Valerie Martínez

Valerie Martínez (born 1961) is an American poet, writer, educator, arts administrator, consultant, and collaborative artist. She served as the poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico from 2008 to 2010.

Life Valerie Martinez was born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico,

Anthologies (editor) Open-Hearted Horizon: Poems of Albuquerque (University of New Mexico Press, forthcoming February 2024) Lines and Circles: A Celebration of Santa Fe Families (Sunstone Press, 2010) Ask Me Who I Am: Writing and Art by foster care youth in programs of the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department (Littleglobe Productions, 2010) Reinventing the Enemy's Language--Contemporary Writing by Native Women of North America (Norton, 1997) Anthologies - Selected (poems, essays) New Mexico Poetry Anthology. Poem: "And They Called It Horizon." Edited by Levi Romero and Michelle Otero. Museum of New Mexico Press, 2023. How to Read (and Write About) Poetry. Poem, "Granite Weaving" (based on Jesus Moroles's granite sculpture by the same name). The poem originally appeared in Poetry magazine, March 2016 issue. Edited by Susan Holbrook. Broadview Press 2022, second edition. Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry. Essay: "Peopleness: Ethnicity and the Latinx Poem." Edited by Ruben Quesada. University of New Mexico Press, 2022. Counterclaims: Poets and Poetries, Talking Back. Many of the most influential voices in contemporary poetics respond to well-known statements about poetry by W.H. Auden and Theodor Adornos, including Valerie Martínez, Susan Wheeler, Cynthia Hogue, Mary Ruefle and C.D. Wright. Edited by H.L Hix, Dalkey Archive Press, 2020. Resist Much, Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance. Poems "Where Resistance Shapes Itself," "Six Principles of Nonviolence" and "Life, Liberty, Property." Edited by Boughn, Bradley, Cardenas, et al. Spuyten Duyvil Press/Dispatches Editions, February 28, 2017. Ley Lines (writers and artists in conversation). Edited by H.L. Hix. Commentary on passages in Each and Her. Wilfried Laurier University Press, 2014. Wingbeats II: Exercises & Practice in Poetry. "Dip, Rise, Dive: Personal Questions and the Leap Into Poetry." A generative exercise for writers, teachers and courses. Eds. Wiggerman and Meischen. Dos Gatos Press, 2014. Synergy: La Onda de la Palabra/Wave of the Word: Visual Art, Writing, and Community-Making. Poem "Lines" and Art "Untitled:" The anthology documents a two-year project (funded by the National Endowment for the Arts) in which poets worked together with artists experiencing homelessness or housing instability in collaboration with ArtStreet, a program of Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless. Old School Books, 2012. Santa Fe: Exploring the Past, Defining the Future. Edited by Rob Dean. Excerpt from "Listen" (poem). Sunstone Press 2011. El Palacio: Art, History and Culture of the Southwest: Interview of Valerie Martínez by Carmella Padilla. El Palacio Press, August 2010. Efforts and Affections: Contemporary Poets and Their Mentors: essay "Mapping the Next World" (about Joy Harjo) and poems by Martínez and Harjo. Eds. Rachel Zucker and Arielle Greenberg. University of Iowa Press, 2008. Metamorfosis: Voces femininas, palabras español. Poem: "El mundo al mundo." Instituto Cervantes con el Centro Nacional de la Cultura Hispana. March, 2008. Renaming Ecstasy: Latino Writings on the Sacred: poems: "The Annunciation," "Tesoro," "Invocation," "O Story of Influence," "Heat of Breath." Bilingual Press, December 2002. New American Poetry: A Bread Loaf Anthology. "Camera Obscura" and "Ever So, Between." University of New England Press, 2000. American Poetry: Next Generation. "Coastal" and "Into the Next One." Carnegie Mellon Press, 2000. Touching the Fire: Fifteen Poets of Today's Latino Renaissance. Ten poems. New York: Doubleday, 1998. The Best American Poetry. "Into the Next One." New York: Scribner, 1996.

Honors and awards

2014 Creative Bravos Award celebrating the works and accomplishments of Albuquerque-based artists/writers and arts organizations, City of Albuquerque, New Mexico 2011 Finalist, International Latino Book Awards, for Each and Her 2020 Arizona Book Award for Each and Her 2009 Twenty Women Who Have Made a Difference, Albuquerque Journal Sage Magazine 2008–2010 Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico 1999 Larry Levis Poetry Prize for Absence, Luminescent. Judge: Jean Valentine 1998 The Greenwall Fund Grant, Academy of American Poets, for Absence, Luminescent