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).

Joan Logghe

Joan Logghe (opens in a new tab) was Poet Laureate of Santa Fe from 2010 to 2012. She works at poetry and arts activism in community, off the academic grid in La Puebla, New Mexico. Joan began a life in poetry by volunteering at her children’s school forty years ago and has worked with children and youth as well as adults, ever since. Awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry Grants, A Mabel Dodge Luhan Internship, and a Barbara Deming/Money for Women grant. Her teaching life has included Ghost Ranch Abiquiu, University of New Mexico-Los Alamos, Santa Fe Community College, Artworks, Santa Fe Girls’ School, CultureNet’s Poets-in-the-Schools, Santa Clara Pueblo Day School, and teaching workshops to the AIDS community. For twenty-one years, she served as Poet-in-Residence at Santa Fe Girls’ School. She is the president of New Mexico Literary Arts which aims to inspire & develop the imaginative use of language and to create opportunities for the integration of the literary arts with other art forms throughout New Mexico.

A flat-topped hill rises above a gently sloping landscape with scattered trees under a clear blue sky. [gen-ai]

Verses to an Institution

WHAT'S NOT LOST Something happens when there is an absence of foundation there is a direction chosen where heart, intent, and desire, meet         intuition—where preservation meets development meets community to set a precedent for instances in which the likes of        MOMA follow suit. Architecture and ancient character conversing as if they’re of two different tongues but translation isn’t lost altogether—       instead a romantic erosion set in motion a revival that was and remains inherently difficult.