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‘Murder at Sleeping Tiger’By C.R. KoonsCamel Press (2022, 262 pp.)An insider’s knowledge of the shenanigans that go on within the Zen Buddhist…
The Taos Writers Conference, sponsored by Taos’ literary organization SOMOS, is not only one of the most affordable writing conferences in th…
Mankiller Poems:The Lost Poetry of Wilma MankillerBy Wilma MankillerPulley Press (2022, 63pp.)“I dream into existence a universeWithout hatred…
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“In the magnificent fierce morning of New Mexico one sprang awake,” this British author wrote of his first visit to Taos on September 11, 1922…
Taos Milagro Rotary has had 15 Little Free Libraries (LFLs) throughout the Taos and Taos County for the last five years. The mission of the LF…
“La Tormenta de Taos,” a children’s storybook and play, is a powerful collaborative project conceived, written and illustrated by Taos Municip…
‘I Got Mine: Confessions of a Midlist Writer’By John NicholsHigh Road Books (2022, 269 pp.)Live poor and maintain integrity was this writer’s …
This Saturday (June 18) at 4 p.m., there is a free reading during the celebratory month of LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, quee…
Taos writer Sandra Richardson is hosting a book-signing and reading of “Splinters” on Sunday (June 19) from 3 to 5 p.m. at Wengert Patio garde…
Young local artist selected for Taos is Art, banner campaignEighteen-year-old, Hailey Chanler who was born and raised in Taos, graduated with …
The Teachers’ RoomBy Lydia StrykBy Bywater Books (2022, 290 pp.)Karen Murphy’s initiation into “the life of a female homophile,” as she calls …
‘Pura Puta:A Poetic Memoir’By Anna C. MartínezCasa Urraca Press (2022, 233 pp.)Take-no-prisoners is Martínez’s approach in her raw, angry, hon…
‘Bitter Water’By Charlene DelaunayWind River Publishing (2022, 191 pp.)In her introduction to this “memoir of discrimination in Indian Country…
‘A Place to Land’By Dru PhilippouThreadleaf Press (2022, 79 pp.)Where do we come from, where do we end up? And why do we choose to inhabit the…
New prose works take on the pandemic — and the rarefied world of a women’s studies program
Film Prize Jr New Mexico, the Taos-based statewide youth film education and festival initiative is excited to announce our festival April 23-2…
‘On Beauty’Photographs by Lenny Foster, Poems by J.M. WhiteAnomolaic Press (2021, 112 pp.)“My task is to be aware, to humbly accept whatever c…
The melancholy narrator of this journal has returned to his erstwhile home in Arroyo Hondo in winter 2003 after a suicide attempt in Mexico. H…
Characters in this debut collection of stories ponder ‘career mortality’ and existential despair — and dispatches from the trenches of adolesc…
A new documentary, Far West – The Hidden History, will be screening at the Taos Center of the Arts (133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte) on Saturday (M…
What we have here is a writer with too much time on his hands. Fantasy tales involving a friend of Dorian Gray who discovers at last how the f…
Turquoise functions like gold in this contemporary mystery set in the fictitious Tulona Pueblo in northern New Mexico. As Hernán Cortés is quo…
‘Resurrecting Bunny:A Wild Child’s Pilgrimage’By Georgann Low(2021, 92 pp.)“I wait for another spring,” writes this seasoned artist, jazz musi…
At a time when New Mexicans — before they were incorporated into the United States as such — were not sure where to throw their allegiance, ne…
Spoofing on his father’s “goofy Irishness” takes a serious turn in this 10-round limerick lament aimed at something like a Father Confessor — …
‘Seeing Through the Eyes of Others’ By Andrea M. Heckman Stone Corral Press (2021) “The best photo is the one taken when the camera seemingly …
“What makes a man, a life? How much is name and parentage, education or the accident of birth? How much is choice? How much of our lives’ maki…
As the pandemic has lingered on, forcing adaptations for almost all facets of life, Taos has begun to see its fair share of food carts pop up. What has become a phenomenon in nearly all parts of the …
The commercial property at 210 Paseo del Pueblo Sur has seen its fair share of turnover in the past decade. First, a Chinese restaurant set up shop in the space. Then a Thai restaurant. Briefly it …
