What Makes a Woman Beautiful

by Joan Logghe, Jim Sagel (Introduction)

Joan Logghe's enthusiasm for poetry is reflected in her teaching and performance methods. Wife, mother of three children and poetry editor of Mothering Magazine, Joan has enjoyed serving as a New Mexico Artist-in-Residence- working with elders, prisoners, the deaf, and elementary and college students. Recipient of an NEA award for her poetry, Joan is also the author of A Lunch Date With Beallty and Poems From the Russian Room. Her work has appeared widely in a number of small press publications and anthologies. Joan lives in the Espanola valley where many of her poems are rooted and where she continues to offer writing workshops both nationally and locally. Her poems deal with themes of everyday life in a sensuous manner and soar beyond the passions of this world. Jim Sagel is a bilingual poet, essayist and fiction writer whose collection of short stories in Spanish, Tunomds Honey, won the Premio Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba in 1981. His wide-ranging work in Spanish and English has won him recognition in both the Hispanic and contemporary Anglo worlds. Mr. Sagel, who teaches writing and bilingual literature, lives in Espanola, New Mexico, with his wife, weaver Teresa Archuleta Sage!. Author of twelve impressive books, Mr. Sagel's eye and ear for the languages of his time have earned him respect and admiration. The Pennywhistle Chapbook Series celebrates a collection of voices both eclectic and exuberant. The series embraces no single school of poetry but introduces the reading public to new work from new voices as well as new work from familiar voices. What binds the poets is their quality of poetic expression, their originality, and their clarity of intent. There are now 18 titles in the series and information may be obtained by writing or calling the press.

Genres: Poetry

31 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Joan Logghe has lived a life of poetry in La Puebla, New Mexico, where she and her husband, Michael, built their solar houses, raised three children, have five grandkids, and one great grandson. She has taught extensively all ages, from UNM-Los Alamos to children in central Europe. She has led a yearly workshop at Ghost Ranch since 1990, taught at Santa Clara Pueblo day school, and, for 21 years, at the Santa Fe Girls’ School. Over and over, she has experienced the salutary power of poetry. She has run art and writing workshops, AIDS writing circles, and workshops for crisis, illness, and loss. Joan was Santa Fe’s Poet Laureate from 2010–2012. She has inspired and edited countless books by children and adults and served as Poetry Editor for Peggy O’Mara’s Mothering Magazine for many years. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry Grants, a Mabel Dodge Luhan Internship, and a Barbara Deming/Money for Women grant. Her books include Jade Bird: Singing Grief (Wild Rising Press), What Makes a Woman Beautiful (Pennywhistle Press), Twenty Years in Bed with the Same Man (La Alameda Press), Sophia (La Alameda Press), Another Desert: Jewish Poetry of New Mexico (edited with Miriam Sagan, Sherman Asher Press), Blessed Resistance (Mariposa Printing & Publishing), Rice (Tres Chicas Books), Love & Death: Greatest Hits (with Miriam Sagan and Renée Gregorio, Tres Chicas Books), The Singing Bowl (UNM Press), and Unpunctuated Awe: Poems of Santa Fe (Tres Chicas Books).