July 15, 2020 @ 6:00-7:00
Collected Works Bookstore (via Zoom). Anne Valley-Fox
and Tom Ireland will launch their new book of interpersonal essays, The Household Muse, with a reading and Q & A.
Books
The Household Muse
Tres Chicas Books, 2020
(140 pages, $16.00)
Nightfall
Red Mountain Press, 2016
(70 pages, $18.95)
How Shadows are Bundled
University of New Mexico Press, 2009
(126 pages, $21.95)
Point of No Return
La Alameda Press, 2005
(113 pages, $14.00)
Sending the Body Out
Zephyr Press, 1986
(45 pages, $3.95)
Your Mythic Journey
co-author Sam Keen
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam
(126 pages, $21.95)
Lost Treasures & Old Mines: A New Mexico Federal Writers’ Project Book
compiled & edited by
Anne Valley-Fox and Ann Lacy
Sunstone Press, 2011
(268 pages, $26.95)
Outlaws & Desperados: A New Mexico Federal Writers’ Project Book
compiled & edited by
Anne Valley-Fox and Ann Lacy
Sunstone Press, 2008
(481 pages, $21.95)
Frontier Stories: A New Mexico Federal Writers’ Project Book
compiled & edited by
Anne Valley-Fox and Ann Lacy
Sunstone Press, 2010
(328 pages, $28.95)
Stories from Hispano New Mexico: A New Mexico Federal Writers’ Project Book
compiled & edited by
Anne Valley-Fox and Ann Lacy
Sunstone Press, 2012
(335 pages, $28.95)
Cowboys, Ranching & Cattle Trails: A New Mexico Federal Writers’ Project Book
compiled & edited by
Anne Valley-Fox and Ann Lacy
Sunstone Press, 2013
(383 pages, $29.95)
Other Books
Work included in the following anthologies:
Generations: A Centenary of American Poets (1919-2019)
Thomas Rain Crowe, Editor, New Native Press, 2015
Nuova Antologia de Poesia Americana
a cura di Alessandra Bava, Edizioni Ensemble, Rome, 2015
POEM: Poets on (an) Exchange Mission
Fish Drum, Inc. and Double Change, 2009
We Came to Santa Fe: Pennywhistle Press Anthology
Pennywhistle Press, 2009
Baby Beat Generation
Traduction, sélection et introduction by Mathias de Breyne
La Main Courante, France, 2005
In Company: An Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960
University of New Mexico Press, 2004
New Mexico Poetry Renaissance
Red Crane Books, 1994
Readings & Events
September 14, 2019 @ 2pm
op. cit. books
157 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM
Poetry reading with Kaylock Sellers
August 4, 2018 @ 6:00-9:00 p.m.
The Beat Museum
540 Broadway, San Francisco, California
Book launch / Group reading
March 13, 2018 @ 2:00 p.m.
Santa Fe County Commissioners Chambers
AVF will read her poem “Border Crossings”
(first prize, Santa Fe New Mexican Writing Contest, December, 2017)
February, 2017
“To Love India” wins 2017 William Matthews Poetry Prize
from Ashville Poetry Review, 2nd place
(Reading in Asheville, North Carolina, to be announced)
Sunday, June 11, 2017 @ 11:00 a.m.
Poetry reading to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Red Mountain Press, hosted by Journey Santa Fe.
Collected Works Bookstore
202 Galisteo Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Friday, May 19, 2017
Anne’s long poem “Because the Road Rises to Meet Their Feet” is a winner of the 2017 Mark Fischer Poetry Prize and will be featured at the Telluride Arts Festival.
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.
Anne Valley-Fox reads poems to Santa Fe County Commissioners
102 Grant Avenue (2nd floor), Santa Fe, NM
Saturday, April 29, 2017 @ 9:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Anne Valley-Fox on Publisher’s Panel with Susan Gardner of Red Mountain Press
New Mexico Poetry Society Annual Convention
Christian Church of Albuquerque, ABQ, NM
Sunday, December 4, 2016 @ 3:00 p.m.
Anne Valley-Fox reads from Nightfall
Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo Street, Santa Fe, NM
Author Statement
I write from the body. A poem is a physical thing: it breathes, it’s made of rhythm and sound and occupies a spatial dimension. A poem first breaks through consciousness as a vibration, which is why it is sensed long before (if ever) it’s comprehended.
A poet makes everything up, including one’s job description. My job: to retrieve rejected or edgy bits of inner material and put them together in ways that illuminate and provoke. My poems seek connections, complications, and small astonishments.
At times I say to myself that the world has no use for so much contemporary poetry—titles lined up on shelves (and now cyberspace) like so many wallflowers waiting to be plucked. But excess of songbooks and songbirds is hardly our problem. I wish for the world a chaotic abundance of poets, artists, performers, healers, magicians, dreamers and visionaries to counterbalance the steely force of prisons, governments, guns.
The words in a spirited poem want to shape themselves in our mouths and be sounded. This is sometimes enough. As the Greek poet Sappho wrote in the 7th century B.C., “Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.”