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EDUCATION
M.F.A
Poetry, 1989 B.A.
English, 1983 (cum laude)
University of Arizona
Vassar College
Tucson, Arizona
Poughkeepsie, New York
Thesis: Poetry, Translation
Thesis: Thoreau
EMPLOYMENT & HONORARY POSITIONS
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Executive Director and Core Artist,
Littleglobe, a New Mexico-based non-profit that
exists to create collaborative art, encourage community capacity,
and foster life-affirming connections across the boundaries that
divide us. The Littleglobe artistic team—filmmakers, composers,
musicians, poets, visual artists, and other creative
professionals--collaborates with communities as well as affiliate
artists, community organizers, and partner organizations on
large-scale creative and community projects. Littleglobe also
produces smaller-scale individual artist-led projects. See
www.littleglobe.org for
more.
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Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico
(March 2008-March 2010).
Appointed in
March 2008 by the City of Santa Fe. The position requires public
readings, a body of work about Santa Fe, and an
educational/community outreach project. See the Lines and Circles
family project, below.
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Associate Professor of English & Creative Writing.
Department of
Creative Writing & Literature. The College of Santa Fe, Fall 2003-May
2009.
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Adjunct Lecturer.
University of
New Mexico and Institute for American Indian Arts (IAIA). Spring
2008 to present.
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Asst. Professor of
English & Creative Writing, Director of Interdisciplinary Studies
(tenure-track), Creative Writing, Humanities & Interdisciplinary Studies
Department (CHI), The College of
Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 2005 to
May 2007.
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Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing
(tenure-track),
Humanities Department, The College of Santa Fe, New Mexico, fall 2003 to
June 2005.
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Assistant Professor (Visiting) of English,
Department of English, Ursinus College,
Collegeville, Pennsylvania, fall 2000 to spring 2003
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Assistant Professor,
Department of English & Philosophy, New Mexico Highlands University,Las
Vegas, New Mexico, fall 1996 to spring 2000
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Director,
The NMHU
Writing Center, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico,
fall 1996 to spring 2000
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Overseas English Teacher.
Grades 3-8, Swaziland, 1993-1995
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Adjunct Faculty/Teaching Advisor
(TEAD), University of Arizona, Tucson, 1990-1992
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Graduate Assistant in
Teaching (GAT), University of
Arizona, Tucson, Fall 1987-Fall 1989
PUBLICATIONS
Poetry
Books
Each and
Her (a book-length poem).
Forthcoming from University of Arizona Press, fall 2010.
And They
Called It Horizon (poems
about Santa Fe). Forthcoming from Sunstone Press, 2010.
This is
How it Began (long poem).
Forthcoming in special edition by Palace Press, 2010.
A Flock
of Scarlet Doves: Translations of Uruguay’s Delmira Agustini
(translations from the Spanish).
Sutton Hoo Press, 2005.
World to
World (poems). University of
Arizona Press, September 2004.
Absence,
Luminescent (poems). Winner
of the Larry Levis Prize and a Greenwall Grant
from the Academy of American Poets. Marshfield: Four Way Books,
1999.
Anthologies
JUNTA:
Contemporary Latino/a Writing of the Avant Garde:
excerpt from Each and Her (a
book-length poem in-progress). Ed. Gabriel Gomez. University of Notre
Dame Press, forthcoming in 2010.
Santa Fe
Nativa: Hispana/o Voices for a NEW Mexico, A Cuartocentenario
Anthology: excerpt from “And
They Called it Horizon.” University of New Mexico Press, 2009.
Return
of the River: Writers, Scholars and Citizens Speak on Behalf of the
Santa Fe River. Poem “Blue
Winding, Blue Way.” Sunstone Press, May 2008.
Crossings: Origins and Celebrations of Día de Muertos.
Poem “On the Road to Mictlán.” Eds. Catalina Delgado Trunk and Shelle
Van Etten de Sánchez. National Hispanic Cultural Center, 2008.
Poems:
Dreams for the Railyard Park.
Poem “Days Like This.” The Trust for Public Land, September 2008.
Efforts
and Affections: Contemporary Poets and Their Mentors:
essay “Mapping the Next World” (about
Joy Harjo) and poems by Martínez and Harjo. Eds. Rachel Zucker and
Arielle Greenberg. University of Iowa Press, 2008.
Metamorfosis: Voces femininas, palabras español.
Poem: "El mundo al mundo." Instituto
Cervantes con el Centro Nacional de la Cultura Hispana. March, 2008
Just
Outside the Frame: poems
“Palenque” and “Girl.” Edited by Miriam Bobkoff & Miriam Sagan. Tres
Chicas Books, 2005.
Shine on
You Crazy Diamond: Poems by Teens and Their Mentors:
poems “Four from the Body” and “Winter
Tableau.” Sunstone Press, 2004.
Renaming
Ecstasy: Latino Writings on the Sacred:
poems: “The Annunciation,” “Tesoro,”
“Invocation,” “O Story of Influence,” “Heat of Breath.” Bilingual
Press, December 2002.
New
American Poetry: A Bread Loaf Anthology.
“Camera Obscura” and “Ever So, Between.” University of New England
Press, 2000.
American
Poetry: Next Generation.
“Coastal” and “Into the Next One.” Carnegie Mellon Press, 2000.
Touching
the Fire: Fifteen Poets of Today’s Latino Renaissance.
Ten poems. New York: Doubleday, 1998.
The Best
American Poetry, 1996. “Into
the Next One.” New York: Scribner, 1996.
Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Writing by Native Women
of North America.
Assistant Editor. New York: Norton & Norton, 1997.
Poetry and Translations in Journals, Books, and Magazines
Santa Fe
400th Commemoration.
“Listen.” Sunstone Press, 2010.
American
Poetry Review. Excerpt from
new book manuscript, Each and Her, August/September, 2008.
Breach
Press: A Journal of Experimental Latino Poetry,
excerpt from Each and Her, August,
2008.
Mandorla.
Excerpt from Each and Her,
August 2008.
Brindin
Press. Twelve translations of
poems by Delmira Agustini. www.brindin.com, 2008.
Santa Fe
Broadside, Spring Anthology, Part II.
“Palenque,” “Girl,” and “Sweep.” Issue
#37, May 2004 (http://sfpoetry.org/may2004).
Heliotrope: “Is it the Sun”
and “Anecdote.” Spring, 2004.
Notre
Dame Review: “Heritage” and
“Hollow Where You Are.” Spring, 2004
World
Order: Religion, Society, Polity, Arts.
“Aureole,” “The Eye of Earth,” “Bowl,”
“Nude,” “World to World,” “Heat of Breath.” Summer, 2002.
The
Drunken Boat. Introduction
to the work of Delmira Agustini, and six poems and translations: “The
Poet and Illusion/El poeta y la ilusión,” “Untitled/Debout sur mon
orgueil…,” “Nocturne/Nocturno,” “Immutable/Lo inefable,” “Intimate/Intima,”
and “Your Mouth/Tu boca.” Spring 2002 (www.thedrunkenboat.com,
ed. Sieferle and Todd).
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review.
“Invocation,” “Its Happening,” Spring
2002.
Poet’s
Market (Writers Digest
Books). Excerpt from “And Seeing It” used as an example of the kind of
poetry published by Puerto del Sol, 2001 and 2002 editions.
Drunken
Boat. Introduction to Delmira Agustini and translations: “Weighing
the Anchor,” “Prayer,”
“My
Sad Muse,” “In the Light of the Moon,” “Explosion,”“The Knot,” Fall 2001
(www.drunkenboat.com,
ed. Ravi Shankar).
Solo.
“Behold,” Fall, 2001.
Luna.
Translations
of Delmira Agustini: “You Were Sleeping,” “The Ineffable,” “The Swan,”
“Oh, You!” “Shrouded in Pride…” Spring 2001.
Orizon.
“So We Will Hush” and “In a
Universe This Vast.” Fall, 2000.
New
Mexico Culture Net, poems,
translations, bio, artist’s statement, middle & high school curricula,
review of Absence, Luminescent; summer 2000 (www.nmculturenet.org).
The
Colorado Review. “I See, I
Am.” Spring 2000.
The Agni
Review. “The Angels of
Reason” and “Late in the Century.” Spring 2000.
Luna.
“Not Unlike” and “Where the Air is Thick.” Volume I, Issue 2. Spring
2000.
Amigos
Bravos: Friends of the Wild Rivers.
“River Ode.” September, 1999.
New
Mexico Vehicle Project.
“Wealth.” On public buses in Albuquerque, Santa Fe,
Las Cruces, and Taos, New Mexico, starting in 1999.
Confluence. Translations of
Agustini: “Vision/Visión” and “Dedication/Ofredando al libro” .
Spring, 1999.
The
Bloomsbury Review, “To the
Wind That Blew All Night…” July/August, 1999.
Confluence. “Meridian,” “Into
the Next One,” “Pastorale” and “Coastal.” Fall, 1998.
Permafrost. “The Annunciation”
and “On Absence.” Fall, 1996.
(Prairie
Schooner. “It is Not,” “Absence, Luminescent,” “Nocturne” and
“Tesoro.”
Winter, 1994.
Puerto del Sol. “And Seeing It.”
Winter, 1993.
Prairie Schooner. “Prayer” and
“Outside: Winter Solstice.” Fall, 1993.
Parnassus: Poetry in Review.
“Night of Fathers.” Vol. 17, No. 1, 1992.
Riverrun. “The Little Number.”
Fall, 1991.
Rhetoric Review. “Savor, Harvest,”
“Geode,” and translations of Miguel Mendez.
Winter, 1988.
Vassar Review. “Death Valley” and
“Wordless.” Fall/Winter, 1982.
Nonfiction/Essays/Articles
Books
Lines &
Circles: A Celebration of Santa Fe Families.
Editor and Artistic Director of the Exhibition. Sunstone Press,
2010.
Nonfiction/Essays/Articles in Journals, Books, and
Magazines
“Lines and
Circles: Understanding Contemporary Santa Fe” in Lines & Circles: A
Celebration of Santa Fe Families. Sunstone Press, 2010.
“Diversity,
Understanding, and Reconciliation in Santa Fe.” Sustainable Santa Fe
Resource Guide, November 1, 2008 (English version) and La Voz de
Nuevo Mexico (Spanish version). March 28, 2008.
“Learning
About Legacy: OSH Internship Program.” The Quarterly Newsletter of
the Friends of New Mexico History Foundation. Winter 2008.
“Living
History: Learning With Purpose.” Vistas (the alumni magazine of
the College of Santa Fe.) Fall 2007.
“Mapping
the Next World” (about Joy Harjo). Efforts and Affections:
Contemporary Poets and Their Mentors: U. of Iowa Press, 2008.
“Sacred
Image, Sacred Language: Where Modern and Postmodern Meet.” Tiferet..
February 2004.
“Delmira
Agustini.” The Drunken Boat. (www.thedrunkenboat.com)
Spring 2002.
“Missing
Link: The Necessity of Poetry in the Composition Classroom.”
Writing on the Edge, Spring 2002. “Lilies of the Flesh: The Poetry
of Delmira Agustini.” Drunken Boat:
www.drunkenboat.com, Fall
2001.
“From Water
Into Air: Latina Poetry at the End of the Twentieth Century.” New
Mexico Culture Net:
www.nmculturenet.com, Fall
2000 and Spring 2001
Theater/Exhibitions/Film/Opera/Creative Collaboration
Artistic
Director/Curator.
Lines & Circles—A Celebration of Santa Fe Families.
This project brought together three and four generations of eleven Santa Fe families
over 18 months to compose/create a unique family “work” (story, short film, photograph,
woodwork, quilt, sculpture, pottery, recording, etc.) and original poem. Sponsored by
the City of Santa Fe, the Lannan Foundation, and Littleglobe.
Click on "Poet Laureate" to learn more.
Core
Artist, Littleglobe, Inc..
Littleglobe exists to create collaborative art, nurture community
capacity, and foster life-affirming connections across the boundaries
that divide us. Recent
projects/performances:
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Open Books, a poetry and art project for youth, ages
16-21 in foster care placement and/or independent living programs
with the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD).
June-December, 2010.
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ROUTE/RUTA: A Santa Fe Bus Opera,
an interactive, inter-media new opera-in-motion that will premiere
on active city bus lines. Librettist.
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What
Will You Remember?, a composed and improvisational
spoken-word/poetry performance with Lauren Camp, Jasmine Cuffee, and
Jamie Figueroa in response to the Form and Function exhibit
(Julia Barello, Cal Lane, Roberto Gallegos, Beth Rekow and others)
at 516 Arts, March 27, 2010. Poet and performer.
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SALVE:
Women on War and Warriorship,
a composed and improvisational music and spoken word performance
piece that investigates women’s personal insights into the internal
experiences of war and warriorship (2009 & 2010). Librettist and
performer.
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Common Ground Festival Performance,
a multi-media performance by an
inter-generational ensemble (ages 5-80) of community residents from
the Cuba, Ojo Encino, and Torreon, New Mexico (2008). Librettist
and Stage Manager.
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“Memorylines: Santa Fe: Voces de Nuestras Jornadas”
a new opera performance commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera as part
of its 50th anniversary celebration. Created through
intensive ensemble work by a diverse artist team and Santa Fe
community residents. Librettist and performer.
Artistic
Director/Poet/Performer.
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Ekphrastic Performance in
response to “Form & Function,” a group exhibition featuring the
work of artists and designers who explore sustainability, reuse,
decoration, tradition and innovation. With poets Jasmine Cuffee,
Jamie Figueroa, and Lauren Camp. 516 Arts, Albuquerque, March 27,
2010.
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Ekphrastic Performance in
response to “Capitalism: Fueled by Envy and Greed” by
sheri crider. This poetry/spoken word/musical/improvisational
performance, by poets and spoken word artists Valerie Martínez,
Maureen Seaton, and Jasmine Cuffee, is a response to sheri crider’s
installation, of the same name, which includes a scale replica of a
section of a 1946 Albuquerque home constructed with materials
(destined for landfills) culled from local construction sites.
Poet/Performer, A Tribute
to Gerard Manley Hopkins. Poets, Dancers, Musicians and Artists
respond to poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Theaterwork. December 18 &
19, 2009, James A. Little Theater, Santa Fe.
Playwright, “Heart of the
Goddess of Corn,” a one act play. Staged readings March 8, 2008,
National Hispanic Cultural Center; March 17, 2007, Southwest
Playwrights Festival; March 1, 2006, Greer Garson Theater,
Santa Fe.
Contributor/Collaborator,
Poems and Pics: A traveling exhibit and anthology. This exhibit was
organized by the Institute of Latino Studies and granted a 2005 NEA
project grant. The exhibit features the work of 10 Latino/a poets
alongside the work of 10 Latino/a artists, culminating in the
publication of an anthology. Valerie Martínez’s poem, “Invocation,” is
paired with a painting by Kathy Vargas. The exhibit has or will visit
New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Albuquerque (the National Hispanic
Center) and other cities.
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS
Sage
Magazine Award/Albuquerque Journal for “Twenty Women Making a
Difference,” November 2009. Other awardees: Lt. Governor Diane Denish;
NM Senator Cynthia Nava; LaDonna Hopkins. V.P. of NM United Way; Nancy
Youngblood, Santa Clara Potter; Dr. Cheryl Willman, Director of the UNM
Cancer Center.
Poem
“September, 2001” chosen for the Washington Post, Poet’s Choice feature
and appeared in the online issue of the Post on September 13, 2009.
Appointed
Poet Laureate of the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 2008.
Poem
“Bowl” (from World to World, University of Arizona Press,
2004) selected for the Poetry Everywhere short
film/animation series, created by the Poetry Foundation,
premiering in 2009. The series features “animated interpretations of
great contemporary poems” that will be “shown to millions of viewers on
public transportation systems in six American cities.” (http://poetryfoundation.org/journal/video.html)
Nominated for a USA Fellowship for Each and Her, 2007.
Finalist,
The Green Rose Prize, New
Issues Press, for World to World, 2001.
Finalist,
The Journal Award, Ohio
State University Press, for World to World, 2001.
The Book
Sense 76, Absence,
Luminescent listed as a
featured book selection, Spring 2000.
Greenwall Grant, The Academy
of American Poets, for Absence, Luminescent, 1999.
Finalist,
Bunting Fellowship (Radcliffe
College), 1999.
Pushcart
Prize nomination, for the
poem “Meridian,” 1998.
The
Larry Levis Prize, for
Absence, Luminescent, 1997.
Finalist,
Intro Award Competition, for Absence, Luminescent, 1996
Finalist,
the Walt Whitman Award, for Absence, Luminescent, 1995.
Finalist,
the National Poetry Series, for Absence, Luminescent,
1990.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Littleglobe
A variety of workshops in creative
engagement with communities—writing, movement, film, visual arts, music,
spoken word, especially with youth and families, intergenerational
collaborations.
The College of
Santa Fe
Introduction to Creative Writing
Masterpieces of American Literature
Intermediate Poetry Workshop
Nineteenth Century American Literature
Intermediate Creative Nonfiction
Workshop Sr. Level Seminar: Emily Dickinson
Advanced Creative Nonfiction
Workshop & Melville’s Moby Dick
Southwest: Matter, Memory, Imagination
(interdisciplinary)
Freshman Interdisciplinary MAP Core Classes
(team taught):
The American Southwest:
(Humanities, Science, Freshman Composition)
Beauty (Humanities, Art,
Freshman Composition)
Living History Internship
The University of New Mexico
Intermediate Poetry
Workshop
Advanced Poetry Workshop
Ursinus College
Poetry Writing
I Women’s
Literature
Poetry Writing
II Creative
Nonfiction
Advanced Creative
Writing Advanced Expository
Writing
Twentieth Century Poetry &
Poetics Freshman Composition
Global, Postmodern
Poetry Native American
Women’s Literature
Honors Projects in Poetry
New Mexico
Highlands University
Graduate
Creative Writing: Advanced Poetry I
Creative Writing: Advanced Poetry II
Major American Poets
Methods of Tutoring & Teaching Writing
Undergraduate
Creative Writing: Poetry
I Native American Women’s
Literature
Creative Writing: Poetry
II Contemporary Latino
Literature
Introduction to
Poetry
Freshman Composition (all levels)
Basic Reading & Writing
University of New Mexico
Creative Writing: Poetry
University
of Arizona
Introduction to
Poetry
Freshman Composition I
Technical
Writing Freshman
Composition II
Honors
Composition
Developmental Reading & Writing
PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
Important
Papers and Presentations
“When Your Story Becomes My
Story: Image-Based Teaching and Learning” Picturing America: The Human
Connection. A symposium as part of the National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) initiative of the same name. In this session,
participants will engage deeply with two images from the Picturing
America Gallery, e.g. “Ladder for Booker T. Washington” (Puryear)
and “Freedom of Speech” (Rockwell,) through a series of “storytelling”
exercises. Fall 2010, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
“Write the Relationship,”
Panel Presentation, Associated Writing Programs (AWP), April 2010,
Denver. (Panel description: “How do poetic friendships help us to
enhance and to grow our work? Two sets of friends and our moderator
will examine their own relationships and those of other literary pairs
to reveal the impact, dynamics, and consequences of writerly
entanglements.”)
"Border
Crossings: Women Writing the West Across Genres." (E.J. Levy, Sawnie
Morris, Summer Wood, Valerie Martinez) This panel will focus on how
women writers working in multiple genres narrate the iconic landscape of
the American West: how are women rewriting a terrain often associated
with masculinity? Panelist will look at the formal and thematic
possibilities and challenges posed by place—including brief readings and
discussion of how work can be launched by attention to the peculiar
features of this landscape (borders, nuclear waste, water) and how place
informs and inspires poetry, essay, and fiction. AWP Conference, Denver,
April 2010.
“Creative
Voices: Writers as the Custodians of Memory.” National Hispanic
Leadership Institute Conference, Albuquerque, Nov. 5, 2009.
“Mira la Mirror: Mexican
and Mexican-American Poetry and the National Divide.” Latino Poetry
Review, Fall 2009.
“Sibling Rivalries: Spoken
and Written Word Poetry and the Literary Tug-of-War.” A Panel
Presentation, Associated Writing Programs (AWP), February 2009 and April
8, 2008, College of Santa Fe.
“Contemporary Latino/a Poetry
and the Avant Garde.” Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Conference,
January/February, 2008, New York City.
“A Blue School in a Red
State: Generating Tension in the Creative Writing Paradigm.” Associated
Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, March 2006, Austin, TX.
“Mira la Mirror: Mexican and
Mexican-American Poetry and the National Divide.” MELUS Conference
(Society for the Multi-Ethnic Languages of the United States). San
Antonio, TX, March 10-14, 2004.
“Sacred Image, Sacred
Language: Where Modern and Postmodern Meet.” College of Santa Fe
Faculty Lecture Series, February, 2004.
“To Be
Self-Evident: An Artists’ Roundtable Discussion.” A discussion by
Valerie Martínez (poet), Donald Camp (photographer), Domenick Scudera
(theater artist); Martha McDonald (performance artist), Helen Mirkil
(painter), Susan Shifrin (Berman Museum curator of education) about the
ways in which artists engage with the performance of identity in the
visual, literary, and performing arts. Berman Museum, Collegeville, PA,
March 21, 2003.
“Sacred
Image, Sacred Language: Where Modern and Postmodern Meet.”
Associated Writing Programs Conference, Baltimore, MD, February 27,
2003.
“On the
Shoulders of Giants: New Latino Poetry.” Festival of the Narrative
Arts Conference, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM,
August 10, 2002.
“Giving
Poems a Voice” and “Poetry and the Body.” Presentations/Workshops at
the Clearing the Spring, Tending the Fountain Conference, The
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey. May 11, 2002.
“The Boom
and Beyond: A Revolution of Words.” Keynote address for the Periodo
de Transición: The Boom in Contemporary Latin American Literature
Conference. Mankato State University, Mankato, Minnesota. April
5-6, 2001.
“Missing
Link: The Necessity of Poetry in the Composition Classroom.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, April 14, 2000. Panel: “The Poetic Lens: Re-Imagining
Student Writing.”
Faculty Research/Presentation/Travel Grants
“From Water Into Air: Latina
Poetry at the Edge of the Twentieth Century,” at Bookworks,
Albuquerque, August 1, 1999; the Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos,
New Mexico, April 25, 1999; the Literatures of the Southwest
Symposium, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico,
April, 1998; and the Emerging Literature of the Southwest
Conference, University of Texas/El Paso, El Paso, Texas, November, 1997.
“Contemporary
Latino/a Poetry and the Avant Garde.” Associated Writing Programs (AWP)
Conference, January/February, 2008, New York City. Awarded $617 for
travel and reading/presentation. College of Santa Fe.
“A Blue School in
a Red State: Generating Tension in the Creative Writing Paradigm.”
Associated Writing
Programs (AWP) Conference, March 2006, Austin, TX. Awarded $513
for travel and panel presentation. College of Santa Fe.
“Sacred
Image, Sacred Language: Where Modern and Postmodern Meet.”
Associated Writing Programs Conference, Baltimore, MD, February 27,
2003. Awarded $500.00 for research, scholarly work, and conference
paper/presentation. Ursinus College.
“On the
Shoulders of Giants: New Latino Poetry.” Festival of the Narrative
Arts Conference, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM,
August 10, 2002. Awarded $500.00 for research, scholarly work and
conference paper/presentation. Ursinus College.
“The Boom
and Beyond: A Revolution of Words.” Keynote address for the Periodo
de Transición: The Boom in Contemporary Latin American Literature
Conference. Mankato State University, Mankato, Minnesota. April
5-6, 2001. Awarded $500.00 for research, scholarly work and conference
paper/presentation. Ursinus College.
“The
Naranjo Saga.” Research for an historical novel from screenplay.
Awarded $1003.00 for “direct research, scholarly, or creative activity”
by New Mexico Highlands University. Fall, 1998.
“Poems
in Translation: The Work of Uruguay’s Delmira Agustini.” Awarded
$1000.00 for
“direct research,
scholarly, or creative activity” by New Mexico Highlands University.
Fall, 1997.
“The Line,
the Circle, and the Spiral: Portfolios in the Multicultural Classroom”
Awarded $500.00 to “travel to disseminate the results of research,
scholarly, and creative activity” by New Mexico Highlands University.
Fall, 1996.
Selected
Workshops
The
Letter: The Visual Poetics of Written Correspondence,
a letter-writing experience with visual
artist Gary Meyers in response to “Beyond Our Shores” (paintings by
Georgia O’Keeffe) and the world premiere of the new opera, “The Letter”
(Paul Morevic). July 23, 2009. Sponsors: The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
and the Santa Fe Opera.
On the
Brink: Writing the Unpredictable Poem
at the National Latino Writers
Conference, May 21, 2009.
Snapshots: The Art of Identity and Writing the Self,
National Latino Writers Conference, May
22, 2009 and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, November 18, 2008.
“Writing
Santa Fe,” International
Creative Tourism Conference, Santa Fe, September 29, 2008.
“Integrating Poetry Into Life,”
STIR: A Festival of Words,” September
13, 2008, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque.
“The
Centrifugal Poem,” Taos Summer
Writer’s Conference, July 14-18, 2008, a week-long workshop designed for
intermediate and advanced poets who wanted to infuse their work with new
energy.
Metamorphosis: Bookmaking and Poetry.
An afternoon workshop for teens. Southside Public Library, Santa Fe,
June 9, 2008.
“Give and Get Give: The
Creative Writing Workshop” A three-day writing workshop for New
Mexico teens and young adults, as part of the Voces program (for
New Mexico high school students), sponsored by the National Hispanic
Cultural Center. June 2007 & 2008, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
“Creative
Openings.” A three-day writing workshop for New Mexico teens and
young adults, as part of the Voces program (for New Mexico high
school students), sponsored by the National Hispanic Cultural Center.
June 27, 28, 29, 2006, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
“Taking the
Stage.” A workshop for women wanting to translate their poetry and
prose into plays. With Elsa Menendez and Monica Sanchez. Part of
Women and Creativity Week, March 2006, Albuquerque.
“How to
Teach a Poem (and Urge Your Students to Fall in Love with Poetry).” A
Poetry Workshop/In-Service Training for Santa Fe High and Capital High
English teachers. October 11, 2004, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
“The
Creative Process.” Panel presentation for the Las Vegas Carnegie Public
Library Benefit, with New Mexico authors Johnny D. Boggs, Walter
Satterthwait, Ralph M. Flores, Robert J. Torrez, Nasario Garcia, Neecy
Twinem, Michael McGarrity, Judith Van Gieson, V. B. Price, and John
Wilson. November 12, 2004, Las Vegas, New Mexico.
“Writing
Your Family, Writing Yourself.” A four-week community writing course
for Santa Fe adult learners. March and April,
2004.
“Alter-Egos: The Poetry of Strange Beings and Strange Things.” A
poetry workshop for high school poets. New Mexico 2004 Poetry Jam—a
poetry conference for New Mexico high school poets and their
teachers.
“Who’s
Afraid of Emily Dickinson?” A poetry presentation/workshop for parents
of College of Santa Fe students. Fiesta (Parents) Weekend, Saturday
October 4, 2003.
“Keeping a
Journal: The Art of Inspiration and Self-Reflection.” A workshop which
examines excerpts from journals by well-known artists, writers, and
travelers and introduces creative strategies for starting and keeping a
personal journal. Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council as
part of the Commonwealth Speakers Program. Schoolhouse Senior
Center, Folsom, PA, October 23,
2002.
“Clearing
the Spring, Tending the Fountain.” Six, weekly poetry workshops for New
Jersey teachers, sponsored by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.
Haddonfield Memorial High School, March 2001; Appel Arts Center, March
2002; Lenape High School, March 2003.
Special Events
Judge,
Poetry Out Loud National Finals,
Washington, D.C., April 27, 2010 with John Leguizamo, Garrison Keillor,
Alfre Woodard, Adam Kirsch, Jane Shore and William Farley (winner of the
2009 POL competition).
This national program, in its
fifth year, involves coaching students to recite classic and
contemporary poems. The structure is much like the National Spelling
Bee: 300,000 High school students from more than 1,500 schools in all
fifty states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of
Columbia compete at the local, regional, and state level to win a spot
in the National Finals. Sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and the
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
Co-Coordinator, Women and Creativity Month, 2009 and 2010. Women and
Creativity is a
month-long series of events that celebrates women’s creativity across
the disciplines. Organized by the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC)
in collaboration with over a dozen local and regional partners and
organizations, events take place during the month of March in
Albuquerque and Santa Fe in theatres, galleries, performance spaces,
retail businesses, museums, parks, neighborhoods, and other venues.
Organizer and M.C: The 1st,
2nd, 3rd & 4th Annual College of Santa Fe “Poem-Palooza,”
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 featuring readings by college, local, regional
and high school student-poets, dance-poetry, film-poetry,
theater-poetry, and Dead Poets (Faculty) Impersonations. Also College
of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM.
Organizer and M.C: The
First, Second and Third Annual Ursinus “Poem-Palooza,” fall 2000, 2002,
and 2002, featuring readings by Ursinus student-poets, audio and visual
poetry, performance poetry, a student poetry slam and the Dead Poets
(Faculty) Slam. Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA.
Artist/Poet: “if we lift the
veil and what will we see and then will the mourning…:” a poetry and art
installation, for quiet contemplation, in memory of September 11, 2001.
On display September 9-September 13, 2002, Ursinus College,
Collegeville, PA.
Organizer and M.C: The
First, Second, and Third Annual NMHU Poetry Slams (1998, 1999, 2000),
featuring readings by Highlands student-poets, audio and visual poetry,
a student poetry slam and the Dead Poets (Faculty) Slam. New Mexico
Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM.
Selected Recent Readings
(1998-2009)--also see Valerie's reading & events as Santa Fe Poet
Laureate (click on "Poet Laureate" at left)
WordStream Writers' Series. Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, April
16, 2010.
Santa
Fe Arts Commission/Palace Press. A Farewell Reading as Santa
Fe Poet Laureate. Arts Commission Community Gallery, Santa Fe,
March 17, 2010.
A Tribute
to Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Theaterwork. James A. Little Theater, Santa Fe, December 18, 2009.
Burque
Poetico, with Columbian poet
Armando Romero. Roundtable discussion of Latino Poetry in the
Contemporary World, Cervantes Institute, Nov. 6, 2009.
Dia de
los Muertos Community Celebration,
National Hispanic Cultural Center, Oct. 30, 2009.
SCA
Contemporary Art, Ekphrastic
Performance in response to sheri crider’s “Capitalism: Fueled by Envy
and Greed,” SCA Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, March 27, 2009.
Women &
Creativity Month, 2009,
Recursos de Santa Fe, Santa Fe, March 25, 2009
Palabra
Pura: One Poem Festival,
Chicago, IL, February 13, 2009.
Women
Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections,
Associated Writing Programs Conference,
Chicago,February 2009.
First
National Bank of Santa Fe (sponsor of the Santa Fe Poet Laureate Program), November 20,
2008.
ArtWorks,
November 10, 2008.
Santa Fe
Institute 25th Anniversary Gala,
November 8, 2008.
Visions
of Africa, Benefit for Orphans of Rwanda, 222 Shelby Street Gallery, October 12,
2008
Center
for the Contemporary Arts (CCA),
September 25, 2008.
Grand
Opening of the Santa Fe Railyard Complex and Farmers Market,
September 13, 2008.
Poetry
and Jazz, hosted by the SW Jazz Orchestra, Santa Fe, June 17, 2008
University of New Mexico Poets & Writers Series,
Albuquerque, April 18, 2008
Women &
Creativity Week. "Dear Adrienne," An homage to Adrienne Rich,
Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 4, 2008
Brooklyn
College, New York City,
January 30, 2008
First
Print Series, College of Santa
Fe, February 13, 2007
University of Notre Dame,
South Bend, Indiana, October 30, 2007, sponsored by the Institute for
Latino Studies and the University of Notre Dame Press.
Los
Desaparecidos Project/Santa Fe Arts Institute (SFAI),
“Innovation and the Latino Voice,” Santa Fe, October 26, 2007.
Woodland
Pattern Book Center,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 11, 2007
S.O.M.O.S.
Winter Series, Taos, New
Mexico, January 19, 2007.
Dia de
los Muertos Celebration, El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, Nov. 3, 2006
North East
School for the Arts, San Antonio, Texas, October 26, 2006
Poetry
Jam, Lensic Theater, Santa
Fe, April 7, 2006, with New Mexico high school poets
“Poetry
Santa Fe,” The Associated Writing Programs Conference, Austin, Texas,
March 9, 2006
Talking
Bridge Gallery & Café, Madrid, New Mexico, August 5, 2005
Poetry
Alive!, New Mexico Culture Net, Santa Fe, May 5, 2005
First Print
Reading Series, College of Santa Fe, February 10, 2005
Amigos
Bravos (Friends of the Wild Rivers) Benefit, November 9, 2004
National
Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM, October 28, 2004.
Tome on the
Range Bookstore, Las Vegas, NM, October 15, 2004.
Poet’s
Night: Collected Works Bookstore, Santa Fe, July 13, 2004 (with Miriam
Sagan).
“Women’s
Focus” with Carol Boss. KUNM Radio 89.9 FM, June 26, 2004.
Poetic
Justice: Poets and Musicians Celebrate Freedom of Speech in a Time of
War. Santa Fe, Saturday May 8, 2004.
First Print
Series, The College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, September 30, 2003.
Berman
Museum of Art, “Works in Progress Series.” Sponsored by the Mellon
Works-in-Progress Grant. Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA, March 25,
2003.
Myrin
Library: “Meet the Poets” Series, Collegeville, PA, December 6, 2002
Geraldine
R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Waterloo, NJ, September 22, 2002
Barnes &
Noble Writers Series, Devon, PA, September 19, 2002
Festival of
the Narrative Arts, Las Vegas, NM, August 10, 2002
Cumberland
Poetry Festival, Elmer, NJ, April 26, 2002.
Millburn
Poetry Festival, Millburn, NJ, April 16, 2002.
Laughing
Hermits Reading Series, Kelly Writers’ House, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, October 20, 2001.
Good
Thunder Reading Series, Mankato State University, Mankato, MN, March 7,
2001.
Visiting
Writers Series, Richard Stockton College, Ocean City, NJ, February 9,
2001.
Grand
Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, March 21, 2000
College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, March 9, 2000
Ursinus
College, Collegeville, PA, February 15, 2000
Bucknell
University, Lewisburg, PA, February 22, 2000
Society of
the Muse of the Southwest (SOMOS), Taos, NM, February 4, 2000
Four Way
Books & Marlboro Review Benefit, Boston, MA, November 7, 1999
Wheaton
College, Wheaton, MA, November 9, 1999
Share Our
Strength (SOS), Las Cruces, NM, October 22, 1999
Railyard
Books, Santa Fe, NM, October 16, 1999
National
Women’s Studies Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM, June 18, 1999
CCS Reading
Series, New York, NY, May 16, 1999
Borders
Books & Music, Bryn Mawr, PA, May 15, 1999
Associated
Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, Albany, NY, April 15-16, 1999
Southwest
Research/Dia de los Muertos Celebration, Albuquerrque, NM, October 20,
1998
Amigos
Bravos/Friend of the Wild Rivers Benefit, Taos, NM, September 19, 1998
Expressions
of the Spirit, R.C. Gorman Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, April, 1998
Page One
Books, Albuquerque, NM, April, 1998
Academic Service (2000-2009)
College
of Santa Fe
Assistant Chair: Department
of Creative Writing and Literature, 2006-2008
Director
of Interdisciplinary Studies:
Department of Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies
Intern
Coordinator, Service Learning
Student Internship Program, a collaboration (funded by the New Mexico
State Legislature) between CSF and the Office of the New Mexico State
Historian
Curriculum Committee
(2004-2007)
Interdisciplinary Studies Committee
CSF
Hispanic Youth Leadership Institute
(institute scheduled for summer 2007)
Strategic
Task Force: Service Learning
Diversity
Committee
Coordinator, Collaborative Programs:
National Hispanic Cultural Center, State Historian’s Office, Dia de los
libros/NM Office of Cultural Affairs, Recursos de Santa Fe, New Mexico
CultureNet,
Santa Fe
Public Schools, Women’s Voices International, Cervantes Institute
Presenter: “What is MAPs All
About?” Guest Speaker for First Year Seminar Students?
Chair,
First Year Seminar Committee (2004-2005)
Creator
and Coordinator: New
Southwest Interdisciplinary and Humanities Majors, CSF
Guest
Speaker (with Mark Behr and
Matt Donovan): KTRC Radio 1260 AM. “Arts Tour” with Arin McKenna. To
promote the CSF First Print Reading Series and Creative Writing Program,
September 9, 2004.
Liberal
Arts Committee (2004-2005)
Academic
Advisor (2003-2008)
Guest
Speaker: KTRC Radio 1260
AM. “Arts Tour” with Arin McKenna. To promote the College of Santa Fe
Faculty Lecture Series, February 9, 2004.
Chair,
Search Committee:
Tenure-Track Position in Religion Studies, Humanities Department.
Spring, 2004.
Connecting Staff and Faculty
(2003-2004)
Presenter: “Who’s Afraid of
Emily Dickinson?” A poetry presentation for parents of College of Santa
Fe students. Fiesta (Parents) Weekend, Saturday October 4, 2003.
Ursinus
College
Faculty
Advisor: The Lantern (Ursinus
literary magazine)
Faculty
Advisor: From the Belly
(Ursinus women’s journal)
September
11, 2001: Re-imagining the Future: Advisory Board Member
Diversity Committee,
2002-2003
Freshman
Advisor: 2000-2003
Summer
Fellows Advisor: 2001-2003
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
PEN
The Academy
of American Poets (AAP)
The
Associated Writing Programs (AWP)
Hispanic
Association of Colleges and University (HACU)
Academics
for a Democratic Society (ADS)
National
Women’s History Museum (Charter Member)
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Judge,
Andrés Montoya Prize,
Momotombo Press, Institute for Latino Studies, Notre Dame
Manuscript Reviewer, University of Arizona Press.
2003-2005
Judge,
Chicano/Latino Literary Prize, 2005.
University of California/Irvine, 2005.
President, Advisory Board: New Mexico CultureNet,
promoting the diverse cultures of New
Mexico by connecting people, ideas, and resources (www.nmculturenet.org).
Important projects: Poets-in-the-Schools (PITS) program, Poetry Jam (a
three-day series of workshop and performances for and by high school
poets), Arts Calendar, Artist Directory, “Living Portraits”—video
portraits of Native New Mexico artists.
Poetry
Fellow, Geraldine R. Dodge
Foundation, conducting poetry workshops and day residencies in the
following New Jersey public schools and locations,
2001-2003: Haddonfield High School (Spring 2001); Sterling High School
(spring 2001); Glassboro High School (winter 2002), Appel Farm Arts and
Cultural Center (spring 2002); Schalick High School (spring 2002);
Haddonfield High School (spring 2002); Millburn High School (spring
2002); Cumberland High School (spring 2002), Woodstown High School
(spring 2002), and Summit High School (winter 2003).
Commonwealth Speaker,
Pennsylvania Council for the Humanities (PCH), 2002-2003.
Faculty
(Poetry): Winter Prose and
Poetry Getaway : A Writers’ Conference). Cape May, New Jersey.
January 12-15, 2001, January 18-21, 2002, January 17-19, 2003.
Judge:
Webslams III-IX: on online
poetry competition between student-poets at high schools in New
Mexico. Sponsored by New Mexico Culture Net:
www.nmculturenet.org. Fall
2000, Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006.
Workshop
Facilitator: “The World’s
Largest Writing Workshop,” sponsored by Writer’s Digest Books and Barnes
& Noble Bookstores. Devon, PA, October 4, 2001.
Speaker.
New Mexico Endowment for the
Humanities (NMEH), 2000.
Poet-In-Residence, West Las
Vegas Public Schools, Grades 7 and 12. Las Vegas, New Mexico, Spring
2000.
Poet-In-Residence, Grand
Rapids Art Museum, March, 2000
Poet-In-Residence, Wheaton
College, November 8-11, 1999
Poet-In-Residence, New Mexico
State University, October 22-23, 1999
Teacher
Trainer, Arts Education:
for elementary, middle
school, and high school teacher. West Las Vegas Public Schools.
August-September, 1999.
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