Santa Fe Poetry Broadside... Issue #3, September, 1998

John Brandi

A prolific writer and passionate traveler, John Brandi has resided in New Mexico for the past thirty years. His poems and paintings have been enjoyed by the international community for several decades. In 1996 he and Renée Gregorio were married outside a remote mountain village on the island of Bali at the base of Tanah Barak waterfall. Recent books include Heartbeat Geography, selected and uncollected poems (White Pine Press) and Weeding the Cosmos (La Alameda Press), a collection of American Haiku. Forthcoming: Reflections in the Lizard's Eye, essays from the New Mexican desert (Western Edge Press) and No Other Business Here, a poetic correspondence with Steve Sanfield (La Alameda Press). --Order from Amazon.com: Heartbeat Geography || order Weeding the Cosmos.

poems in the broadside... From Bali Journals -- Received in Today's Mail, Letters from Two Poets -- Late Afternoon, Following Women in Trance to the Temple -- Because He Sees While Sleeping -- Holy is Every Man's Angel Where Hides the Mirror of Perfection -- In Sleep We...

paintings... "When She's Full on the Earth" -- "Invocation of the Muse" -- Au Revoir"

Renée Gregorio

Renée Gregorio earned her master's degree at Antioch University in London. Over the past ten years, her work has appeared in many journals in England and the United States-- The Rialto, Writing Women, Iris, Exquisite Corpse, Fish Drum, Blue Mesa Review, Heaven Bone, Frank, and is forthcoming in Tundra and American Tanka. Her work also appears in the anthologies Saludos! and The New Mexico Poetry Renaissance. She is one of the founding editors of The Taos Review. Her second collection, The Storm That Tames Us, is forthcoming in Spring 1999 from La Alameda Press.

poems in the broadside... Islands of Contained Light -- Raking the Wild -- The Painted and the Real -- The Beginning Island -- Unmasking: Selections from the Bali Journals