Nothing Rhymes with Orange
Volume Two
Marsha Arzberger
Marsha Arzberger is a cowgirl, a search-and-rescue pilot, a rancher, a retired Arizona State Senator, a former Dean of a Junior College, and an author. She has published a historical romance novel, an award-winning non-fiction western historical book, an award-winning essay, short stories, and historical articles.
Nonfiction
Gene Bourne
Nonfiction
Jerry Cornwell
Jerry Cornwell has been a high-altitude baker for 40 years. This occupation allowed him to meet interesting people and learn from them. He recently retired and uses his time to reflect on history and the future. He has been published in several small presses. Cornwell spends as much time as possible outdoors observing birds.
Nonfiction & Poetry
Mary Rose Henssler
Mary Rose Henssler spent most of her life in Nevada, in the small town of Battle
Mountain, and later on Henderson, neon-lit Las Vegas, and other places, other states. She
now lives outside Las Vegas, N.M, with her husband Bob. Her poem Mixing Coffee and Tea was the result of a prompt challenge for a Second Sunday writing group exercise.
Poetry
Robert Henssler
Robert Henssler’s poetry is taken from personal experience as well as observation. He may view a photo or painting and react by writing out what he sees and feels. He doesn’t adhere to any measured metric or rhyme; life doesn’t come to us in a form noted out on a staff.
Poetry
Jock Jacober
Jock Jacober lives and gardens in Taos. Poetry is the magic with which he is rooted to the planet. He is wildly enthusiastic about this publication. It fills his desire to embrace the abundant resources and creativity of this region; its history, its geography, and its spirit making a home for us all.
Poetry
Amy Kaplan
Poetry
Kathamann
NOTE: From the Poetry Foundation website, written by Don Share in 2017: The Golden Shovel is a poetic form readers might not — yet — be familiar with. It was devised by Terrance Hayes in homage to Gwendolyn Brooks. The last words of each line in a Golden Shovel poem are, in order, words from a line or lines taken often, but not invariably … from an existing poem.
Poetry
Martin Leger
Poetry
Kate Marco
Poetry
Mary McGinnis
Mary McGinnis, blind since birth, has been writing and living in New Mexico since 1972, inspired by emptiness, desert, and mountains. Published in more than 80 publications, she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize two times. She has three full length collections: Listening for Cactus (1996), October Again (2008), See with Your Whole Body (2016), and a chapbook, Breath of Willow (2017). All five poems submitted here have never been published anywhere else.
Poetry
Nancy English Perry
Nonfiction
Rachaal Immerman Steel
Rachaal was born and raised in New Mexico, and now splits her time between Mexico and Japan. Rachaal comes home to visit her parents, longtime residents of Las Vegas, once or twice a year. She prefers green chili but will always order Christmas on her stuffy.
Poetry
Van Swan
Short Fiction
Scott Wiggerman
Scott is co-organizer of the annual Albuquerque Poets’ Picnic, is the author of three books of poetry, Leaf and Beak: Sonnets, Presence, and Vegetables and Other Relationships; his fourth collection, Beginning and Ending with Emily: Ghazals & Shovels, will appear in 2026 from Casa Urraca Press.
Poetry
Robert Tighe
Robert is a retired science teacher and writer.
Poetry
Sharon Vander Meer
Sharon Vander Meer spent much of her career as a freelance writer, reporter and editor. She has five published novels: Thunder Prime, Hunter’s Light, Blind Curve, Finding Family, Future Imperfect, and The Ballad of Bawdy McClure. She has also published a book of inspirational readings, Not Just Another Day, and two chap books of poetry. She is a founding member of Las Vegas Lit, an organization that promotes the work of writers, and publisher of Nothing Rhymes with Orange.
Poetry
Eileen (Kalinowski) Wiard
Eileen Wiard came to Taos, N. M. from Boston on a Wurlitzer Foundation writing residency for two months in the summer of 2002. She fell in love with the high desert and never went back, leaving behind a teaching career that she loved for a life of writing plays, essays, poems and songs. She lives with her husband, Steve, in Ranchos de Taos, N.M., where they honor each other’s souls.
Poetry
Jennifer Wise
Jennifer Wise is an author of short fiction and essay. She currently resides in rural New Mexico. Her work has been published in Northern Woodlands Magazine, Utne Reader, and Nothing Rhymes with Orange.