Voices de la Luna: A San Antonio Literature and Arts Non-Profit

Voices de la Luna: A San Antonio Literature and Arts Non-Profit Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Literature & Arts Magazine focusing on writers and artists of South T

Voices de la Luna is a quarterly literature and arts magazine. Founded in 2008 by San Antonio writers Mo Saidi and Jim Brandenburg, the magazine is the premier literary magazine in South Texas. All of us who are involved with the production of the magazine and with the many community services offered by Voices staff, board members, and contributors believe that poetry heals and arts advance the qu

ality of life. Mission Statement:
Voices de la Luna inspires and promotes literature and arts and serves as a platform for all authors and artists to share their work with others. It further uses literature and arts for both educational and healing purposes in the community. Community Work:
In addition to publishing a magazine, the Voices de la Luna organization works in the community in a variety of different ways. Some of these have included

~Poetry therapy sessions at several locations, including Haven for Hope
~Art therapy sessions at the Bexar County Detention Center
~Monthly literary venues with workshops and guest readers
~Participation in and support of area-wide poetry and arts venues
~Collaboration with other local literary and arts organizations


Donations are welcome: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PX32HSV7LJZQL

This looks interesting to us, dear writers! Let us know if they accept your work! https://www.wellspringwords.love/submi...
01/29/2026

This looks interesting to us, dear writers! Let us know if they accept your work!
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Inner space cultivation; aligned expression of authentic truthThank you for your desire to contribute to this anthology of intimate literature and visual art; thank you for being a necessary part of this community. Issue 5: To Be a Living AncestorIn this issue of our Literary Anthology, we wish to e...

This will be such a beautiful event at the end of this difficult start to 2026. Writers who will help us heal and center...
01/29/2026

This will be such a beautiful event at the end of this difficult start to 2026. Writers who will help us heal and center ourselves to be ready for what is to come. Hope to see you there!

Families are invited to a special evening with Joy Harjo, 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate, for a reading of "For a Girl Becoming". Join us for poetry, art, and storytelling—plus a book giveaway while supplies last. 📖✨⁠
📍 Las Palmas Branch Library⁠
🗓 January 30 | 5:30–7:00 PM⁠
🎟 Free & open to all⁠

TONIGHT! So thrilled the Alamo Colleges are bringing these legends to our city on a very important National Day of Peace...
01/29/2026

TONIGHT! So thrilled the Alamo Colleges are bringing these legends to our city on a very important National Day of Peace conversation!

📣 Reminder! 📣 Tomorrow, January 29 at 7pm! Free!

Join the Alamo Colleges District at the 5th Annual National Day of Collective Healing and experience the transformative power of words with U.S. Poet Laureates Joy Harjo and Ada Limón at Finding Our Center: Healing & Wholeness through Poetry — a soul-stirring celebration of poetry, healing, and connection.

RSVP your spot here https://bit.ly/4alrHh6

What an opportunity!
01/29/2026

What an opportunity!

Litfield is everything I want in a poetry workshop/program: Exposure to guest poets and their work, wonderful craft workshops with poem examples from Danusha, an online community to connect to others participating in the program, and the opportunity to join a prompt class to inspire my writing and a...

Some say everyone is walking around with a broken heart. Could it be true? Is that rhe issue? San Antonio is rich in poe...
01/25/2026

Some say everyone is walking around with a broken heart. Could it be true? Is that rhe issue? San Antonio is rich in poets, and it is ALSO rich with poetic medcine practitioners. Poetic medicine helps us reach into the heartbreak for clarity, for light, for smoothing the ruptured surfaces of our lives. It can break a heart open so healing can come in. Check out our beautiful Poetic Medicine Section curated by the amazing Cyra Dumitru, a Professor, Author, and Practitioner of Poetic Medicine! Check out this Sequence of Poems and try your hand at writing for clarity, for healing. https://www.voicesdelaluna.net/yanaguana-vol1-iss1/poetic-medicinerg

Inspired by John Fox, these poets illuminate healing through the holistic practice of poetry. Featured poets include Cyra S. Dumitru, Jane Marie Grovijahn, Darren J. Poidevin, and more.

Check out these moving cylindrical and syncopated poems by author, Professor, and critic, Reggie Scott Young. Try not to...
01/25/2026

Check out these moving cylindrical and syncopated poems by author, Professor, and critic, Reggie Scott Young. Try not to care as he takes yiur heart and tells it what. Amplifying the work of Reggie for all to see in Yanaguana, San Antonio’s new literary journal, a Voices de la Luna Project! Open and see voices, healing, and art!

Reggie Scott Young poetry examines belonging, identity, struggling, and more in Featured Poets for Yanaguana vol. 1 issue 1.

Look at the wonderments of poems by Publisher, Poet, Professor, Mentor, and Author Laura VanProoyen! We thank her for he...
01/25/2026

Look at the wonderments of poems by Publisher, Poet, Professor, Mentor, and Author Laura VanProoyen! We thank her for her poems in our inaugural of Yanaguana, San Antonio’s new literary journal of voice, healing, and art. Send us your work!

Laura Van Prooyen’s poetry explores themes of twilight and nature, offering a glimpse into her book Frances of the Wider Field in Featured Poets for Yanaguana vol. 1 issue 1.

Celebrating Featured Poet, Artist, Activist Cloud Cardona in our inaugural issue of Yanaguana, San Antonio’s new literar...
01/25/2026

Celebrating Featured Poet, Artist, Activist Cloud Cardona in our inaugural issue of Yanaguana, San Antonio’s new literary journal. Voices. Healing. Art !

Cloud Delfina Cardona array of poems examine identity, grief, and more, in Featured Poets for Yanaguana vol. 1 issue 1.

Congratulations  Sze, our new, 25th US Poet Laureate who is focusing on translation — as an entry to poetry. What a gift...
09/19/2025

Congratulations Sze, our new, 25th US Poet Laureate who is focusing on translation — as an entry to poetry. What a gift for anyone who wants to begin accompanied to explore poetry guided by a voice, a blueprint, a poem in another language that will give poets of all levels a new gateway to revelatory work and let you tell it your way.

Celébrate this month by going out to hear these two fantastic Chicana powerhouses discuss Stephanie Elizondo Griest’s ne...
09/17/2025

Celébrate this month by going out to hear these two fantastic Chicana powerhouses discuss Stephanie Elizondo Griest’s new book Art Above Everything! You’ll never forget this conversation! SA is so lucky to have them in the same room at the same time! Yay Northwest Vista College & Gemini Ink in collaboration to bring such talented authors directly to college students!

This Thursday! ✨ Celebrate Latinx Heritage Month with award-winning author Stephanie Elizondo Griest at Northwest Vista College. She’ll present her new book, Art Above Everything, then join journalist Cecilia Ballí in conversation. Free & open to all! https://geminiink.org/events/art-above-everything/

SOLD OUT. But of course it is! Our Poetic Medicine expert, Lisha Garcia takes writers to new places and into parts of th...
09/17/2025

SOLD OUT. But of course it is! Our Poetic Medicine expert, Lisha Garcia takes writers to new places and into parts of the self that need release, that need discovery! That use poetry to heal.

More good things like this workshop below are coming!

And poets doing Poetic Medicine, Eco-Poetry, book reviewers, and writers of creative non-fiction, submit! We are open for submissions! See our new submission guidelines for Yanaguana, a free journal coming soon! https://voicesdelaluna.submittable.com/submit

Happy Latine and Hispanic Heritage Month! To celebrate, Voices de La Luna highlights one of the best museums in the coun...
09/16/2025

Happy Latine and Hispanic Heritage Month! To celebrate, Voices de La Luna highlights one of the best museums in the country. Head to Chicago, Illinois and you will see great works of art, not only at the Chicago Institute Of Art, (wow wow!!) one if our faves, but this UNIQUE gem in our nation, the https://nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org, which showcases beautiful Mexican and Mexican American artwork. An afternoon there! Delicious, educational, inspiring! Feliz 16 de Septiembre! Viva San Antonio! Viva History! Vida for all!

Immerse yourself in the richness of Mexican art and culture at the National Museum of Mexican Art. We showcase 3,600 years of creativity from both sides of the border, connecting museum visitors to the diversity of Mexican culture.

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