Celebrate Poetry Month and Our Poets Laureate

Join Bookworks and our local Poets Laureate in celebrating Poetry Month!

We are honored to kick off in-person events with a reading and signing on Saturday, April 1st, featuring six of our Poets Laureate, in collaboration with UNM Press:

Lauren Camp, Current NM Poet Laureate, 2023 - 2026

Levi Romero, Inaugural NM Poet Laureate, 2020 - 2023

Anna C. Martinez, Current Albuquerque Poet Laureate, 2022 - 2024

Mary Oishi, Albuquerque Poet Laureate, 2020 - 2022

Michelle Otero, Albuquerque Poet Laureate, 2018 - 2020

Hakim Bellamy, Inaugural Albuquerque Poet Laureate, 2012 - 2014

Our MC for the evening will be Dr. Shelle Sanchez, Arts & Culture Director for the City of Albuquerque.


Books by all poets will be available for purchase at the event, or may be purchased via the links below.

Event date: 
Saturday, April 1, 2023 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Event address: 
4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW
Albuquerque, NM 87107
Took House By Lauren Camp Cover Image

Took House (Paperback)

By Lauren Camp
$17.95
ISBN: 9781946482327
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Tupelo Press - June 1st, 2020
One Hundred Hungers By Lauren Camp Cover Image

One Hundred Hungers (Paperback)

By Lauren Camp
$21.19
ISBN: 9781936797721
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Tupelo Press - March 1st, 2016
Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland (Querencias) By Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez (Editor), Levi Romero (Editor), Spencer R. Herrera (Editor) Cover Image

Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland (Querencias) (Paperback)

By Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez (Editor), Levi Romero (Editor), Spencer R. Herrera (Editor)
$34.95
ISBN: 9780826361608
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: University of New Mexico Press - June 15th, 2020
Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry) By Levi Romero, V. B. Price (Foreword by), Rudolfo Anaya (Preface by) Cover Image

Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry) (Paperback)

By Levi Romero, V. B. Price (Foreword by), Rudolfo Anaya (Preface by)
$19.95
ISBN: 9780826345103
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: University of New Mexico Press - July 31st, 2009
Sagrado: A Photopoetics Across the Chicano Homeland (Querencias) By Spencer R. Herrera, Robert Kaiser (Photographer), Levi Romero Cover Image

Sagrado: A Photopoetics Across the Chicano Homeland (Querencias) (Paperback)

By Spencer R. Herrera, Robert Kaiser (Photographer), Levi Romero
$29.95
ISBN: 9780826353542
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Published: University of New Mexico Press - October 30th, 2013
Pura Puta: a poetic memoir By Anna C. Martinez Cover Image

Pura Puta: a poetic memoir (Paperback)

By Anna C. Martinez
$18.00
ISBN: 9781956375039
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Casa Urraca Press - June 7th, 2022
One Albuquerque, One Hundred Poets By Mary Oishi (Editor) Cover Image

One Albuquerque, One Hundred Poets (Paperback)

By Mary Oishi (Editor)
$13.95
ISBN: 9781737197614
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Albuquerque Public Library Foundation - November 15th, 2022
Bosque: Poems By Michelle Otero Cover Image

Bosque: Poems (Paperback)

By Michelle Otero
$18.95
ISBN: 9780826362698
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: University of New Mexico Press - February 15th, 2021
Commissions Y Corridos: Poems By Hakim Bellamy Cover Image

Commissions Y Corridos: Poems (Paperback)

By Hakim Bellamy
$18.95
ISBN: 9780826363176
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: University of New Mexico Press - August 15th, 2021
Swear By Hakim Bellamy Cover Image

Swear (Paperback)

By Hakim Bellamy
$14.95
ISBN: 9780982696897
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Published: West End Press - April 1st, 2013