VALERIE MARTÍNEZ
Join Valerie for a writing workshop at the Taos Writers Conference, Friday, July 24, 2026. The ONLINE workshop is entitled "Our Entanglements with Nature."
News! Valerie's 6th book of poems will be published by Tupelo Press which received 1400 submissions for its 2025 Open Reading Series and chose five for publication. Read the October 2025 announcement here.
News! Winner, 2025 New Mexico Book Award, Open-Hearted Horizon: An Albuquerque Poetry Anthology, edited by Valerie Martinez and Shelle VanEtten de Sanchez. This anthology includes a wide range of Albuquerque-based poets and poems that are inspired by NM's largest city. In addition to poems by individual poets, this anthology also features collaborative works, including those by the EKCO collective and one that features a line from every poem in the anthology. Learn more.
Reknowned composer Peter Gilbert composed music for various sections of Valerie's book-length poem, COUNT. Listen to "As the Waters Began to Rise," performed by Ekmeles, on Soundcloud.
Check out Amy's Vibe Tribe on Substack for "4 Questions for the Artist," where Valerie answers questions from Amy Pence about COUNT.
Read a review of Valerie's book-length poem, COUNT, by Karen Leona Anderson in the April 2023 issue of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment: Review.