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Joshua K. Concha is the current Poet Laureate of Taos, NM (2022-23). Most recently, his poetry appeared in the Ekphrastic Poetry Event organized by the SOMOS, Society of the Muse of the Southwest, and the Taos Arts Council (2019 & 2020). His work is also in the Winter 2016 issue of The Notebook: A Progressive Journal about Women and Girls with Rural and Small Town Roots and in the anthology 200 New Mexico Poems.
Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this blog post/article does not necessarily represent those of the New Mexico Humanities Council or the National Endowment for the Humanities.a
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Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this blog post/article does not necessarily represent those of the New Mexico Humanities Council or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
JOSHUA K. CONCHA
Joshua K. Concha is the current Poet Laureate of Taos, NM (2022-23). Most recently, his poetry appeared in the Ekphrastic Poetry Event organized by the SOMOS, Society of the Muse of the Southwest, and the Taos Arts Council (2019 & 2020). His work is also in the Winter 2016 issue of The Notebook: A Progressive Journal about Women and Girls with Rural and Small Town Roots and in the anthology 200 New Mexico Poems.