Includes bibliographical references.

Preface: Poetry as a Pathway to Liberation / Tim Keller -- Introduction: A Conversation between the Editors / Valerie Martinez and Shelle VanEtten de Sanchez -- Part One: The Names We Give These Spaces. Prayer to the Heat / Tanesia R. Hale-Jones -- Las Madrecitas de Barelas / Maria L. Leyba -- Nothing Was What it Pretended / Margaret Randall -- When We Speak Gujarati / Anushah Jiwani -- Matriz / Michelle Otero -- The Anthropologist / Anushah Jiwani -- A Race We Run / Billy Babb -- Empty Sky in October / Cal Reardon -- Eclipse / Susan Mitchell -- Can't Stop / Valerie Martinez -- ABQ Manifesto / Hakim Bellamy --

Part Two: Never Giving Up Our Roots. Azucarero / Levi Romero -- Monarch / Gregory L. (Goyo) Candela -- September Tomatoes / Tanesia R. Hale-Jones -- Unendangered Weeds / Megan Baldrige -- Unbridled / Janet St. John -- Swimming the Herd (How to Think Like a Cow) / Mary McCray -- I Walk Today Alone / Carolyn Fresquez -- The Sandias, 2008 / Olivia Gatwood -- from "What's Not Atomic?" / V. B. Price -- To Be Alive in This City / Jessica Helen Lopez -- Part Three: Paths Cut Through the Dry Earth. In the Year of Our Peril / Sylvia Ramos Cruz -- Pandemic Fatigue / Jenna L. Norton -- prophesy on an Albuquerque day / Mary Oishi -- Imagine Mars / Mary McCray -- Veterano Sanctuary / Carlos Contreras -- Hilltop / Tani Arness -- Hyder Park / Feroza Jussawalla -- Ditches / Tani Arness -- Almost Blue / Don McIver -- La Luz / Margaret Randall -- Chile Hearts / Crystal Coriz -- In Bernalillo, A Blessing / Jules Nyquist -- Misa / Michelle Otero --

Part Four: Strange Transformations. New Mexico Department of Tourism (A Haiku) / Hakim Bellamy -- Out West / Peter Pachak-Robie -- When the River Liked to Party / Megan Baldrige -- from "The Sandias, Spring 1972" / R. Naso -- Central Avenue / Bill O'Neill -- In a House on Candelaria Road / Ryan M. Stark -- All Eyeteeth out of the Cocoon / Susan Mitchell -- Searching for Crowns in a Pile of Two by Fours / Zachary Kluckman -- Morning Blessing / Mark Fleisher -- Albuquerque, 2nd and Lead / Tina Carlson -- Late Night 66 / Anna C. Martinez -- Albuquerque Past, Present, and Future / Elaine Carson Montague -- Burque Neighbors / Rene Mullen -- The Sounds of Albuquerque's Heart / Jeff Sims -- Grandma's Last Cruise / Damien Flores -- Part Five: EKCO. EKCO 2018. Excerpt from "Burque O Burque: Atom and Eva," an EKCO Collaboration / Maiyah King, Valerie Martinez, Michelle Otero, Monica Sanchez -- EKCO 2015. Excerpt from "Anyway, We Live," an EKCO Collaboration / Valerie Martinez, Michelle Otero, Shelle VanEtten de Sanchez -- EKCO 2013. Excerpt from "A River Runs Through Us," an EKCO Collaboration / Jasmine Sena Cuffee, Jamie Figueroa, Valerie Martinez, Shelle VanEtten de Sanchez --

Part Six: Sky Kingdom. Sijo for the Albuquerque Seasons / Scott Wiggerman -- Ritual / Alissa Simon -- Japanese Garden / C. T. Holte -- Cottonwood / E. Griego-Montoya -- Limpia (Burque Daze) / Bill Nevins -- Ode to Tony Mares / Mary Oishi -- Mujer de Mestizaje / Manuel Gonzalez -- Bosque / Sheryl Guterl -- Country Story / Jeremy Garcia -- Galaxy Albuquerque / Mary Oishi -- On the Banks of the Rio Grande / Elsa Menendez -- Part Seven: Santo Tierra, Santo Sol. Watching Crow, Looking South Towards the Manzano Mountains / Joy Harjo -- La Luz de Albuquerque / Linda Yiannakis -- Fourteen Ways of Seeing Red Dragons Fly / Lenora Rain-Lee Good -- Burque / Adelio Lechuga-Kanapilly -- High Desert Blue (Bold and Fleeting) / PW Covington -- Internal Argument with a Fellow Outsider / Alaina Davis -- Conversation / Gregory L. (Goyo) Candela -- Wearing His Father's Dog Tags / Tina Carlson -- Duke's Iron Sprawl / Timothy Reece Nelson -- Santa Tierra, Santo Sol / Irene Blea -- Day's End in February / Mary Dudley -- Part Eight: Our Names Are Water, Our Names Are Mud. A Collaborative Poem--Our Collective Voice--with Lines from All the Poems in This Collection.

"Open-Hearted Horizon: An Albuquerque Poetry Anthology invites you into a poetic conversation. The anthology includes a wide range of Albuquerque-based poets and poems that are inspired--directly, associatively, obliquely--by Albuquerque, New Mexico, as a place and as a community. Anthologies commonly celebrate a multitude of voices. Because this one is place-based, it aims to draw you into a circle that deepens your sense of place and people, of contexts and cultures, whether you know Albuquerque or not. Because the Albuquerque poetry community is characterized by its support for individual writers and by a strong impulse toward creative collaboration, Open-Hearted Horizon features poems in multiple voices. In addition to poems by individual poets, this collection also features collaborative works, including those by the EKCO collective and one that features a line from every poem in the anthology. Overall, the collection invites you to experience Albuquerque in all its richness, diversity, and depth."--Back cover.

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