New Mexico Mercury

Insight New Mexico - Don McIver

V.B. Price speaks with Don McIver - poet, producer and poetry curator for the New Mexico Mercury. They discuss political poetry and the evolution of the art form.

The Transcendent Epoch of New Mexico

A rare historical glimpse into the impact of the Americanization of New Mexico and the deeply moral and philosophical resistance to it are felt even today.

Book Review: Khaled Hosseini’s “And the Mountains Echoed”

Beautifully wrought, with rich dialogue and painterly evocation of the landscape, Khaled Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed  (2013) follows not only in the tradition of his own excellent work from the Kite Runner (2003) on, but in the literature about Afghanistan. The book follows in the grand tradition of Rabindranath Tagore’s Kabuliwala (1892) which  like this one, tells, the story of the diasporic Afghan, impoverished, travelling for work, separated from his own daughter and another he attempts to make his own. Both books tell of the unhappiness of late life reunions...

Caught Spying

El Machete

Paseo en El Paso, 1945

Pushing the dark blue baby carriage
Miriam strolls through the Plaza Central.
Olive toned hands firmly grasp
the warm metal handle.
Black hair gently caresses the red peonies
embroidered upon the collar
of her beige linen suit.
Engorged breasts strain the buttons
of the jacket.

The hot Texas spring
challenges this midwestern bride...

Jose Domingo Sandoval: A film by Natalie Brigance

The spiritual essence of place and people through a resolana conversation with the filmmaker's father at his home in his native village of Truchas, NM.

Kiet Siel: The Hidden Ruin

A voyage through a lesser known Anasazi ruin frozen in time.

Weekly Poetry: For Daniel Berrigan

become
as name:
              willows descending
or building another
of longevity
some call fast in

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a prison first
or lent’s regrets of carrying on –

Water’s Peace - Petra

Margaret Randall explores the ancient rock city of Petra and gleans lessons for modern New Mexico.

Magic and Realism in a Homemade Chihuahua Museum

A chance encounter opens a portal into an eclectic world of prehistory, Mexican rural history, and a vision of homegrown environmental sustainability.