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WHAT'S NEW:
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Take a workshop with Valerie,
write
your memoir in poetry and/or prose,
five Wednesdays starting March 7 in Albuquerque.
This writing workshop is being offered at a reduced rate--$75 for all
five sessions--in honor of Women & Creativity Month. Learn more at
www.womenandcreativity.org.
Click on "Events" and scroll down to March 7th for information.
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Please join Valerie, Lauren Camp,
Jazz Cuffee and Shelle Sánchez for an encore performance of
four
poets respond: "And I find Her,"
poetry-as-performance in response to art by six New Mexico
artists: Lauren Camp, Becky Holtzman, Stephanie Lerma, Maria Moya,
Carol Sanchez and Jennifer Zona,
March 8, 2012, 7 pm at the National Hispanic
Cultural Center.
For more information, click on "Performance," left.
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Valerie and the artist
team of the
SANTA FE BUS OPERA
are busy at work creating this exciting and unusual performance in
collaboration with Santa Fe residents, bus drivers, bus riders, and
visitors. Click on "Performance," left to learn more.
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Valerie, along with artists Bobbe
Besold and Dominique Mazeaud and VISTA's Rachel Boothby will walk the
length of the endangered Santa Fe River in May--read about the
"RIVERS
RUN THROUGH US"
project by clicking on "Community" at left.
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Coming in 2012, Valerie's
NEW WEBSITE--finally!
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Valerie's
EACH AND HER was recently awarded
the 2011 ARIZONA BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY from
the Arizona Book Publishing Association. The winning books were
announced at a banquet in Phoenix in May, 2011.
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Each and Her was awarded
Honorable Mention in the
2011 International Latino Book
Awards. The winner of the 2011 ILBA in poetry
is the anthology, Camino del Sol (ed. Rigoberto Gonzalez), which
contains poems from Valerie's second book, World to World.
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Read the
most recent
review of EACH AND HER
in Elevate Difference:
http://elevatedifference.com/review/each-and-her.
Click
on "Books," left, for links to additional reviews.
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Learn more about the range of
Valerie's
creative & community
engagement projects
at the Littleglobe website:
www.littleglobe.org
ABOUT
VALERIE MARTÍNEZ
Valerie
Martínez is a poet, teacher, translator, playwright, librettist, editor and
collaborative artist. She is Executive Director and Core Artist with Littleglobe (see below). Valerie's
first book of poetry, Absence, Luminescent (Four Way Books, 1999),
won the Larry Levis Prize and a Greenwall Grant from the Academy of American
Poets after being a finalist in the Walt Whitman, National Poetry Series,
and Intro Award competitions. The second edition of Absence, Luminescent
was published in August, 2010. Her second book, World to World,
was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2004. Martinez’s
translations of the poetry of Uruguay’s Delmira Agustini (1886-1914), A
Flock of Scarlet Doves, was published in special edition by Sutton Hoo
Press in 2005 and a book-length poem, Each and Her (nominated for a
Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award) was released in September of 2010. Her collection of Santa Fe
poems (written during her tenure as Poet Laureate of Santa Fe), And They
Called it Horizon, was published in December, 2010 (Sunstone Press) and
the Palace Press has published a special edition, hand-press volume containing Valerie's long
poem about Santa Fe, This is How it Began. Click on "Books"
(left) for more information.
Martinez’s
poetry, translations, and essays have appeared widely in literary journals
and magazines including The American Poetry Review; Parnassus; The Colorado
Review; Puerto del Sol; The Notre Dame Review; Mandorla, Tiferet, The
Bloomsbury Review, and AGNI. Her poems have also appeared in
various anthologies of contemporary poetry, including The Best American
Poetry; New American Poets--A Breadloaf Anthology; American
Poetry--Next Generation, Touching the Fire--Fifteen Poets of Today’s
Latino Renaissance; Renaming Ecstasy--Latino Writings on the Sacred
and Junta--Contemporary Latino/a Poetry of the Avant Garde. Martínez
served as assistant editor of the anthology Reinventing the Enemy’s
Language--Contemporary Writing by Native Women of North America (Norton
1997) and an essay about Joy Harjo (along with poems by Harjo and Martínez)
appears in the anthology Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and
Affections (University of Iowa Press, 2008).
Valerie’s poem “September,
2001” was featured in the Washington Post’s “Poet’s Choice” Series
(September 2009) and an animated version of Valerie’s poem, “Bowl,” appears
in the Poetry Everywhere Series (PBS/The Poetry Foundation).
Valerie is the editor of an anthology of poetry by youth in foster care,
entitled Ask Me Who I Am: Writing and Art by New Mexico CYFD Youth,
as well as a book about eleven Santa Fe families who participated in a
groundbreaking intergenerational, community building project entitled,
Lines and Circles: A Celebration of Santa Fe Families (see "Books," at
left).
Valerie is Executive Director and core artist with
Littleglobe, an
artist-run non-profit that collaborates with communities in creating public
works of art, installation, and performance as well as produces smaller
scale artist collaborations. Current and recent projects include
Artist-to-Artist, a poetry and art project with youth in CYFD care; ,
Crosstown, a bus opera which will premiere in Santa Fe in the fall of
2012; La Onda de la Palabra/Wave of the Word, a collaboration with
Artstreet (A Division of Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless);
Salve: Women on War and Warriorship, a spoken word and musical
performance that explores the stories and reflections of women war veterans,
Four Poets Respond--a series of spoken word performances (with Jasmine Cuffee, Jamie
Figueroa, Shelle Sanchez and Lauren Camp) in response to various works of
art and installation, and Lifesongs, a project in which artists and
composers collaborate with elders in hospice and nursing homes to create
original musical pieces. Learn more about these projects by
clicking on "Community" and "Performance," at left, and at
www.littleglobe.org.
Valerie has
more than twenty years of experience as a classroom teacher, primarily at
the college level. For over ten years, she has also taught children, young
adults, adults, teachers, and seniors in a wide range of community outreach
and educational programs. In 2009 Valerie was awarded the Albuquerque
Journal/SAGE Magazine “Twenty Women Who Have Made a Difference” award
for her creative and community work.
Valerie has a
B.A. from Vassar College and an M.F.A. from The University of Arizona. She
has taught at the University of Arizona, Ursinus College, New Mexico
Highlands University, University of New Mexico, College of Santa Fe, the
Institute for American Indian Art (IAIA) and in the rural schools of
Swaziland. She was the Poet Laureate for the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico
from March 2008-March 2010.
Click
on "Curriculum Vitae" (left) for Valerie's full c.v.
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