Santa Fe Poetry Broadside... Issue #6, January, 1999

Mary McGinnis

Mary McGinnis's has made her home in New Mexico since 1972. The beauty and fragility of the desert have obviously influenced her writing and her world view. Her most recent book of poetry, Listening for Cactus (Sherman-Asher Press), is available in book and audio cassette forms from the publisher (1-800-474-1543), and available in Braille from the author (151 H1 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505).
--Order from Amazon.com: Listening for Cactus.

poems in the Broadside, this issue... Cancer Pantoum -- Things I Still Want to Tell You -- No Point In -- A Jainist She's Not
poems in the Broadside, issue #19... Trail of Songs:
Making Too many Friends -- Sending Men Back to the Sea -- A Poem in One Place -- Waiting for Daddy -- Eating Stone Soup -- Deliberately Left in the Dark -- Women's Party -- Applebanana Baby -- Swallowing the Bread Crumb Trail -- The Widow Opening Her Heart -- The Widow's Soup -- The Widow Recovering from Love

Mark Matthiessen

Mark Mathiessen is a nurse and writer living in Santa Fe.

poems in the Broadside... Questions and Answers -- A Caffeinated Revival of Art

Julia Goldberg

Julia Goldberg is a staff writer at The Santa Fe Reporter; and is at work on a novel.

poem in the Broadside... The Boys I Mean

Barbara Riley

Barbara Riley came from Los Angeles and zen practice seventeen years ago to write under the influence of yet another Mt. Baldy in Santa Fe.

poem in the Broadside, this issue... Chamblee-Tucker Road

poem in the Broadside, issue #8... Mt. Baldy Rohatsu 1978

Karin Syversen

Karin Syversen worked with high school dropouts in Harlem and taught literature at Evergreen College in Olympia, Washinton, before retiring at age forty-five to commit to poetry. Her work has been published in A Gathering of Tribes, West, and Are We There Yet? She lives in the heart of the Espanola Valley where she cultivates beginner's mind.

poem in the Broadside... Stopped Life -- Waiting for Dark at the Pines & Palms Motel -- Jumping

Elaine Sutton

Elaine Sutton, a long-time Santa Fe resident, is currently living in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she leads creative writing workshops. She will return to Santa Fe this summer.

poem in the Broadside... Zhong HaiYuan's Kidney

Miriam Sagan

Miriam Sagan's books include Dirty Laundry: 100 Days in a Zen Monastery (now in its second edition, from New World Library), a joint diary written with Robert Winson. She and Joan Logghe are the editors of Another Desert : Jewish Poetry of New Mexico (Sherman Asher), and are offering a series of workshops and readings on Jewish poetry in New Mexico. Her most recent books are a volume of poetry, The Widow's Coat (Ahsahta Press, 1999), and Unbroken Line: Writing in the Lineage of Poetry (Sherman Asher, 1999).
--Order from Amazon.com: Another Desert || order Dirty Laundry || order Unbroken Line.

webstuff: Miriam Sagan's Website

poem in the Broadside, this issue... Point Hope

poems in the Broadside, issue #1... San Francisco -- Empty Orchestra

poems in the Broadside, issue #12:  The Cage:

The Cage -- Something to Read -- Waking -- Occultation Tanka -- Cliff Zazen -- The Lake -- Clovis -- Spirit -- Writing on Aspen -- Remarriage -- Shoe Repair -- Dar-Al-Islam

Mark Weber

Mark Weber, a second generation Okie, currently lives in Albuquerque. He's written countless poems and short stories.

graphic in the Broadside... (that fly)