Characters in this debut collection of stories ponder ‘career mortality’ and existential despair — and dispatches from the trenches of adolescent incarceration. ‘American Wasteland’ By Alexander Shalom Joseph Owl Canyon Press (2021, 262 pp.) A slow, gnawing dread is...
“Resurrecting Bunny: A Wild Child’s Pilgrimage’ By Georgann Low (2021, 92 pp.) “I wait for another spring,” writes this seasoned artist, jazz musician and Colorado native. “But now is a time for wondering, being soft in my breath and asking for grace.” Transformation...
“The Cape Doctor” By E.J. Levy Little, Brown (2021, 337 pp.) “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’ making is in our hands and how much is forged by fate — the...
Phyllis Hotch (1928-2021) was born in New York City, raised a family and taught English in Massachusetts before following her muse and finding home in Taos, New Mexico in 1989. As Poetry Coordinator for Arts/Wayland, a creative arts center, she organized readings,...
SOMOS ANNOUNCES The 22nd Taos Storytelling Festival ~ October 9, 2021 Theme: Transformations For the past twenty-one years, SOMOS (The Society of the Muse of the Southwest) has hosted The Taos Storytelling Festival which has become an annual mecca for storytellers and...
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