Santa Fe Poetry Broadside... Issue #8, April, 1999

Jay Udall

Jay Udall works as a legal aide on behalf of uranium miners and teaches creative writing in the continuing education program of Santa Fe Community College. His poems and short stories have appeared in such magazines as South Dakota Review, Georgetown Review, Pearl, Wind, Sou'wester, and Soundings East. His first book of poetry, Learning the Language, was recently published by Bellowing Ark Press.

poem in the Broadside... The Tilelayer

Laurie Macrae

Laurie Macrae is a poet and critic whose work has appeared in Avalanche, The Santa Fe Reporter, Rhythm Music, The Workbook, and several anthologies. She is also the Director of the Taos Public Library and serves on the Board of the Taos Poetry Circus. She is a life-long New Mexican.

poem in the Broadside... Prayer

Donald Levering

Donald Levering has worked as a groundskeeper, free-lance journalist, college English instructor, and government analyst. His poetry book publications include The Primal Field, a poetic adaptation of an ethnological text of Dogan myth (Ba Shiru, 1979), three poetry chapbooks, The Jack of Spring (Swamp Press, 1980), Carpool (Tellus, 1983), and Mister Ubiquity (Pudding House, 1997), and a collection of poems from Navajo Community College Press, Outcroppings From Navajoland (1985). He was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowship in Poetry, the $5,000 Quest for Peace Writing Contest (rhetoric), and was semi-finalist in the Carnegie-Mellon Poetry Series.
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poem in the Broadside... Teaching Children to Sigh

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... Mt. Baldy Rohatsu 1978

poem in Broadside Issue #6... Chamblee-Tucker Road

Kathleen Newroe

Kathleen Newroe studied poetry at the undergraduate Iowa Writers Workshop in the mid 1960s. "I was wild with youth, subsequently corralled, branded, and put out to pasture where these days I glory in the sensual secrets of the Southwest." Most recently, she received honorable mention in The Atlanta Monthly's 1998 International Poetry Competition. Her work has appeared in Heart of the Flower: Poems for the Sensuous Gardener; Life on the Line; Peace is Our Profession; Poets on Photography; Benzene Magazine; The Lake Street Review; and Antenna: Anonymous Issue. Since 1992, she has written a twice-monthly column, "Access to Answers for New Mexicans with Disabilities", for the state capitol newspaper, The Santa Fe New Mexican. "Husband of Night" is from an unpublished chapbook manuscript.

poem in the Broadside... Husband of Night

Miriam Bobkoff

Miriam Bobkoff is a librarian, reader, watcher of ships, and denizen of beaches. She does the webwork for the Santa Fe Poetry Broadside, and now lives in Port Angeles, Washington.

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poems in the Broadside... Time-Slice in Milliseconds -- (First) Report on bringing (back) stones -- Unexpected Elegy

J. B. Bryan

J. B. Bryan's own work mirrors the focus of his publishing house, La Alameda Press; "...the spirit of the North Valley - a mixture of funk, elegance, and tenacity."

poems in the Broadside... Paradise -- Three Sections from Wide-Eyed & Greywater: "I have a broom, my wife has a broom" -- "My version of utopia?" -- "Solid as a beast"