by Connie Wieneke

Artist Robert Martinez discusses challenging his audience’s assumptions and creating art that captures the living, breathing presence of its subjects…

Need some inspo to kick off a productive writing weekend? Check out this great writing prompt from HDJ Board Member Stacy Boe Miller . . .

by Maira Rodriguez

“we cruise on desolate
nights, near empty
gas tanks, regret”…

Need some inspiration? Here’s a little writing prompt from HDJ contributor Nancy Beauregard that might help.

by Nance Van Winckel

“The logic named names and said it was hungry”…

by Emily Arntsen

“The act of passing out is familiar to me, though I’m still mystified about what we pass out of and where we pass into when such incidents occur.”

For all of April (a.k.a. National Poetry Month), we prompted the ever-growing High Desert Journal family to send us their best “High Desert Haiku,” and boy did they deliver! Our amazing Social Media Coordinator/Nonfiction Reader, Evonne Ellis, collected everyone’s contributions throughout the month, and we’re excited to share them with you now—

Featuring art by Sandra Dal Pogetto and Frances Stilwell, and new writing by Rick Newby, Scott Hartman, Zachary Ostraff, Suzanne Strazza, Emily Withnall, Brooke Williams, L. Barthule, Hillary Behrman, Camille Meder, Leath Tonino, Zoe Boyer, Lorri Frisbee, Talley Kayser, and John Yohe.

High Desert Journal and Nonfiction Editor CMarie Fuhrman are pleased to introduce Guest Nonfiction Editor, Leeanna Torres.

HDJ contributor Kathryn Wilder’s essay “Lunar Red” made the list of notable essays in Best American Essays 2021.

A poem to acknowledge that the land itself - along with the people whose language, culture, and religion were born of it - is rarely acknowledged.

High Desert Journal is thrilled to announce new additions to our Board of Directors! Please welcome Robert Stubblefield, Stacy Boe Miller, and founding Editor of HDJ, Elizabeth Quinn

Watch HDJ contributors Corrie Williamson, Karen Auvinen, and Leanna Torres give a special reading from Issue No. 32.

HDJ Poetry Editor Sheryl Noethe has kindly donated $1,000 in the name of her mother, Barbara Noethe.