Zachary Kluckman

Update about Fiction Submissions (PLEASE READ) Hello! Please be advised that accepted FICTION submissions are now being scheduled into 2026. That is quite a ways away, we know, but it also means that we’ve got enough great fiction scheduled for the rest of 2024 and ALL of 2025! We just want to mention this for anyone still waiting for decisions or submitting.

The faces behind the trees wither ……………With the radiance of will-o-the-wisps. To the uninitiated eye this blood ……………As thin as moonlight ribbons loss. For those who have lost more than life ……………There are rivers deeper than oceans Ascending these hills and hollows. ……………Bone is a dull bell the winter rings Into shapes of haunting, melodies ……………That compose your specific gravity. Returning limb for limb the weight ……………Of absent children. The pregnant womb Emptied by the callous moon.

Roughly two seconds after learning Santa Fe-born-and-raised poet, musician and punk legend Tommy Archuleta had been named the City of Santa Fe’s 2024 poet laureate, SFR reached out to request he judge the paper’s annual Spring Poetry Search—joining the ranks of previous judges such as Institute of American Indian Art Associate Professor and award-winning poet Anne Haven McDonnell; former city Poet Laureate Darryl Lorenzo Wellington and Levi Romero, New Mexico’s first state poet laureate.