READING | SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 | 2–3 PM | FREE
El Palacio Fall Issue Reading and Q&A
Join us for a reading panel and conversation about three featured articles in the fall issue of El Palacio magazine at FUSION | 708 on Sunday, September 28, at 2 PM.
Featured readings include:
David Correia’s article about the Gallup Coal Wars in 1933–35 that involved striking miners, Communist labor organizers, murder, kidnappings, deportations, and more!
Petra Salazar’s essay that pays homage to her hometown of Española on its centennial, including the annual pilgrimage to Chimayó, lowrider culture, and the culture of giving.
Enrique Lamadrid, José Rivera, and Levi Romero’s article about the molinitos (gristmills) of Northern New Mexico that helped to sustain village life in the Spanish Colonial period.
Following the readings, the editor of El Palacio, Emily Withnall, will facilitate a Q&A. Copies of the magazine and the contributors’ books will be available for sale.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
David Correia writes about New Mexico history, labor geography, and environmental politics. He is a professor in UNM’s Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and the author of six books, including Properties of Violence: Law and Land Grant Struggle in Northern New Mexico.
Petra Salazar is a poet, educator, and culture worker from the Española Valley. A former diesel mechanic turned community arts organizer, her debut poetry collection, Harsh Terrain, is forthcoming from FlowerSong Press.
José A. Rivera is Professor Emeritus of Community and Regional Planning at UNM. His research deals with comparative water institutions globally and mutual aid societies of the American Southwest. He is the author of Acequia Culture: Water, Land, and Community in the Southwest and other publications.
Levi Romero is Professor Emeritus in the Chicana and Chicano Studies department at UNM. He was selected as the Inaugural New Mexico State Poet Laureate, 2020-2023. He is the author of A Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works, among other publications.
Enrique R. Lamadrid is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Spanish at UNM and editor of the prizewinning Querencias Series at UNM Press. He is a commissioner of Álamos de los Gallegos Acequia Association in Albuquerque, and he coedited Water for the People: Acequia Heritage of New Mexico in a Global Context with Jose A. Rivera.
ABOUT EL PALACIO MAGAZINE
El Palacio magazine is the oldest museum magazine of its kind, first published in 1913 by the Museum of New Mexico. El Palacio (“the palace”) refers to the first home of the Museum of New Mexico. Now reorganized under the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), the quarterly magazine continues to cover the art, culture, and history of New Mexico and supports the exhibits, public programs, and scholarship of the department’s eight museums: the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, the Museum of International Folk Art , the National Hispanic Cultural Center, the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, the New Mexico History Museum, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, and the New Mexico Museum of Space History; its eight state historic sites: Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner, Coronado, Fort Selden, Fort Stanton, Jemez, Lincoln, Los Luceros, and Taylor-Mesilla; and its other divisions: New Mexico Arts, the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division, the New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies, and the New Mexico State Library.
In addition to supporting DCA’s divisions, the magazine showcases the rich artistic traditions of writing, photography, and illustration that make up the fabric of New Mexico.
El Palacio —the name endures. Where it once recognized the magazine's first home, the magazine itself has become a royal residence, a “house eminently splendid,” for the story that is New Mexico.