Judyth conducts poetry workshops in conjunction with many museums, teaching writing on-site; including the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and the International Museum of Folk Art in Santa Fe, presenting poetry workshops based on the exhibits, and producing poetry curricula for their web-site.
She conducts short-term poetry residencies, and teacher in-services at various schools statewide and nationally, and is the yearly Poet-in- Residence at the Flint Hill School in Oakton, VA, and the Swain School in Allentown, PA. She also teaches yearlong poetry classes at Rio Gallinas Charter School in Las Vegas NM.
Judyth presents a bi-monthly Moonwriting workshop, every month, at her website, www.JudythHill.com.
Her six published books of poetry, include Baker’s Baedeker, The Goddess Cafe, Hardwired For Love, Presence of Angels, Men Need Space, which is in its second printing, and Black Hollyhock, First Light.
Judyth authored the cookbook for the Santa Fe restaurant, Geronimo, published by Ten Speed Press in Berkley, CA, and is currently writing a book on chocolate, in collaboration with noted Chocolatier Michael Mckenna..
Her poems are included in numerous anthologies. For many years, she wrote a well-loved monthly column for the Albuquerque Journal, Grandma Boomer; her art and travel writing have been widely published. Currently, she is a contributing writer for Sacred Fire Magazine in Boston, and The Catalyst, in Salt Lake City.
She is the author of the internationally acclaimed poem, Wage Peace, which has been set to music by the Cincinnati Women’s Choir, and is available as a poster and CD. Judyth was described by the St. Helena Examiner as, "Energy with skin”, and by the Denver Post as “A tigress with a pen”.
Judyth Hill's Career Narrative: Living the Writing Life
I often say that I'm from the "Everything Matters" school of writing.
I feel entirely blessed. I have the pleasure and privilege of devoting my time to making and performing poems, working with serious teen poets in an ongoing project funded by the Witter Bynner Poetry Foundation, free-lance journalism, teaching poetry in museums, and generally making all the important, juicy mistakes of life.
I am dedicated to studying and teaching creative process as the next major phase in the development of the Future Human. All while living seriously rural, in a hand-made retro-fitted Chocolate Factory, outside San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
It's a life about passion, and choices. And joy. And having fun.
I chose San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Chose her above all others for beauty, for the possibility of preserving still-pristine landscape, air and waters, for her swirl of tangy cultures, and chilies and moles in every form and fashion.
My writing, performing and teaching come from my faith in the delicate and intricate connection of our political, emotional, cognitive, spiritual, imaginational bodies, both within the self, and within the social web, to each other.
And all of this connected to our funny bone.
I am lucky: I love to write. I love the balancing of craft and passion, the work behind the work. And then, I love to read it to you.
Because that's what completes the circle of the creative act: it's not "whole and sole" without your presence.
So, Everything Matters:
Being a force for good in the world, keeping a sense of justice and a sense of humor. Knowing to fall in love with each other, good desserts, flocks of wild geese in flight. To notice the Rio when she's running high, the appearance of morning doves and grosbeaks in July, the line breaks in Williams, the melody in Yeats, the instress in Hopkins and the way the columbines and odd blue Western Dayflowers are so abundant in a year of bountiful monsoons.
To use my mother’s good dishes because she never did, and my own gift with language, because if I don’t, who will?
Making love, dinner and connections. Getting the point. Listening deeply to the music of the ordinary, the wisdom of elders, infants and the night wind moving through Ponderosa pines from my front porch. And singing it back, as best my innate talents and acquired skills will grant me.
Making sure my best keeps getting better.
Admiring the plain, astonishing beauty everywhere present, and not losing sight of the fallen in our barrios, the Middle East, and the AIDS epidemic.
Remembering to show gratitude, forgiveness and a little leg.
Remembering that if it’s true that 90% of success is just showing up, 10% of every effort goes for glory.
So, here I am, ready, willing, able and going for gold.
Michael Mckenna’s Bio
Little is known of this mysterious creature…he is sometimes seen at night, chef by day…
Chances are he has done it before….makes for interesting conversation.
Michael Mckenna's Thoughts on Life at Simple Choice Farm
Simple Choice Farm is a collaboration between the American poet, Judyth Hill and myself,a Canadian Chocolatier, both artists and dedicated foodies.
The concept here at our farm is simple: we grow and cook fabulous food, create art, enjoy the company of each other and our guest artists; live in peace and beauty, and an exciting hive of creativity.
We invite painters, sculptors, writers, dancers, musicans, and chefs to visit and share this good life…we dine … we mingle… we create.
The Farm and surrounds inhabit an ancient land, inspiration is abundant…breath it in and create . … Create.
This is a place where you are continually surprised by the smallest of heart-opening details….a place to relax… take stock …unwind.
Find yourself or let the thought find you.
We all need time ..time to reflect…time to make a new direction or continue with earnest zeal .
We feed you… nurture you...respect the processes that fill each artist's individual wellsprings…make you comfortable.
No rush...no haste…it will come….relax.
Look out ..see the egret's morning circle over Jalpa valley, their return as sundown's rosy colors fill the western sky…they mark each day. What will it bring…
Belly full…nights on the wing…sweet smells of fire…conversations ebb and flow.
Smoke in our hair…thoughts to think…bed calls… sweet dreams ahead.
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