photo by Clare Bonser
“You made those poems into flesh.”
— Santa Fe creative writing instructor
“[Your reading] was so elemental, like perfect little moments or molecules. As I was listening, I was hoping you were very prolific. I want to hear everything you do.”
— David Linke
“I always read your poetry over and over, in layers so to speak. In the poems, as in the art, you've found how to apply the positive pressure of self-control.”
— John Crawford,
Associate Professor of English (Emeritus), University of New Mexico
About Lauren
Lauren Camp is a visual artist and poet. Her poems have been published in Sin Fronteras, The Wild Goose Poetry Review, Hotel Amerika (Spring 2009), Santa Fe Review and other journals. She has performed her poems solo and in collaboration with jazz musicians on various Southwest stages.
In 2006, she won a New Mexico Discovery Award from the Southwest Literary Center. She holds degrees from Cornell University (B.S., Communication / Human Development) and Emerson College (M.A., Oral Interpretation).
Lauren has been Artist-in-Residence at Working Classroom in Albuquerque, New Mexico and the New Brunswick (New Jersey) Public Schools, working with elementary and high school students from disadvantaged communities, and is the recipient of a Gaea Foundation “Sea Change” Residency. She has also mentored adults in creativity and self-expression.
Every Monday morning, Lauren hosts and produces “The Colors of Jazz” for KSFR 101.1 FM, a weekly mind-bending romp through the facets of jazz and poetry – yet another way to keep her mind on rhythm, sound and words.