A new review devoted exclusively to poetry, Malpaís, Spanish for badlands, has just appeared at Placitas, New Mexico. It can be obtained from its editor, Gary Brower, P.O. Box 339, Placitas, NM 87043.

The inaugural issue includes, among many poems, these verses from Keneth P. Gurney´s "Before Going Home:"

There is a circle of ash trees

where you go to lighgt fires,

sing songs that call spirits,

elementals, more crows

than I can count.

Horses

Artists in Placitas create beauty from nothing.
These horses who have nothing
but beauty of body their ancestors gave them,
create when they run,
a changing dapple of sun
on their shiny skin.

Gabriela Mistral: A Poet to Keep in Mind

Poetry Foundation has the following article on Gabriela Mistral

  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=80901