an independent, not for profit, publishing agent focusing on supporting the working author and non-profit organizations. This is the place to find the greatest chapbooks from the best poets, and this was the first place to publish Manuel Gonzalez.

El Chante is a community space dedicated to art, culture, familia, and community based economic development. A place to promote New Mexico history. Our core values are to provide a space for the community and promote Chicanx, Indigenous, and New Mexico culture and community artists, as well as create a learning and teaching environment for the community

“Pass the gull-durn crumpets, pendejo,” I might utter if I were to speak with the multiple cultural influences in my life. My father’s Grapes of Wrath-paralleling parents led him to be raised by Okies in Southern California, and mother was born on U.S. soil to British parents and siblings. I took my first breath in Madrid, Spain, and ended up in Albuquerque at the age of two. I grew up in the South Valley, catching horned toads, walking my dog along the acequias, and being ever-vigilant at dusk, lest I fall prey to La Llorona.

I grew up with multi-ethnic influences in some of Albuquerque, New Mexico’s oldest neighborhoods, and am the son of an archaeologist. This background inspired a deep interest in history and anthropology, and after years of working in restaurants and construction, I went back to school, resulting in a B.A. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico in 2015, with a focus on New Mexico’s historical, physical, and cultural landscapes.

I have worked on oral history projects for the Bureau of Land Management and UNM’s Chicano Studies Department, written and photographed for the Albuquerque Journal, the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, and numerous other clients. My photos can be found in magazines, newspapers, calendars, t-shirts, and brochures, plus I have independently documented numerous people and places of historical and anthropological interest through both writing and photography.

I’m a food enthusiast, Depeche Mode fan, and a firm believer in the Oxford comma.

Want to know more? Read the expanded version on my blog page.

We are dedicated to providing coloring books, codices, poetry books, graphic novels, alternative herstories, theirstories, histories, currriculums for children and adults
that inspire ancestral memory and consciousness through a
chicano indigenous lens. We are rasquache, indigena, mestizo people
trying to re-member our ancestory. It is our belief that through
these meditative, healing coloring codex books you can begin to piece
together parts of you that are tied the earth.

Our hope is that you at whatever age and level of art can become inspired to create your own codex coloring books, coloring books, codices, poetry books, graphic novels, curriculum, alternative herstories, theirstories, histories for children and adults that we will begin to bring together different
parts of our indigenous memory.

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What is Burque Revolt?

• An umbrella organization that connects youth, college and adults using poetry in Albuquerque.

• A community that honors the stories/art/poetry of women, people of color, LGBTQ, youth and any and all intersections of those identities.

• A team of activists, outreach coordinators and poets looking to make change using the power of spoken word.

• A variety of open mic, workshops and poetry slam events around ABQ.