I write to you from here

I began this project in December 2020 and write to you now from the hills of Cerrillos, New Mexico, where I live on 1.7 acres with one man, one dog, ravens, thrashers, mockingbirds and bluebirds and hummingbirds and doves, sparrows too, three or four different finch types, globemallow, sage brush, jackrabbits, cottontails, sometimes a stray pig I guess, a big red bull with a stern white face, two apple trees, locust everywhere and elm, lilac, at least one snake, turkey vultures, a million(?) spiders, crickets, cholla, prickly pear, paintbrush, unfortunately puncturevine, russian sage, sunflowers, yarrow, and at least a hundred living things whose name I don't yet know.

You'll hear from me usually Sunday mornings, once or twice a month.

Every issue includes at least one poem I love, maybe two or three, maybe one that I wrote. Some issues include recordings of poems too—three to five minute gentle poemcasts, best enjoyed with tea.

I greet you here with long open arms.
My arms are just so long, and open.
I hope you find something that feeds you.

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About Me

Kristin Lueke is a Chicana writer and author of the chapbooks here i show you a human heart (2025) and (in)different math (Dancing Girl Press, 2013). Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, as well as Best New Poets and Best of the Net. It appears in Sixth Finch, Wildness, HAD, Okay Donkey, Mizna, The Maine Review, Frozen Sea, Maudlin House, Heavy Feather Review, and elsewhere. She received the Morris W. Kroll Poetry Prize from Princeton University, where she earned an AB in English, and holds an MA from the University of Chicago.

Kristin is the co-founder and Strategic Director of Field of Practice, an award-winning, women-owned creative studio specializing in culturally resonant branding for mission-driven businesses. The studio’s work has been honored by the Webbys, Communication Arts, and the STA 100, and featured in Faculty Magazine. She lives in New Mexico with her husband, novelist Kyle Beachy.