Voices de la Luna is a nonprofit organization promoting quality literature and the healing arts. Co-Founded in 2008 by San Antonio writers Dr. Mo Saidi and Dr. Jim Brandenburg, the organization published Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Literature and Arts Magazine from 2008 to 2024. In 2025 the Board of Directors will launch a new journal, Yanaguana, which will feature unpublished work from new, emerging, and established writers and artists.

Community Work

In addition to publishing a magazine for over fifteen years and launching a new journal in 2025, Voices de la Luna works with the community in a variety of different ways.

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 and 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 our publication. 

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.

Our annual Poetry Festival held in April during National Poetry Month supports and features new and established poets in a piñata-worthy celebration that includes community vendors, performers, and artists. 

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.

Watch our social media pages on Instagram, Facebook, and X, formerly known as Twitter, for announcements on our workshops, classes, and events with the community!