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LAS LUMBRES DEL 2022 EN EL NORTE DE NUEVO MÉXICO

Photo of a wildfire burning tall trees behind a dirt lot and garage. The sky is filled with smoke and tinted yellow.

By Gabriel Meléndez
“My spirit shrank when I drove up to see a friend in El Monte Aplanado. All along the gravel road leading to the box canyon at end of flat expanse, I began to see greater destruction to properties, homes, and buildings.”

MANITO

Black and white photo portrait of Leonard Martinez, age 27

By Leeanna Teresa Martinez y Torres
“Manito: Examining and Deconstructing New Mexico’s Tri-Cultural Myth; ‘Patterns of Migration’

Mama’s easy, un-flinching and quick-to-respond reply to this unfamiliar term, word, name, was curious to me. Manito.”