My Collection of Wings
My Collection of Wings, set to be exhibited at Kouri Corrao Gallery in Santa Fe, NM in August 2025, reflects on Mulert’s experiences in rural Valencia County in Central New Mexico.
David McCarthy on My Collection of Wings
Going With the Flow:
Art, Action and Western Waters
"Water," commissioned by SITE Santa Fe for the GOING WITH THE FLOW: ART, ACTION AND WESTERN WATERS exhibit, was used in a call to action, seen here, for Paula Castillo's Reverse the Curse, a socially engaged, participatory community-based performance that revealed a grassroots desire for participatory guardianship to the Rio Grande.
Bio
Terry Mulert (b. 1963, Milwaukee, WI) is a Puerto Rican-American poet whose work is deeply rooted in the landscapes and communities of New Mexico. His early mentors—Antler, Ed Ward, John Kay, Alvaro Cardona-Hine, and Pierre Delattre—helped shape a style often described as Green Romanticism, a lyrical engagement with nature, memory, and human connection. As the son of a blue-collar factory worker, he understands the weight of labor, the search for meaning in the everyday, and the power of poetry to bridge divides.
Living along the Rio Grande Corridor from Córdova to Belén, at the base of the Pecos Wilderness and the Manzano Mountains, Mulert has spent decades honing his craft in the rural communities that inspire his work. His poetry manuscripts have been a top three finalist in the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry, a top five finalist in the Codhill Poetry Award, and a top two finalist in the Bright Hill Press Chapbook Award, and his poems have been widely published in various literary journals and anthologies.
Statement on Poetics
“Live in a perpetual state of astonishment.”
Theodore Roethke
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Life, art, identity and mystery. These are four themes I wish to break apart free from the mind, find their scraps on the ground, and experience their reunion in the naked act of making a poem. Writing poetry has been well documented as a higher order of difficulty, and so I try to maintain an intimate relationship with disorder in my faith that something beautiful, painful, colorful and new will prevail. I live in a world where my heroes are somewhere both dead and alive listening and waiting for the words to arrive on the page.
Select Publication List
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I-70 Review, Lawrence, KS, 2024.
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Punt Volat, electronic, Barcelona Spain, and Temple, TX, 2024.
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The Meadow, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, NV, 2024.
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San Pedro River Review, Torrance, CA, 2023.
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SITE Santa Fe, commissioned poem, curated by art critic Lucy Lippard, NM, 2023.
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To Disappear, (broadside), Palace of Governor’s Press, Santa Fe, NM, 2022.
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Manzano Mountain Review, University of New Mexico - Valencia, NM, 2020.
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Grey Sparrow Journal, St. Paul, MN, 2020.
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Ocotillo Review, Austin, TX, 2019.
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Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, University of Arkansas at Monticello, AK, 2019.
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The Aurorean, literary journal, Encircle Publications, ME, 2019.
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Metonym Literary Journal, Jessup University, Rockland, CA, 2019.
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Trickster, Northern New Mexico College, Española, NM, 2014 and 2017.
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Prairie Winds, poetry journal, SD, 2014
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Poetry Pacific, poetry journal, online,Vancouver, BC, 2012.
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Glass, poetry journal, online, OH, 2011.
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Avatar, poetry journal, online, St. Mary's College of Maryland, MD, 2011.
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Eating the Pure Light: Homage to Thomas McGrath, Backwaters Press, NE, 2009.
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The Water-stone Review, Hamline University, Minneapolis, MN, 2005.
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Just Outside the Frame, anthology, Tres Chicas Press, Santa Fe, NM, 2005.
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California Quarterly, Orange, CA, 2004.
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The Madison Review, UW-Madison, Madison, WI, 2004.
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The Mid-America Poetry Review, Warrensburg, MO, 2004.
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The Lilliput Review, Pittsburgh, PA, 2004.
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Mudfish, New York, NY, 2004.
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Fox River Review, University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley, WI, 2004
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Puerto del Sol, New Mexico State University, NM, 2004.
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Plainsongs (Award Poem), Hastings, NE, 2003.
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Texas Poetry Review: Borderlands, Austin, TX, 2003.
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Concha River Review, San Angelo, TX, 2003
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The Baltimore Review, Baltimore, MD, 2002.
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The Hawai’i Review, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI, 2002
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The Nassau Review, SUNY, Garden City, NY, 2001.
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Big Scream, Detroit, MI, 2001.
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The Chiron Review, Detroit, MI, 2001.
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Facing Chalk, Eye Light Press, Cordova NM, 2000.
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Fat Sky, Eye Light Press, Cordova NM, 1992.
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Mateship (broadside), Eye Light Press, Germany, 1987.
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Too Hungry to be Shy (broadside), Passion Press, Denver, CO, 1985
On Mulert's Poetry
Alvaro Cardona-Hine
Composer and poet
"...the healing voice of the immemorial shaman-bard, of the heart-bound orpheus singer..."
Miriam Sagan
Poet
"...the poet uses a pure lyrical tone and clear eye to observe the world around him, both natural and human."
—review of
"Facing Chalk"
New Mexico Magazine
Pierre Delattre
Novelist
"Such poetic sensibility, such a delicate touch. I can think of no contemporary poet who offers breath, rhythm, imagery, reflection life mixed with death longing so exquisitely.”
John Kay
Poet
“I'm almost speechless at the feet of these poems. Not a single image slipped off the table and rattled to the floor. "
Dwight Marsh
Editor Plainsongs
“Mulert has a gift for his phrases which are concrete, objective and subjective all at once--a talent Keats and Dylan Thomas share.”
Books and Chapbooks
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