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Jimmy Santiago Baca to Read at Leonardo Release Party

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By Hilary Broman

Senior Staff Reporter

As part of the CNM library authors event and the Leonardo release party, award winning poet, Jimmy Santiago Baca is scheduled to share his work.

The event will be held on April 19th from 6-8pm at the main campus library.

Many of our students read his work in their English, composition, and poetry courses, said Rebecca Aronson, English instructor.

“He is a local and national celebrity,” she said.

Aronson said that Baca is a role model and even a hero to many CNM students, faculty and staff.

“He is just such an amazing writer and he is such a force of a person,” she said, “His life experience is so compelling and I think a lot of people connect to his struggles and his triumphs.”

After Baca shares his work there will be time for questions and answers from the audience as well as a book signing.

Baca will bring books to sell, Aronson said.

Leonardo, CNM’s literary magazine, will be releasing their 2017 issue.

Four students who were published in the magazine are scheduled to share their work prior to Jimmy Santiago Baca.

The CNM library authors event is an annual event where authors come and share their work with the CNM community.

Last year was the first year that the CNM library and Leonardo teamed up to host two events in one, Aronson said.

The event was a success so they wanted to combine the events again this year.

“We loved that,” Aronson said, “It was so nice to have student readers involved.”

Previous authors that attended the authors event were Arthur Sze and Jamal May.

CNM Literary Journal Seeking Editors, Writers, and Artists

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Previous issues of the “Leonardo Literary Magazine.”

By Hilary Broman, Staff Reporter

Leonardo, CNM’s fine arts and literary journal, is seeking editors to work on the 2017 issue as well as pieces of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art and photography for submission, said Carly Harschlip, CNM instructor and Leonardo faculty advisor.
Becoming an editor for Leonardo provides students who are interested in pursuing a career in editing and publication hands on experience, Harschlip said.
Students interested in becoming an editor for the upcoming issue can contact Carly Harschlip at leonardo@cnm.edu, she said.
All qualified applicants will be sent a questionnaire then the Leonardo staff will choose editors and the genre that they will be responsible for editing based on the answers to those questions, she said.
Tanya Chavez, who was Leonardo’s lead editor last year said, “It was a good and fun experience and also a resume booster.”
Chavez will be a contributing editor for the Leonardo until she graduates in December 2016 and plans to pursue a career in editing, she said.
It is a great way to get involved and be a part of a community, Harsclip said.
“I truly believe that education is more than just taking classes, it’s expanding your opportunities and looking to understand who you are as a person”, she said.
Students who are interested in being published in Leonardo are able to send their digital submissions to leonardo@cnm.edu from now until Feb. 3, 2017, Harsclip said.
Students are able to submit in any or all of the five genres; poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art and photography, Harsclip said.
“We are looking for work that thinks about things in an interesting and unique way,” Harsclip said.
Some of the work that stands out is work that is thought provoking and that makes people see something from a different perspective, Chavez said.
“We are also drawn to local work about life in Albuquerque or New Mexico,” Harschlip said, “stuff that comes across as so authentic and so specifically New Mexican.”
The rules and guidelines for submissions are as follows:
• Title all work
• Visual art: Leonardo does not return original work. All submissions should be high quality copies of original work. Submit work via email in a jpeg-file and include “ART” as the subject line. Up to three pieces.
• Poetry: No more than three poems, five-pages maximum. Attach as word document and include “POETRY” as the subject line.
• Fiction: Up to two stories, ten-pages maximum. Attach as word document and include “FICTION” as the subject line
• Creative non-fiction: Up to two pieces, ten-pages maximum. Attach as word document and include “CNF” as the subject line.
• Save document with first and last name and genre (Ex: Johnny Smith Poetry)
• Students may submit in more than one genre, but must do so in separate emails. No more than one submission per genre.
The 2017 Leonardo issue is set to be published on April 2017, Harsclip said.
Each year there is a Leonardo release party where students whose work was published in the current issue have a chance to read their work aloud and win awards, Harsclip said.
“I love being able to see students try different things,” she said.
Chavez encourages students who are thinking about submitting a piece for publication to not be afraid and to just go for it.
“If it’s something that you created, that you love and that you want people to see, why not submit it?” she said.

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Leonardo magazine release party

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By Angela Le Quieu ,  Staff Reporter | Angela Le Quieu

The Leonardo is the CNM student based literary magazine that gives students the opportunity to showcase their creative skills and tal­ents, said Hope Hart-Petrie English major and one of the editors for the magazine.

On Friday, April 11 at 11a.m., this year’s Leonardo release party has been planned to be located at the Student Resource Center, first floor library outside the cafe, which will include a poetry reading and music from student authors who have been published in this year’s magazine, Hart- Petrie said.

“The whole idea is to validate the arts and vali­date that side of ourselves that’s reaching for that kind of expression,” Hart- Petrie said.

The event will also be the main distribution shot for the magazine, which is free to CNM students, said English instructor, Dr. Patrick Houlihan, who is the faculty advisor for Leonardo.

The mag­azine features art work and writing that was submit­ted through­out the year up until early in the spring term to Houlihan, and then is selected by volunteer editorial staff, Houlihan said.

In this edition, the edi­tors were able to solicit not just poetry but also short sto­ries, as well as a wide range of art from the CNM art department for the maga­zine, Hart-Petrie said.

“We really want to encourage people with all their different artistic backgrounds and skills to take this opportunity to showcase their work,” Hart- Petrie said.

The title of this year’s addition “Who I am and Where I’ve Been” is the same as the title of the cover art, which Hart-Petrie said reflects the content of the magazine that seems to have a theme of identity and experience.

Works range from tradi­tional drawing and painting, to mosaics and photography, poems in both Spanish and English, short stories, and computer graphic art, Hart- Petrie said.

“We have a huge diverse culture in here and it reflects the student body at this school and I am really pleased with the finished product,” Hart- Petrie said.

One of the many differ­ences with the magazine this year is that the literary maga­zine will be online, as well as in print, Hart-Petrie said.

The various pieces of writing and art work chosen for publication had previously been based on votes from the editors, and due to the sub­jective nature of those votes, some quality work did not make it in, but the online edi­tion allowed for the editors to put some of that work in, Hart-Petrie said.

Houlihan said that offering the publication online has allowed editors to include more works than they were able to put into the printed edition which is limited on space.

Student activities fees pay for the publication of the magazine; although the small budget covers only basics, such as ink and paper, this year they should be able to print more copies than they have been able to in the past, Houlihan said.

“Print edition is paper and ink; it’s the money that limits its size, also at a certain level how much you can staple, it’s really crazy that it becomes a limit but it is—we are going to have the first online edition, and I think that allows them to include some works that physi­cally won’t fit,” Houlihan said.

This year the event at the SRC will also be filmed again, as it has been in the past and it should be avail­able on the CNM web­site, cnm.edu, as well as the online version of the Leonardo, Hart-Petrie said.

“This is here for us, and we also subtitled the maga­zine ‘A Celebration of the Arts,’ because the arts get so neglected and yet the arts are such an enrichment of our lives,” Hart-Petrie said.

Hart-Petrie said that her experience working on the Leonardo literary magazine has been a rewarding one, and that for her going to CNM is not just about her degree, but for life enrichment, and it has given her a chance to retool some of her skills for the cur­rent job market.

For students who cannot make it to the event on April 11, copies of Leonardo will be available in the CHSS office on the fourth floor of Max Salazar Hall, on Main campus or through creative writing instructors throughout other campuses, Houlihan said.

Students who cannot make it to Main campus, or who wish to submit work for consideration in the next edi­tion of the Leonardo literary magazine, may contact Dr. Houlihan by email at houli­han@cnm.edu, he said.

“The most important thing we can say about the Leonardo is for people to submit (work),” Hart- Petrie said.

‘Leonardo Literary Magazine’ release party announced

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By: Adriana Avila, Managing Editor | Photo Illustration By: Jonathan Gamboa, Production Manager

Previous issues of the “Leonardo Literary Magazine.”
Previous issues of the “Leonardo Literary Magazine.”

The 2013 edition of “Leonardo Literary Magazine” is scheduled to be released next month, said “Leonardo” adviser and Full-time Creative Writing instructor Patrick Houlihan.

The release party for this year’s edition will be held at the Main campus Student Resource Center on April 5 where stu­dents will have the opportunity to share their works during the festivities, he said.

“It’s a celebration of what’s in it. Anyone who is published in it can stand up and read their stuff and pick up copies, share them with friends,” he said.

“Leonardo” is funded by through student activ­ity fees and prints only 250 copies of each edition, which are free, he said.

With the increase of student interest, “Leonardo” has grown from tabloid size to an actual magazine length, he said.

“It’s grown and sta­bilized over the years to where it’s now a 50 or 60 page magazine full color and student activities has been great at funding the increase costs. Paper and ink took a huge jump about five or seven years ago,” he said.

Being published is a big step for people and it helps a great deal to write it on resumes, he said.

“It’s a wonderful resume line to say ‘I’m a published author or artist selected,’” Houlihan said.

English major and “Leonardo” editor Shaya Rogers said it is a privilege to review student works because this year’s submis­sions were impressive.

“Giving students the opportunity to share their creative work is a positive aspect of the CNM community and I am so happy to support that,” Rogers said.

Rogers, who also works as the features reporter for the CNM Chronicle, has three nature photos and two poems featured in the magazine: one about her challenges with monog­amy and the other an ode to her sister who commit­ted suicide when she was a teenager, she said.

Business and Communications major and layout designer Jonathan Gamboa, who also works at the produc­tion manager for the CNM Chronicle, said he enjoys designing the magazine because it gives him the opportunity be creative.

“I think it’s fun. Since I am the only one designing, it allows me to have more freedom in producing the magazine,” Gamboa said.

This is Gamboa’s second design year and his role for “Leonardo” extends further profes­sionally from the mouse and screen, he said.

“I really did get pro­fessional experience doing it the first year because I was having to stay in touch with the printers and coordinat­ing the release party with the editors, along with setting my own deadlines to finish the magazine,” he said.

Houlihan said “Leonardo” used to be a semester project for the Business and Graphics department, but the magazine became the work of volunteer stu­dents after the pro­gram was cut a couple of years ago.

Submissions for “Leonardo” for 2014 are now being accepted and deadline for works will probably be in early January 2014, he said.

Houlihan hopes to continue the works of “Leonardo” because of the community’s great reviews and the benefits students receive when published, he said.

“It’s a nice repre­sentation of us to the community and I’d hate for it to disappear,” Houlihan said.