About Yanguana and Voices de la Luna

Yanaguana is a project of Voices de la Luna, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization promoting literature and the healing arts. All donations are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

From 2008 to 2024 Voices de la Luna published Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Literature and Arts Magazine.

In 2025 Voices de La Luna launched Yanaguana, in which we feature unpublished work from new, emerging, and established writers and artists in all spirit water communities. Through Yanaguana we support the work of Juan Tejeda at Yanaguana Press, an imprint of Aztlan Libre press, which focuses on amplifying Native American, Indian, and Xicanx voices and art. In addition, we feature a Poetic Medicine section, publishing works written by participants in community Poetic Medicine classes. We feature Eco poetry in the section Stone in the Stream / Roca en el Rio. Yanaguana also includes reviews, interviews, and other features showcasing important community voices.

Voices de la Luna is devoted to the process of artistic creation at all levels in the community, with Yanaguana showing the best of that artistic flowering.

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Voices de la Luna

https://www.voicesdelaluna.net/

About Voices de La Luna.

In addition to publishing a magazine for over fifteen years and launching Yanaguana 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 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.