Where We Live
NEA Big Read  – Events and Reading Series

The 2025 Big Read promgrams took place March 1 – April 30, 2025. They included family activities, workshops, media, and book discussions centered on the theme, “Where We Live,” and Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude.

Featured writers

Jimmy Santiago Baca is an award-winning American poet and writer of Chicano descent.

While serving a five-year sentence in a maximum security prison, he learned to read and began to turn his life around, eventually emerging as a prolific artist of the spoken and written word. He is a winner of the prestigious International Award for his memoir, “A Place to Stand,” the story of which is now also a documentary by the same title.

Anna Martinez is a slam/performance/ competitive poet and civil rights attorney. She has held titles as ABQ Chicano/a City Slam Champ, XXX Haiku City Champ, and 2019 City Slam Champ for team Mindwell Slam. She is also on the board of directors for Burque Revolt Poetry Slam. She lives in Albuquerque.

Rachel Coventry lives in Galway. She holds a PhD in Heidegger’s poetics from the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her poems have appeared in various journals including The North, The Moth, Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers, Stand, Southword, The Irish Times, and The Shop.

The programming included a call for submissions for writing. You can find below the anthology that compiles Taos writers’ contributions. You can also read a printed copy at TCA (and at SOMOS and the Public Library shortly).