
An Interview with Nell Johnson
"I love the intimacy of reading about a place you know and can visualize. It’s naturally interactive."
Celebrating poetry of place and poets who call New Mexico home.
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"I love the intimacy of reading about a place you know and can visualize. It’s naturally interactive."

"Good writing must embody the intersections between place and experience."

Place-based poetry, which sometimes masquerades as eco-poetry or regional poetry, serves as a bridge between the reader, the natural world, and the unique cultural landscape of a specific region.

"Poetry is fruitcake: dense, intense, to be taken in smaller slices."

Join us this Friday (4/28) in ABQ at Fusion Theatre and in SF at the Railyards, 8:30pm, for Project Interchange!

A Public Art Project with UNM Students

Artwork of a place values locales, knowing “who you are by knowing where you are” as the poet Wendell Berry once wrote.