Celebrate Poetry Month and Our Poets Laureate

Saturday, April 1, 2023 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm

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 address: 
4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW
Albuquerque, NM 87107
Took House By Lauren Camp Cover Image
$20.64
ISBN: 9781946482327
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Tupelo Press - August 1st, 2020

One Hundred Hungers By Lauren Camp Cover Image
$16.95
Email or call for price.
ISBN: 9781936797721
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
By Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez (Editor), Levi Romero (Editor), Spencer R. Herrera (Editor)
$34.95
ISBN: 9780826361608
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
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
By Levi Romero, V. B. Price (Foreword by), Rudolfo Anaya (Preface by)
$19.95
ISBN: 9780826345103
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
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
$29.95
ISBN: 9780826353542
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: University of New Mexico Press - October 30th, 2013

Pura Puta: a poetic memoir By Anna C. Martinez Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781956375039
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Casa Urraca Press - June 7th, 2022

One Albuquerque, One Hundred Poets By Mary Oishi (Editor) Cover Image
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
$18.95
ISBN: 9780826362698
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: University of New Mexico Press - February 15th, 2021

Commissions Y Corridos: Poems By Hakim Bellamy Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9780826363176
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: University of New Mexico Press - August 15th, 2021

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