User:Joan logghe

Bio: Joan Logghe is Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico 2010-2012. She works at poetry and arts activism in community, off the academic grid in La Puebla, New Mexico. She and her husband, Michael, raised three children and have three grandchildren. Joan began a life in poetry by volunteering at her children’s school thirty years ago and has worked with children and youth as well as adults, ever since.

Joan Logghe was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1947. She attended high school at Ellis School and graduated from Tufts University in 1969 as Class Poet.

Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry Grants, A Mabel Dodge Luhan Internship, and a Barbara Deming/Money for Women grant. Her teaching life has included faculty at Ghost Ranch Conference Center in Abiquiu, NM since 1991, University of New Mexico-Los Alamos, Santa Fe Community College, Artworks, Santa Fe Girls’ School, CultureNet’s Poets-in-the-Schools, and Santa Clara Pueblo Day School. She taught poetry in Bratislava, Vienna, and Zagreb, Croatia in 2004.

Her books include What Makes a Woman Beautiful, Twenty Years in Bed with the Same Man (a finalist in Western States Book Award), Sofia, Rice, and The Singing Bowl from UNM Press. With Renée Gregorio, and Miriam Sagan she is a founder of Tres Chicas Books. The Singing Bowl from UNM press (2011) and Love & Death; Greatest Hits,Tres Chicas Books (2011) are her most recent books.

She serves on the board of New Mexico Literary Arts, and lives in a solar house she and her husband built themselves. She teaches writing workshops nationally and internationally. www.thepoemdifferent.blogspot.com