2025-26 Grant Recipients
Chatter
Chatter's 2025-2026 Season
The Foundation supports Chatter's Sunday programming which features spoken word poetry as well as music.
Terrain Publishing
Portuguese Translation of Into the Hush
The Foundation will support the Portuguese translation of Arthur Sze's Into the Hush.
516 Arts
Literary Arts Series
The Foundation supports a year-long arts series designed to highlight and celebrate the rich cultural narratives of New Mexico with a focus on strategically undervalued communities. The series will include readings, workshops, and visual arts collaborations.
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Poetry in the Galleries
The Foundation will support the museum's free, year-long series featuring women poets who live and work in New Mexico. The program will take place in the public gallery of the museum.
The Outdoor Academy
Sense of Place and Sense of Self
The Outdoor Academy provides experiential education for young people, promoting the natural world and the betterment of human character. The Foundation will support a poet-in-residence workshop for students and faculty to aid in the ability to enhance their storytelling.
Copper Canyon Press
Poetry Translation
The Foundation is supporting two translations by the press: the english translations of You Must Live from Arabic by TayseerAbu Odeh and Sherah Bloor and an english translation of Study of Sorrow, a collection of Song Dynasty poetry translated by Shangyang Fang.
Gavialidae
Gavialidae Fourth Issue
Gavialidae is a print literary periodical published annually. It includes poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. The Foundation will support poetry in the fourth issue of the publication.
Sundress Publications
Poets in Pajamas
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 their Poets in Pajamas program, their first free, virtual reading series.
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.
Santa Fe Girls School
Poetry Workshops
The Foundation funds a Poet-in-Residence program at the Santa Fe Girls School. The school is celebrating 26 years of the program, which 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.
ArtWorks
Poetry in Schools
Artworks is a program of Partners in Education Foundation for the Santa Fe Public Schools. Since 2013, Artworks has reached over 16,000 students and 400 teachers in 16 different local public schools. During the Poetry Experience, students attend readings by established poets and create their own poems that are meaningful to them. The readings and original poems by the students are related to a specific theme. Many of the students' poems are included in a published anthology.
Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe
Poetry Series
The CCA free Poetry Series will showcase the work of diverse local authors. CCA will connect their audience of more than 75,000 people a year with poets and poetry showcased in the cinema and gallery. They will also host poetry workshops, poetry critiques and pop-up events throughout the 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 Encantado: The Poetry of New Mexico this season.
New Mexico School for 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.
The Exodus Ensemble
Cyrano
The Exodus Ensemble is a trailblazing immersive theater company. Building on their reputation for transforming canonical texts into contemporary, high-octane theatrical events, they are presenting a groundbreaking interpretation of Cyrano. The Foundation is providing support for the development of the project and rehearsal of the production.
White Pine Press
New & Selected Poems of Kristin Dimitrova
The Foundation will support the translation of Bulgarian poet Kristin Dimitorova's New & Selected Poems by Tom Philips.
VOX Press
Prison Writes Initiative
The Prison Writes Initiative is Mississippi’s only liberal arts based educational program for inmates in 13 prisons across the state. Their programs have served all sectors of the Mississippi inmate population: men, women, youth, the elderly and the disabled. After initial support of Poetry Workshops in seven facilities in the Mississippi Delta last year, this year the Foundation will increase it's support to include programming on Death Row and adjacent long-term segregation units at Parchman Farm, Mississippi's largest prison.
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 2026 festival.
The Society of the Muse of the Southwest (SOMOS)
Taos Poet Laureate Program
The Society of the Muse of the Southwest (SOMOS) supports and nurtures the literary arts, both oral and written, honoring cultural diversity in the Southwest. SOMOS will run a Poetry with Youth program with funding from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry.
