VALERIE MARTÍNEZ
Join Valerie on Instagram for posts dedicated to her book-length poem, COUNT. Purchase a copy of COUNT here.
Join Valerie and other poets and poets laureate for a reading, gathering, and fundraiser for the Harris/Walz campaign - ABQ Writers for Harris! Donations small and large are welcome. Hope to see you there on Sunday, October 6 at 2 pm. at Books on the Bosque in Albuquerque. RSVP here: https://events.democrats.org/event/706072/
Celebrating 20 years of the wonderful Letras Latinas, Valerie will read with Blas Falconer and Dan Vera at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, part of the O.B. Hardison Series, on November 12, 2024. This is the 11th of a 12-month series. Learn more here.
Recently published: Open-Hearted Horizon: An Albuquerque Poetry Anthology, edited by Valerie and Shelle Sanchez, University of New Mexico Press, 2024, featuring 66 Albuquerque poets. Learn more.
Read a review of Valerie's most recent book of poetry, COUNT, by Karen Leona Anderson in the April 2023 issue of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment: Review.
Watch a reading from Count, Valerie's new book, and conversation with Rigoberto Gonzalez, Puerto del Sol Series editor at the University of Arizona Press.
Reknowned composer Peter Gilbert composed music for various sections of COUNT. Listen to "As the Waters Began to Rise," performed by Ekmeles, on Soundcloud.
Valerie's essay, "Peopleness: Ethnicity and the Latinx Poem," appears in the new anthology, Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry (University of New Mexico Press, 2022). Learn more here.