2023-24 Grant Recipients
Elsewhere Studios
Native American Creative Residency
Elsewhere Studios mission is to provide a unique and fertile landscape that nurtures the creative process and acts as a bridge between local and global communities. They facilitate focused time and space for artists in order to expand and transcend to new levels in their work, ideas, and lives. The Foundation supports the Elsewhere Studios Artist Residency for a Native American poet during the Fall of 2021. Paonia’s location in the North Fork Valley was once inhabited by the Ute people, and after being forced out of their land in the late 1800s, the majority of the Utes live on reservation land in southwestern Colorado. In order to support the work of contemporary Native American artists, especially regional Ute artists, as well as to honor those who lived here before us, Elsewhere Studios has initiated this funded Native American residency opportunity.
New Mexico School of the Arts
The Witter Bynner Poetry Series at NMSA
The Foundation supports a poetry series that will bring poets to the School's Creative Writing and Literature Program throughout the academic year for readings and master classes. The program will be a fully curated poetry series that will benefit the entire NMSA student body as it will be a cross disciplinary course. In addition, NMSA will create the Witter Bynner Poetry library within their larger library.
Pecos High School
Identity and Empathy in Poetry
This poet-in-schools program, led by Joanne Dwyer, will expand the students' experience with the art of poetry. The poems that will be brought into the classroom will be contemporary American poems, with an emphasis on poems that are relatable to the lives of teenagers. Poems about one's relationship with family, culture, love, heartbreak, identity racism and hope.
Santa Fe Girls School
Poetry Workshops
The Foundation funds a Poet-in-Residence program at the Santa Fe Girl’s School. The school and its students have published 18 volumes of poetry and artwork since the program was introduced in 2000. Poetry has the ability to empower the young women in the program and help them to find their voices at a time when social pressure is at its peak.
Manzano Mountain Art Council
Youth, Art, Music & Culture Outreach Project
The Manzano Mountain Art Council (MMAC) has served its community for over 20 years with consistent general arts, culture and education advocacy. The Youth, Art, Music & Culture Outreach Project strives to offer a safe, welcoming environment where youth are exposed to a variety of artistic mediums. MMAC has incorporated poetry writing workshops and spoken word performances into their programming.
Poetry Pollinators
Developing the Poetry Audience
This project continues support of the established native bee pollinator house along the Santa Fe River. This dynamic public eco-poetry project will continue to engage the talent of local poets and artists for educational purposes and for the benefit of our native ecosystem.
Pocomoke High School
School Broadside Press
The Foundation will support the school's mission of expanding poetry’s audience at the secondary and community level at Pocomoke High School, a title one, small rural school on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The school will be bringing writers into the classroom for workshops and seminars, allowing students and teachers the opportunity to explore, read, and write poetry.
YouthWorks
Overcoming Adversity Through Art
This arts-integrated writing workshop for Santa Fe high school students will bring together a world-renowned poet and a prominent visual artist who each embrace the transformative forces of poetry and art in maximum security prison. The workshop will involve a cross-section of Santa Fe’s youth, uniting teenagers from all parts of the city to write poetry in response to art and to take part in a co-creative engagement process.
Gavialidae Second Issue
Gavialidae is a print literary periodical published annually. It includes poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. The Foundation will support poetry in the second issue of the publication.
Archipelago Books
The Foundation will fund the acquisition, translation and production of Tomasz Różycki’s To the Letter, translated from Polish by Mira Rosenthal. Różycki’s brilliant linked poems push back against the pressures of authoritarianism rising across eastern Europe and that continue to mount worldwide. These nuanced poems hinge on intimacy between people as our redemptive power; they explore "the texture of love.”
White Pine Press
Anthology of Contemporary Sami Poetry
The Foundation will support the translation of Red Rain on a Spring Mountain: The Complete Poems of Ho Nansorhon, translated by Ian Haight and Tae-young Ho and Returning Home: The poetry of Tao Yuan-ming translated by Dan Veach.
Northern Arizona Book Festival
The Foundation's support aids in the expansion of the scope and purpose of the Festival's Indigenous Writers’ Symposium. The Symposium brings Native speakers to present in both English and Indigenous languages and collaborates with Indigenous partners to put on Indigenous-centric programming that addresses critical debates around Indigenous poetics, including cultural literacy, Native sovereignty, how Native traditional crafts intersect with the discourses in contemporary arts, decolonial theory, applied Indigenous studies, and language preservation efforts.
Sundress Publications
Sundress Publications is a literary press collective entirely volunteer-run which publishes chapbooks and full-length works in both print and digital formats, and hosts a variety of online journals. The Foundation will be supporting one of their Reading Series this year.
Teatro Paraguas
Teatro Paraguas stages contemporary award-winning Latinx plays in English and bilingual productions of Hispanic/Latinx poetry and classic cuentos (folk-tales), while promoting children's theatre, producing the works of New Mexico playwrights, and celebrating the history, richness and diversity of New Mexico's many cultures and artistic talent. The Foundation will be supporting the play Mariana Pineda this season.
Randall Davey Audubon Center
The Foundation supports the program Wild Words, which celebrates poetry at the Audubon Southwest's wildlife sanctuary. This education program provides hands-on, engaging programming to public school students throughout the school year.
Santa Fe International Literary Festival
The Santa Fe International Literary Festival connects writers, readers, and thinkers—from around the world and close to home—in the celebration of words and story. The Foundation will be supporting their Young Writers and Readers programming at the 2024 festival.
