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Notes of Light and Dark: Southwestern Aubades and Nocturnes is an exciting poetic interpretation of dawns and dusks, mornings and evenings, sunrises and sunsets by a diverse range of poets who have experienced the wonders of the skies of the American Southwest. Whether Texas Hill Country, Big Bend, White Sands, Bisti Badlands, Rocky Mountains, Grand Canyon, or Death Valley, the Southwest is blessed with wide remote spaces and skies as endless as the imaginations of the 107 poets represented in these pages. Here are poems of love and loss, of discovery and abandonment, of nature and landscapes, of witness and faith in a variety of free verse, prose poems, and other forms from abecedarians to haibun to sonnets. With their candor, insight, and lyricism, these aubades and nocturnes are guaranteed to make you see the light of the lands and people of the American Southwest, as well as the dark.

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Widely published in journals and anthologies-many in poetic form-Scott Wiggerman is the author of four books of poetry-Beginning and Ending with Emily: Ghazals & Golden Shovels (Casa Urraca Press, forthcoming, 2026), Leaf and Beak: Sonnets, Presence, and Vegetables and Other Relationships. Co-founder of Dos Gatos Press and founding editor of the Press series, Poetry of The Southwestern U.S., Wiggerman has edited numerous poetry publications, including best-selling craft books Wingbeats I & II: Exercises & Practice in Poetry. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, he lives with his husband, the writer David Meischen, in the shadow of Albuquerque's Three Sisters volcanos. A Pushcart honoree with a personal essay in Pushcart Prize XLII, David Meischen is the author of Nopalito, Texas: Stories (University of New Mexico Press, 2024) and Caliche Road Poems (Lamar University Press,2024). Anyone's Son, from 3: A Taos Press, was honored with Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters (2020). Meischen's work has appeared in The Common, Copper Nickel, The Gettysburg Review, Naugatuck River Review, The San Pedro River Review,, and elsewhere. A former juror for the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, he is an alumnus of the Jentel Arts residency program. Co-founder and Managing Editor of Dos Gatos Press, he lives on Albuquerque's West Mesa with his husband-also his co-publisher and co-editor-Scott Wiggerman.

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