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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. On the front cover of Albuquerque slam poet Manuel González’s new book are three ways that the Duke City is identified.
One is in the title – “Duende de Burque.” Burque is a shortened, colloquial Spanish version of the city’s name.
At 3 p.m. today Manuel González gives a virtual reading from “Duende de Burque” and is in conversation with Valerie Martinez, director of history and literary arts at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. To register for the Zoom event go to bkwrks.com/burque.
The duende in the book’s title González defined as “the magic that exists in each moment.”
NHCC Receives $200K Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant
NHCC News:
ALBUQUERQUE The National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) Art Museum and Visual Arts program has been awarded a $200,000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Art Museum Futures Fund grant.
This generous gift will be used for the hiring of new positions to bolster the NHCC’s technological infrastructure, public engagement and bilingual arts education.
“We are so excited and grateful. Our request was based on critical needs at this moment in history and the ability to sustain our commitment to our communities in the next years,” said Tey Marianna Nunn, director of the Art Museum and Visual Arts Program at the NHCC. “With the support of the Mellon Foundation, we will be able to actively fulfill our mission to showcase the artworks of diverse Latinx artists, center meaningful community representation, hold space for untold stories, and challenge exclusionary discourse about the role of artists of color in American art
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New Mexico Seeks Pot Legalization Amid Discord On Oversight - By Morgan Lee Associated Press
Several proposals to legalize cannabis are competing for support in the New Mexico state Senate with three weeks left to send a bill to the governor.
There s widespread support among lawmakers for creating a taxed and regulated market for recreational sales.
Efforts to legalize cannabis took center stage Saturday as a Senate panel grappled with how the state might effectively stamp out illicit pot, prevent child access and foster a competitive marketplace and job growth. The committee aims to produce a compromise bill with broad support within a week.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. One reason Michelle Otero chose “Bosque” as the title for her debut poetry collection was the “Walking With Poets” project she organized when she was Albuquerque Poet Laureate.
“I’d invite a local poet to co-host a walk in the bosque. They’d pick a trail and a poet whose work they want to celebrate. We’d stop along the walk to hear a poem and write,” Otero said in an email.
Michelle Otero
Those walks were open to the public. Usually, a dozen or more people attended. Some poems in Otero’s recently published collection started as prompts from those monthly walks. “The bosque invites you to pay attention. Poetry does the same thing. So there’s a natural connection,” she said.