Write Until You Cry: A Jimmy Santiago Baca Workshop Anthology. Edited by Veronica C. Evans
In June of 2023, fresh and unleashed from America’s COVID crisis, a room full of excited poets gathered for the Annual Jimmy Santiago Baca Writer’s Retreat, held at the Albuquerque Museum. Besides the expected daily workshops, we were surprised to receive sessions on ecstatic dancing, hip-hop verses, gardening, native ceremonial movements, and an opportunity to learn a Buddhist chant. In his words, we were invited to "loosen up the subconscious enough to allow the ego to step aside for the writer/poet to write." And loosen up we did—Veronica C. Evans
In June of 2023, fresh and unleashed from America’s COVID crisis, a room full of excited poets gathered for the Annual Jimmy Santiago Baca Writer’s Retreat, held at the Albuquerque Museum. Besides the expected daily workshops, we were surprised to receive sessions on ecstatic dancing, hip-hop verses, gardening, native ceremonial movements, and an opportunity to learn a Buddhist chant. In his words, we were invited to "loosen up the subconscious enough to allow the ego to step aside for the writer/poet to write." And loosen up we did—Veronica C. Evans
In June of 2023, fresh and unleashed from America’s COVID crisis, a room full of excited poets gathered for the Annual Jimmy Santiago Baca Writer’s Retreat, held at the Albuquerque Museum. Besides the expected daily workshops, we were surprised to receive sessions on ecstatic dancing, hip-hop verses, gardening, native ceremonial movements, and an opportunity to learn a Buddhist chant. In his words, we were invited to "loosen up the subconscious enough to allow the ego to step aside for the writer/poet to write." And loosen up we did—Veronica C. Evans