Tag: las vegas new mexico
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November 27, 2007 08:24 PM EST --
In the midst of dark, war-torn 1939, artist Marc Chagall feared his days were numbered. The Nazis marched toward Paris, toward the small enclave of artists and intellectuals housing the middle-aged Russian . . .
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January 03, 2007 11:09 PM EST --
Both my sons stared at me Saturday morning. I sat on my bed, surrounded by piles of product, padded envelopes, my heart determined to catch up with work. My arms couldn't meet my desire, shook from . . .
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March 30, 2007 10:18 AM EDT --
Hi everyone!
I just wanted to pass along a few links to some of my off-Gather stuff.
I have a story posted at The Nervous Breakdown about the summer I took Arts and Crafts camp.
If you'd like to . . .
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November 26, 2007 08:15 AM EST --
A man carrying a hunting rifle squints. He stands on the rim of a bowl-shaped depression, his mustache dripping with sweat. Heat rises from sparse desert scrub, from the splay of dust-splattered pickup . . .
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June 20, 2008 09:59 AM EDT --
One of the artists paints my garage wall.
Two years ago, taggers hit the side of my garage that faces one of my New Mexican town's alleys, hit it with white aerosol spray in the shape . . .
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November 26, 2007 09:22 AM EST --
"That seems like a lot of hard work."
A boy in wrinkled school uniform gave Louis Jencka a wary glance. Jencka, an eighth-grader at Rio Gallinas Public Charter School, leaned against a gnarled . . .
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June 08, 2008 09:34 PM EDT --
Three hundred years ago, the storm and thunder of bison swarmed the pinon-laced hills outside of Las Vegas, New Mexico. The land looked different then. Beaver claimed the Rio Gallinas in numbers much larger . . .
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November 11, 2008 09:46 AM EST --
If you can't pick who you want for President, you can always pick piñon.
An old woman squats close to the ground next to a short, squat pine. She wears a thick cabled sweater to protect . . .
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June 29, 2007 12:26 PM EDT --
Mipoesias, well-respected literary journal and publisher, is publishing a book of my stories this year! The book is as yet untitled, but will be comprised of true stories having to do with my tiny Las . . .
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August 17, 2007 11:33 PM EDT --
Vivian Vance and her sister owned the house I call my own. They lived in this simple cracked-stucco box on the edge of the Great Plains, where Mother Earth New Mexico gives birth to a flat-chested Oklahoman . . .
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October 13, 2008 10:41 AM EDT --
The road to San Augustin passes nothing, nothing but a pistol-pitted sign welcoming travelers to county road C-24, nothing but dry wind and green-gold prairie, the asphalt twisting in deference to property . . .
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May 24, 2007 11:36 AM EDT --
New Mexican Governor Bill Richardson made his formal presidential campaign announcement this week. He made the announcement in California, about which everyone knows everything, but Richardson is actually . . .
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