Down to Earth By Kate Nelson So much that could have gone wrong in 1865 at Fort Selden Military Reserve somehow didn’t. [...]
Soft Launch By Emily Withnall It is fitting that this issue of El Palacio Magazine is filled with so much dirt—from [...]
Apple Glow BY BRANDON BROWN In late September, Tira Howard and I chased the light around Los Luceros Historic Site. Tira [...]
Celestial Petroglyphs and Chimpanzees in Space By Cathy Harper and Michael Shinabery More than twenty years later, the Space Trail continues to evolve as [...]
Cowboy Boots and Cow Pies, Clay and a Soup Spoon: By Maurice M. Dixon, Jr. In the spring of 1974, while firing some newly crafted clay vessels, an incident [...]
Sacred Geographies Of Northern New Mexico By Matthew J. MartinezPhotography by Jim O’Donnell To us, these petroglyphs are not the remnants of some [...]
No Untroubled Worlds: by JenniferLevin Gustave Baumann is best known for color woodcuts depicting Southwestern [...]
An American Pilgrimage: By Scott Robinson The North Road has been on my backpacking bucket list for years. Only one person, [...]
The Poetry of Belonging In a collaboration with the New Mexico State Library’s Poetry Center, inaugural New Mexico Poet Laureate [...]
Gallup to Guam By Mark J. Crawford Although new to America and often struggling to find work, Italian immigrants Joe and [...]
The Accidental Archivist By Kate Nelson MY INTRODUCTION to New Mexico Magazine’s archive in 2013 elicited my inner Bette Davis. Led [...]
A Flower is More Than a Flower By C.L. Kieffer When you walk the Los Luceros Historic Site property, the apple orchard is impossible to [...]
A Blinding Light By Andrew Wice With a fireball brighter than the New Mexican sun, matter flashed into energy at 5:29 a.m. on [...]
A New Frame for New Mexican Art BY RAY MARK RINALDI WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR A PIECE OF ART TO BE NEW MEXICAN? Does it have to be created in the [...]
Adobe Vistas By Carlyn Stewart and C. I. Kieffer Photographs by Carlyn Stewart On a beautiful fall day in Northern New [...]