Lauren Camp to discuss 'Poetry & Geography' at Albuquerque Museum

AT THE ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM

Lauren Camp, the former New Mexico Poet Laureate, will talk about “Poetry & Geography: Mapping Emotions and Experience Through Lines and Stanzas” at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, at the museum.

Camp will also read from her work, including the award-winning poetry collection “In Old Sky,” inspired by the month she spent as astronomer-in-residence at Grand Canyon National Park.

In cooperation with New Mexico Arts, she conceived and coordinated the New Mexico Epic Poem Project, which attempts to reach remote and arts-underserved areas, to encourage residents to explore poetry and to write about their home communities.

Camp’s presentation, which is free and open to the public, is part of the Humanist Speaker Series sponsored by the Humanist Society of New Mexico.

The Albuquerque Museum is located at 2000 Mountain Road NW.

AT BOOKS ON THE BOSQUE

The Albuquerque bookstore is hosting the launch of the publication “ABQ inPrint 9: time as a story” at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16.

Now in its ninth year, the annual publication contains poems, stories, creative nonfiction and images. The topic of the issue is “the elusive subject of time,” co-editor/co-publisher Lynn C. Miller wrote on the editors’ welcome page. “In numerology, nine signifies process and meditation on the precipice of 10, signaling completion.”

The launch event will feature readings by 14 of the issue’s contributors, including Miller, Lauren Camp, Tina Carlson, Laura Furman, Barb Leviton, David Meischen, Barbara Rockman, Katherine Seluja and Cynthia Sylvester.

Books on the Bosque is located at 6261 Riverside Plaza Lane NW.

AT BOOKWORKS

David Policansky will discuss his book “Historic Catholic Churches of Northwestern New Mexico” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, at Bookworks.

The book of photographs is the fourth in a series.

Bookworks is located at 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW.

IN SANTA FE

Former Albuquerque Poet Laureate Michelle Otero and Santa Fe poet/activist Demetria Martinez will read from their work at 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, at Geronimo’s Books, 3018 Cielo Court, Suite D, Santa Fe.

IN TAOS

SOMOS will host three author events this week at SOMOS Salon, 108 Civic Plaza Drive in Taos.

The first event is at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16, and will feature three Taos authors paying tribute to the late Santa Fe writer Sallie Bingham. The authors — Eileen Wiard, Steve Fox and Lucy Herrman — will read from Bingham’s work.

At 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21, SOMOS will have Santa Fe author Jenn Shapland reading from her work. Shapland’s genre-bending debut book, “My Autobiography of Carson McCullers” was a finalist for the National Book Award in NonFiction and won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir in 2021.

At. 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, authors Rick Klein and Rick Collignon, both of Taos, will read from their work.