About Voices de la Luna

Voices de la Luna, a community arts and literary arts organization, works with the community in a variety of ways. We published the Voices de la Luna magazine for over fifteen years before retiring it from circulation and launching Yanaguana in 2025. But we do more.

In our Creativity & la Concienca Nueva Masterclass Series, we have taught the craft of writing through low-cost workshops on poetry, nonfiction, and fiction with established and experienced authors such as Guadalupe Garcia McCall, Candy J. Cooper, Kathy Seligman, and Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. 

Honoring and continuing the work of Voices de la Luna founder, Jungian analyst and Certified Poetry Therapist, Dr. James "Jim" Brandenberg, we host Poetry Medicine sessions led by board member and Certified Practitioner of Poetic Medicine, poet Lisha Garcia. Jim Brandenburg wove poetry and dream interpretation in his therapy as a healing process. During his long career as high school and college educator he mentored students at the Institute for Poetic Medicine, including our own Lisha Garcia, who is carrying on his work and who also edits the Poetic Medicine section of Yanaguana. 

We collaborate with local organizations and partners such as Gemini Ink, Our Word is Our Vote, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, Galeria E.V.A., and Alabrava Press, who create a platforms for artists and believe in the active and transformative function of art, poetry, and writing in society.

It is our honor to work in collaboration with other local literary and arts organizations who give voice to new ways of thinking about the healing powers of so many forms of creativity.