Joan Logghe has been an integral part of New Mexico's Poetry Renaissance. She writes poetry, non-fiction, and reviews, teaching writing as a key to emotional activism.

Logghe has won a National Endowment in Poetry, a Barbara Deming Memorial/Money for Women grant, and the Language of Life contest featuring her poem "Something Like Marriage" on KNME TV. Other grants include funding from New Mexico Arts and from Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. In 2001 she was awarded the first Mabel Dodge Luhan internship to spend two weeks writing at Mabel Dodge Luhan's historic house in Taos.

Author or editor of numerous books or chapbooks, Logghe has been presenter, keynote speaker, or reader at a variety of settings in New Mexico and nationally, including Armand Hammer United World College, Taos Institute, Vancouver International Writer's Conference, New Mexico School for the Deaf, New Mexico State Penitentiary, Univeristy of New Mexico-Los Alamos, and Ghost Ranch Conference Center where she has been on the faculty since 1991.