Open-hearted horizon an Albuquerque poetry anthology
edited by Valerie Martinez and Shelle VanEtten de Sanchez.
- Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press City of Albuquerque Department of Arts & Culture 2024
- xviii, 188 pages : illustration ; Paperback 23 cm.
- The Albuquerque poet laureate series .
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface: Poetry as a Pathway to Liberation / Introduction: A Conversation between the Editors / Prayer to the Heat / Las Madrecitas de Barelas / Nothing Was What it Pretended / When We Speak Gujarati / Matriz / The Anthropologist / A Race We Run / Empty Sky in October / Eclipse / Can't Stop / ABQ Manifesto / Tim Keller -- Valerie Martinez and Shelle VanEtten de Sanchez -- Tanesia R. Hale-Jones -- Maria L. Leyba -- Margaret Randall -- Anushah Jiwani -- Michelle Otero -- Anushah Jiwani -- Billy Babb -- Cal Reardon -- Susan Mitchell -- Valerie Martinez -- Hakim Bellamy -- Part One: The Names We Give These Spaces. Azucarero / Monarch / September Tomatoes / Unendangered Weeds / Unbridled / Swimming the Herd (How to Think Like a Cow) / I Walk Today Alone / The Sandias, 2008 / from "What's Not Atomic?" / To Be Alive in This City / In the Year of Our Peril / Pandemic Fatigue / prophesy on an Albuquerque day / Imagine Mars / Veterano Sanctuary / Hilltop / Hyder Park / Ditches / Almost Blue / La Luz / Chile Hearts / In Bernalillo, A Blessing / Misa / Levi Romero -- Gregory L. (Goyo) Candela -- Tanesia R. Hale-Jones -- Megan Baldrige -- Janet St. John -- Mary McCray -- Carolyn Fresquez -- Olivia Gatwood -- V. B. Price -- Jessica Helen Lopez -- Sylvia Ramos Cruz -- Jenna L. Norton -- Mary Oishi -- Mary McCray -- Carlos Contreras -- Tani Arness -- Feroza Jussawalla -- Tani Arness -- Don McIver -- Margaret Randall -- Crystal Coriz -- Jules Nyquist -- Michelle Otero -- Part Two: Never Giving Up Our Roots. Part Three: Paths Cut Through the Dry Earth. New Mexico Department of Tourism (A Haiku) / Out West / When the River Liked to Party / from "The Sandias, Spring 1972" / Central Avenue / In a House on Candelaria Road / All Eyeteeth out of the Cocoon / Searching for Crowns in a Pile of Two by Fours / Morning Blessing / Albuquerque, 2nd and Lead / Late Night 66 / Albuquerque Past, Present, and Future / Burque Neighbors / The Sounds of Albuquerque's Heart / Grandma's Last Cruise / EKCO 2018. Excerpt from "Burque O Burque: Atom and Eva," an EKCO Collaboration / EKCO 2015. Excerpt from "Anyway, We Live," an EKCO Collaboration / EKCO 2013. Excerpt from "A River Runs Through Us," an EKCO Collaboration / Hakim Bellamy -- Peter Pachak-Robie -- Megan Baldrige -- R. Naso -- Bill O'Neill -- Ryan M. Stark -- Susan Mitchell -- Zachary Kluckman -- Mark Fleisher -- Tina Carlson -- Anna C. Martinez -- Elaine Carson Montague -- Rene Mullen -- Jeff Sims -- Damien Flores -- Maiyah King, Valerie Martinez, Michelle Otero, Monica Sanchez -- Valerie Martinez, Michelle Otero, Shelle VanEtten de Sanchez -- Jasmine Sena Cuffee, Jamie Figueroa, Valerie Martinez, Shelle VanEtten de Sanchez -- Part Four: Strange Transformations. Part Five: EKCO. Sijo for the Albuquerque Seasons / Ritual / Japanese Garden / Cottonwood / Limpia (Burque Daze) / Ode to Tony Mares / Mujer de Mestizaje / Bosque / Country Story / Galaxy Albuquerque / On the Banks of the Rio Grande / Watching Crow, Looking South Towards the Manzano Mountains / La Luz de Albuquerque / Fourteen Ways of Seeing Red Dragons Fly / Burque / High Desert Blue (Bold and Fleeting) / Internal Argument with a Fellow Outsider / Conversation / Wearing His Father's Dog Tags / Duke's Iron Sprawl / Santa Tierra, Santo Sol / Day's End in February / A Collaborative Poem--Our Collective Voice--with Lines from All the Poems in This Collection. Scott Wiggerman -- Alissa Simon -- C. T. Holte -- E. Griego-Montoya -- Bill Nevins -- Mary Oishi -- Manuel Gonzalez -- Sheryl Guterl -- Jeremy Garcia -- Mary Oishi -- Elsa Menendez -- Joy Harjo -- Linda Yiannakis -- Lenora Rain-Lee Good -- Adelio Lechuga-Kanapilly -- PW Covington -- Alaina Davis -- Gregory L. (Goyo) Candela -- Tina Carlson -- Timothy Reece Nelson -- Irene Blea -- Mary Dudley -- Part Six: Sky Kingdom. Part Seven: Santo Tierra, Santo Sol. Part Eight: Our Names Are Water, Our Names Are Mud.
"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.