Contributors

For over a century, El Palacio has been a forum for voices exploring New Mexico’s art, archaeology, history, and landscape. Explore the writers, photographers, historians, and scientists whose perspectives have defined the magazine’s pages—past and present.

Arthur Sze

Arthur Sze is the current U.S. Poet Laureate. Sze is a poet, translator, and editor. He is the author of twelve books, including Into the Hush, Sight Lines, and others. Sze’s poems have been translated into fifteen languages, and he is the recipient of the National Book Award among many other honors. He lives in Santa Fe.

Deborah Jackson Taffa

Deborah Jackson Taffa is a citizen of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo. Her memoir Whiskey Tender was a 2024 National Book Award Finalist and was longlisted for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Taffa serves as the director of the MFA in creative writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Cara Romero

Cara Romero is an award-winning contemporary fine art photographer. An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Romero’s expansive oeuvre has been informed by formal training in film, digital, fine art, and commercial photography. She maintains a studio in Santa Fe, regularly participates in Native American art fairs, and was featured in PBS’ Craft in America (2019).

Elizabeth Jacobson

Elizabeth Jacobson (opens in a new tab) is a former poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is the author, most recently, of Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air (free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2019) which won the New Measure Poetry Prize selected by Marianne Boruch, and the 2019 New Mexico–Arizona Book Award for both New Mexico Poetry and Best New Mexico Book. She is the reviews editor for the online literary journal Terrain.org and teaches poetry workshops regularly in the Santa Fe community.

A green-leaved tree stands behind a tall wooden picket fence on a grassy area under a clear blue sky. [gen-ai]

Summer 2020 Poetry Selections: Selected Poems by Elizabeth Jacobson

By Elizabeth Jacobson Curator of Insects I started asking questions about how human bodies held together. Already I was a certain age,  and not seeing any usual patterns. My mind had become fuzzier, mirroring the now fuzzier vision of my eyes. I read about hymenoptera vision,  how paper wasps and honeybees can remember the characteristics of a human face. And since a dragonfly had remembered me, I knew that this is true for them as well.

An older man with white hair smiles at the camera, wearing a light plaid shirt and a turquoise bolo tie. [gen-ai]

Poetry Lives

By Elizabeth Jacobson At 92, Victor di Suvero is full of vitality, and his mind is swift. I had the pleasure of visiting with him recently in his cozy book-filled apartment at Brookdale, an assisted living facility in Santa Fe, with a view from the portico that opens onto a tree-filled courtyard. His family’s story is a fortunate one. Di Suvero’s father was a Sephardic Jew whose family converted to Catholicism during the Spanish Inquisition, but still maintained the knowledge of their Jewish ancestry.