Fires Fires
"Fires Fires" is a personal essay by Caitlin Lorraine Johnson about the effect of global uncertainty on the small scale of a life.
September 06, 2024
creative writing
Twin Tracks
Aleina Grace Edwards considers the ways science, religion, and climate change run together in the Dinosaur Capital of Texas.
March 01, 2024
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
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. 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
EssayNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Becoming More Cottonwood
Cottonwoods, giants of riparian habitats, are dying, branch by branch. Erin Elder reflects on the life and death of these trees and how they foreshadow what is to come.
August 26, 2022
