought over Raton Pass to Raton, New Mexico from the Trinidad Brick Company. We stole this brick for our backyard.
September 01, 2023
Writings2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Two Poems from Susto by Tommy Archuleta
Two poems from Susto, Tommy Archuleta's debut poetry book.
May 26, 2023
WritingsVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
A shell. A picture. A fish.
Laura Neal reflects on her earliest memories of water and the profound presence water has for humanity as a whole.
March 03, 2023
WritingsVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Water Chaser
Albuquerque-based writer Nick O'Brien pens a short story on the ebbs and flows of water—and morale—in the Southwest.
March 03, 2023
WritingsVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
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
"Concerning the minor vaquero character..." is a semi-fictional vignette imagining a deeper life for a minor Chicano character in a major motion picture.
August 26, 2022
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.
October 29, 2021
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.
October 29, 2021
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.
October 29, 2021
Father
Julia Brennan is a writer and performer from central New York. Her work has been published in Hotel America, Big Big Wednesday, and Tarpaulin Sky Press, among other publications. Her debut novel, Hunting Season, won the 2019 Tarpaulin Sky Book Award and will be published in 2020.
August 28, 2019
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.
August 01, 2019
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...
June 26, 2019
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...
May 24, 2019
Five Poems: Marie Claire Bryant
1 We drove to a place to look up...
April 26, 2019
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—
October 30, 2018
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...
October 01, 2018
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...
May 29, 2018
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...
April 01, 2018
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....
February 01, 2018
Consumed
I am both of these women. The first one opens the living room drapes, sees it happening, and screams for her husband. He doesn’t answer. She slaps the palm of her hand against the glass pane over and over again until her hand throbs. She isn’t thinking straight...
December 01, 2017
Hydro
Daniel Bohnhorst lives in Santa Fe. He works at op.cit. books and the Violin Shop of Santa Fe. [...]
August 01, 2017
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
April 01, 2017
