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
Employment

• Executive Director and Core Artist, Littleglobe, Inc. Littleglobe is a New Mexico-based non- profit committed to transformational social change through creative      community engagement. Its mission is to create collaborative art, nurture community capacity, and foster life-affirming connections across the boundaries that divide us (www.littleglobe.org). 2006– present.

• Poet Laureate, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Appointed in March 2008 by the City of Santa Fe. The position encompassed public readings, a body of work about Santa Fe, and educational/community outreach. 2008-2010.

• Poet/Artist in the Schools, Poet/Artist in the Community. (See listings, below). 1992-present.
  Guest Lecturer. University of New Mexico, 2008 and 2010, Institute for American Indian Arts, 2010.

• Associate Professor of English & Creative Writing. Department of Creative Writing & Literature. The College of Santa Fe, Fall 2003-May 2009.
  Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, Creative Writing, Humanities & Interdisciplinary Studies Department (CHI), The College of Santa Fe, 2005 to 2008.

• Assistant Professor of English, Department of English, Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, fall 2000 to spring 2003.

• Assistant Professor, Department of English & Philosophy, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico, fall 1996 to spring 2000.

• Director, Undergraduate Writing Center. New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico, fall 1996 to spring 2000.

• English Teacher. Grades 3-8, Mbabane and Big Bend, Swaziland, 1993-1995.

• Teacher-Trainer, University of Arizona, Dept. of Composition & Rhetoric, Tucson, 1990-1992.

• Graduate Assistant in Teaching (GAT), University of Arizona, Tucson, Fall 1987-Fall 1989.

Awards, Grants, Honors

• Each and Her (by Valerie Martínez). Winner of the 2011 Arizona Book Award for Poetry, Honorable Mention--2011 International Latino Book Awards. Nominated for the PEN Open Book Award, William Carlos William Award, Ron Ridenhour Book Prize, Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. University of Arizona Press, 2010.

• Sage Award/Albuquerque Journal for “Twenty Women Making a Difference,” Other awardees included Lt. Governor Diane Denish; NM Senator Cynthia Nava; LaDonna Hopkins. Vice President of NM United Way; Nancy Youngblood, Santa Clara Potter; Dr. Cheryl Willman, Director of the University of New Mexico Cancer Center. 2009.

• Poem “September, 2001” featured in the Washington Post, September 13, 2009 in memoriam, 9/11.

• 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 Artist Fellowship, 2007.

• Finalist, The Green Rose Prize, New Issues 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.

Publications

POETRY

Books

• And They Called It Horizon. Sunstone Press, 2010.

• Each and Her (a book-length poem). Winner of the 2011 Arizona Book Award for Poetry, Honorable Mention--2011 International Latino Book Awards. Nominated for the PEN Open Book Award, William Carlos William Award, Ron Ridenhour Book Prize, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award. University of Arizona Press, 2010.

• Absence, Luminescent (second edition). Four Way Books, August 2010.

• This is How it Began. Special, hand-press edition, Palace Press, March 2010.

• A Flock of Scarlet Doves: Translations of Uruguay’s Delmira Agustini. Sutton Hoo Press 2005.

• World to World (poems). University of Arizona Press, 2004.

• Absence, Luminescent. Winner of the Larry Levis Prize and a Greenwall Grant from the Academy of American Poets. Four Way Books, 1999.

Selected Anthologies

• All Trails Lead to Santa Fe: An Anthology Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the Founding of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1610: poem “Listen.” Sunstone Press, 2010.

• 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

• 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. “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.

Nonfiction/Essays/Articles/Other
 

Books

• Ask Me Who I Am: Writing and Art by New Mexico CYFD Youth, an anthology of writing and art by youth in foster care, edited by V. Martinez (Project Director, Editor) and Maureen Burdock (Project Artist, Book Designer). December 2010.

• Lines & Circles: A Celebration of Santa Fe Families, featuring history, geneology and essays by Santa Fe families. Edited, with an introductory essay by V. Martinez. (See more, below). Sunstone Press, 2010.

Selected Nonfiction/Essays/Articles in Journals, Books, and Magazines

• “LaChiPo: A Decolonial Poetics” in Breach Press. http://www.breachjournal.com/main.html

• “Lines and Circles: Understanding Contemporary Santa Fe” in Lines & Circles: A Celebration of Santa Fe Families. Sunstone Press, 2010.

• “Diversity, Understanding, and Reconciliation in Community.” Sustainable Santa Fe, November 1, 2008 (English version) and La Voz de Nuevo Mexico (Spanish version). March 28, 2008.

• “Learning About Historical Legacy.” New Mexico History Foundation. Winter 2008.

• “Living History: Learning With Purpose.” Vistas. Fall 2007.
  “Mapping the Next World” (about Joy Harjo). Women Poets and Their Mentors: Effort and Affections. U. of Iowa Press, 2008.

• “Sacred Image, Sacred Language: Where Modern and Postmodern Meet.” Tiferet.. 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.

Performance/Collaboration/Community

Opera/Music/Theater

Artist/Project Director. “Crosstown, A Santa Fe Bus Opera.” Littleglobe, in collaboration with Santa Fe residents and visitors, is creating a new opera that will be performed on and along a public bus route in Santa Fe. The Littleglobe bus opera—created from an in-depth community storytelling process--will delve into the real and imagined stories, interactions, and personal dreamscapes of Santa Feans, comprising a vibrant and collaborative “story” about the capital city and its people. The opera will premiere in October of 2012.

Writer/Project Artist: “Lifesongs.” Lifesongs pairs elders in nursing homes and hospice care, near the end of their lives, with writers and composers. Together, they create original pieces of music that are presented in concert with Young Voices of The Santa Fe Opera; Dolce Suono of the University of New Mexico; Your Song, a threshold choir; musicians and vocalists. A Littleglobe project in partnership with The Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe Cares and Ambercare/Albuquerque. 2010-present.

Writer/Performer: “Salve: Women on War and Warriorship,” a music and spoken word performance piece, based on interviews with returning vets, that investigates women’s personal insights into the internal experiences of war and warriorship. 2009-present.

Project Artist/Librettist. “Memorylines: Voces de Nuestras Jornadas,” a new opera performance commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera as part of its 25th anniversary celebration in 2007. Created through intensive community ensemble work by a diverse artist team and Santa Fe community residents and families, “Memorylines” received rapturous reviews from its audience, testifying to the transformational power of community-generated opera.

Lyricist/Librettist. “400th Symphony,” celebrating the 400th year commemoration of the city of Santa Fe. Composer: Brent Michael Davids. Third movement text by Valerie Martínez, from her long poem, “And They Called It Horizon” (Palace Press and Sunstone Press 2010). World Premiere, October 10, 2010, Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe. New Mexico Symphony Orchestra.

Lyricist/Librettist. “New Mexico Fragments.” Composer: Stephen Bachicha. Text: “New Mexico Fragments,” poem by Valerie Martínez. World Premiere, September 28, 2010, Santa Fe Concert Association, Santa Fe. Performed by: Susanne Mentzner, Soprano.

Project Artist: “Synergy: La Onda de la Palabra/The Wave of the Word.” With artists Cynthia Cook and Catalina Delgado-Trunk in collaboration with client-artists of Artstreet (a program of the City of Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless)—poetry, mixed-media, and spoken word performances in collaboration with those experiencing homelessness or housing instability. The project began in October of 2010 and continues through 2012 when a book about the project will be published. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Artistic Director/Project Director—two projects with youth ages 16-21 in foster care or Independent Living Programs with the New Mexico Department of Children, Youth and Families (CYFD). In 2010 (“Open Books”) Valerie and artist Maureen Burdock engaged youth in creating personal journals/sketchbooks via creative workshops, culminating in a book, Ask Me Who I Am: Writing and Art by New Mexico CYFD Youth (published December 2010). In 2011 (“Artist-to-Artist”), youth are paired with a professional artist or writer as apprentices for ten months, working toward a portfolio of art or chapbook of writing and public presentation of their work.

Artistic/Project Director. “Lines & Circles—A Celebration of Santa Fe Families.” This project brought together three and four generations of eleven Santa Fe families to compose/create a unique family “work” (story, short film, photograph, woodwork, quilt, sculpture, pottery, recording, etc.) accompanied by an original poem. The goal of the Lines and Circles project was to create and strengthen bonds within and between families and generate a body of art and poetry that commemorates family life. Sponsored by the City of Santa Fe, the Lannan Foundation, and Littleglobe.

Creative Director/Poet/Performer: “Four Poets Respond.” Collaborative, spoken word performances in response to art and issues of urgency to women. Each year, Four Poets Respond performs at venues in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, responding to works by women artists who explore social and environmental issues in innovative ways. 2012: Four Poets Respond to art and personal objects by Stephanie Lerma, Jennifer Zona, Maria Moya, Lauren Camp and other women artists.. Sponsored by Tricklock Theater Company & 516 Arts. 2011: Four Poets Respond to "Mujeres y Mujeres/Women & Women," a photographic exhibition by women photographers of Spain--Isabel Munoz, Soledad Cordoba, Ouka Leele, Beatriz Moreno and Gabriela Grech. Sponsored by Instituto Cervantes International. 2010: Four Poets Respond to “Form and Function,” a group exhibition featuring the work of artists and designers who explore sustainability, reuse, decoration, tradition and innovation. Sponsored by 516 Arts. 2009: Four Poets Respond to “Capitalism: Fueled by Envy and Greed,” and installation by sheri crider, which included a scale replica of a section of a 1946 Albuquerque home constructed with materials (destined for landfills) culled from local construction sites. Sponsored by SCA Contemporary Art. Participating artists/poets/performers: Jamie Figueroa, Jasmine Cuffee, Shelle Sanchez, Lauren Camp, Maureen Seaton and others.
 

Poet/Performer, “As Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Tribute to Gerard Manley Hopkins.” Poets, dancers, musicians and artists respond to and celebrate poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Theaterwork. December 19 & 20, 2009, James A. Little Theater, Santa Fe.

Poet/Collaborative Artist, “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,” was paired with a painting by Kathy Vargas. The exhibition traveled to several U.S. cities: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Albuquerque.

Other
Project Director: The Littleglobe Center for Creative Community Engagement. The CCCE is a training initiative that will develop a pool of skilled artists and cultural practitioners to undertake significant and meaningful community engagement and capacity projects in the southwest and beyond. Littleglobe.

Project Artist/Community Facilitator: “Turn the Lens” Teen Film Project. The Littleglobe Teen Film Project uses collaboration and mentorship to co-create documentary media/films that follow the lives of five to seven New Mexico adolescents in their last two years of high school. It is only when youth are encouraged to “turn the camera on themselves” that we can hope to get an accurate and compelling portrait of teen life. In this project, teens are taught filmmaking skills that enable them to tell their own compelling stories. A Littleglobe project in collaboration with the New Mexico Department of Higher Education.

Project Artist/Facilitator: The Littleglobe “Turn the Lens Transition Project” engages and collaborates with inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center to tell their stories and experiences of transition from inside to outside prison in a program that aims to transform prison rehabilitation and transition.programs. Littleglobe and Comienzos.

Project Artist: “Common Ground TOC Festival and Performance.” In 2008, this project brought together 80 community members and 70 public school students (Diné/Navajo, Hispanic/Norteño, White, Black, ages 5-85) from three rural New Mexico communities.. Community members engaged in creative exercises—movement, visual art, film, writing, music and more—that encouraged the sharing of personal stories and experiences, listening, dialogue and collaboration. After five months of collaboration, the ensemble produced and presented the Common Ground TOC Festival, an inter-media performance consisting of 27 works (film, movement, spoken word, monologues, chorus, music) reflecting the rich, complex past and present of the communities. Littleglobe.

Learn more about these projects at the Littleglobe website: www.littleglobe.org.
 

University Teaching Experience

University of Arizona, Highlands University, Ursinus College, College of Santa Fe, 1987-2010

Poetry Writing, all levels, undergraduate and graduate
American Literature, all periods and all levels
Writing Creative Nonfiction, all levels
19th Century Literature, poetry, nonfiction, fiction
Poetry-as-Literature, all periods and all levels
Global Postmodern Poetry
Twentieth Century Poetics
Senior Level Literature Seminars, various topics including Emily Dickinson and Melville’s Moby Dick
Interdisciplinary Studies: The U.S. Southwest: Matter, Memory, Imagination (History, Literature, Science); Beauty (Humanities, Art, Writing); Humanities (Art & Social Change)
Native American Literature
Latino/a Literature
Women’s Literature
Sharing the Same Space: Creative Community Engagement and Racial Healing

Professional Development

Selected Papers and Presentations
“LaChiPo and the New Latino Poetics/Politics:” John-Michael Rivera, Rodrigo Toscano, Valerie Martinez, Roberto Tejada, Danielle Cadena Deulen, Carmen Giménez Smith. LaChiPo, an online forum for the Latino Diaspora, is the Latino’s 21st century answer to ‘new’ movements like Flarf and Conceptual poetics. Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, February 2-5, 2011, Washington, DC.

“Artists, Organizers and Passionate People: Growing Public Programs and Long-Term Partnerships,” with Shelle Sanchez, Director of Education, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Carlos Contreras, Poet and Educator, Catalina Delgado-Trunk, Visual Artist and Education, Valerie Martínez. This session focused on strategies, advantages and challenges of building and growing public programs via cross-sector partnerships. New Mexico Association of Museums Annual Conference, November 3-6, 2010, Santa Fe, New Mexico

“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. September 24-25, 2010, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

“Contemporary Latino/a Poetry and the Avant Garde.” Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, January/February, 2008, New York City.

“Mire 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 FacultyLecture 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: The Poetic Image as Icon.” 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.

“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.

“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.

Selected Workshops
“Turning the House Upside Down: The Art of Revision,” a two-day workshop where poets practice creative approaches to revision, taking incipient poems and moving them toward final versions. Poets are challenged to undertake “unusual acts of revision” that will enable them to imagine, see, and hear their poems in new ways. Taos Summer Writers Conference, 2010.

“The Letter: The Visual Poetics of Written Correspondence,” a letter-writing workshop 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.
 

“The Centrifugal Poem,” a week-long workshop designed for intermediate and advanced poets who wanted to infuse their work with new energy. Taos Summer Writer’s Conference, July 14-18, 2008.

“Metamorphosis: Bookmaking and Poetry.” An afternoon workshop for teens. Southside Public Library, Santa Fe, June 9, 2008. Santa Fe Book Arts Group.

“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 High School English teachers. October 11, 2004, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Santa Fe Public Schools,

“Writing Your Family, Writing Yourself.” A four-week community writing course for Santa Fe adult learners. March and April, 2004. College of Santa Fe Community Programs.

“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.

Other Service
Judge, Poetry Out Loud National Finals, Washington, D.C., April 29, 2011 with Kerry Washington, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Amber Tamblyn and other national judges. The Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Grants Panelist, assessing grant applications submitted to the National Endowment for the Arts for funding in the Literary Publishing category. 2010 and 2011.

Judge, Poetry Out Loud National Finals, Washington, D.C., April 27, 2010 with John Leguizamo, Garrison Keillor, Alfre Woodard and other national judges. The Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Selected Readings
516 Arts, a reading of Each and Her, as part of the “Latino/a Visual Imaginary: Intersection of Word & Image” exhibition, March 19, 2011.
Tucson International Book Festival. Tucson, Arizona. March 12, 2011.
Folger Shakespeare Library Reading Series. Washington, DC. February 28, 2011.
New Mexico History Museum & the Palace Press Present, with Joan Logghe, Renee Gregorio,
John Brandi, Gary Mex Glazner, Arthur Sze, and others. October 29, 2010.
New Mexico Women Authors Book Festival, Santa Fe, October 2, 2010.
National Book Festival, Washington, DC. September 24-25, 2010. Library of Congress.
Poetry Foundation. Jazz Showcase, Chicago, IL, September 16, 2010. Sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and the Guild Complex.
As Kingfishers Catch Fire: 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.
Palabra Pura: One Poem Festival, Chicago, IL, February 13, 2009.
Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections, Associated Writing Programs Conference, Chicago, February 2009.
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), Santa Fe, 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.
Amigos Bravos (Friends of the Wild Rivers) Benefit, November 9, 2004
Poetic Justice: Poets and Musicians Celebrate Freedom of Speech in a Time of War.
Santa Fe, Saturday May 8, 2004.
Berman Museum of Art, “Works in Progress Series.” Sponsored by the Mellon Works-in-Progress Grant. Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA, March 25, 2003.
Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Waterloo, NJ, September 22, 2002