2021-22 Grant Recipients
The Paris Review
Poetry Audiograms
This program will create and share a series of audiograms featuring poems published in The Paris Review. A relatively new social media format, the audiogram, combines a two to three-minute audio track, an image, and a soundwave. Audiograms can provide rich audiovisual experiences of poetry to a diverse audience across the country and around the world, including those who may lack access to live poetry readings. They aim to create approximately five audiograms per print issue over the course of the year for a total of twenty, each one featuring the voice of a Review contributor reading their own poem.
Poetry Pollinators
Developing the Poetry Audience
This project will establish one to four permanent native bee pollinator houses along the Santa Fe River. Each bee house will integrate a panel for one poem that will be changed out seasonally and a panel for educational/project information. The permanently installed bee houses will be commissioned from local artists in a juried selection process. This dynamic public eco-poetry project will engage the talent of local poets and artists for educational purposes and for the benefit of our native ecosystem.
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.
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.
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.
Copper Canyon Press
Poetry Translation
The Foundation supports the translation of Fernando Valverede’s América by Carolyn Forché, which delivers an outsider’s view of a troubled nation. His insightful perspective is informed by his ten years of experience as a journalist for the Madrid newspaper El País . Forché’s translation will make this timely examination of contemporary American culture available to English readers eager to deepen their appreciation of these trying times.
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.
Northern Arizona University Foundation
Indigenous American Poetry Writers Series
Northern Arizona University looks to honor the generations of indigenous people that have lived for millennia in the place that the school sits by recognizing the contemporary work they do and supporting art and attentiveness to place through poetry. NAU will invite Native American poets to read at NAU in several of their advanced programs. This program will enhance and continue the tradition of NAU's creative writing program working to support Indigenous American students.
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.
Warehouse 508
ABQ Unidos Slam Poetry Project
ABQ Unidos Slam Poetry Project sends poets from the Albuquerque poetry scene into schools and community centers to teach young people how to express their feelings, emotions, beliefs and stories using the art of writing poetry and the spoken word. The Foundation funds poets in the in-school program from September through April. In addition, the Foundation is supporting a workshop for youth to compete in the Green Chile Invitational Youth Poetry Slam in Albuquerque and a team to compete in the National Brave New Voices competition.
White Pine Press
Anthology of Contemporary Sami Poetry
This project will support the translation and editing of an anthology of Sami poetry entitled Underfoot. There is currently no anthology of this kind in English.
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.
