Events
photo by Juno Ogle • Silver City Daily Press
“Lauren Camp’s voice is unique among poets writing in the United States today. It can be still and enveloping, then suddenly surprising in its complexity. We read or listen and know both the care of long-nurtured craft and the power of dramatic insight… ample and profound, strong and rewarding.”
— Margaret Randall
Upcoming Gigs
Monday, April 1 • 6pm MT
Collected Works Bookstore • Santa Fe, NM
In-person and online reading
with Santa Fe Poet Laureate Tommy Archuleta
Wednesday, April 3 • 6pm MT
Desert Art Lab • Pueblo, CO
In-person reading with Juan Morales
and community writing event
Thursday, April 4 • 2pm MT
The Southern Colorado Reading Series
CSU-Pueblo, LINCx Center • Pueblo, CO
In-person reading
Friday, April 5 • Noon MT
Arthur Johnson Memorial Library • Raton, NM
In-person community reading and writing event
Sunday, April 7 • 4pm MT
Geronimo’s Books • Santa Fe, NM
In-person reading with Joni Wallace
Monday, April 8
The Traveling Mollys Open Mic and Reading Series
Online reading with Major Jackson
Wednesday, April 10 • 7:30 pm CT
The Mark Allen Everett Poetry Series
Green feather Books • Norman, OK
In-person reading
Tuesday, April 16 • 12:30pm CT
Lunch and Learn for National Poetry Month
and Arab American Heritage Month
St. Louis Community College • St. Louis, MO
Online presentation
Thursday, April 18 • 5pm PT
The Grand Canyon Conservancy Book Club
Online reading and conversation
Saturday, April 20 • 2pm MT
From Ravens to Arabic Lands
Mesa Public Library • Los Alamos, NM
In-person reading and conversation
Thursday, April 25
Mountainair, NM
In-person community reading and writing event
Saturday, April 27 • 10am MT
Chatter North
CCA (The Muñoz-Waxman Gallery) • Santa Fe, NM
In-person chamber music and poetry
Monday, May 6 • 7pm PT
Page Poets and Writers Reading Series
Page Public Library • Page, AZ
In-person reading with Simmons Buntin
Thursday, May 9 • 5pm PT
The Stafford Poetry Challenge
Online presentation
Saturday, June 1 • 5pm MT
Community Reading Series
CCA Santa Fe, NM
In-person reading with Jamie Figueroa,
Natachee Momaday Gray and Renata Golden
Sunday, June 2 • 10am MT
Chatter Sunday
912 3rd Street NW Albuquerque, NM
In-person chamber music and poetry
Thursday, June 20 • 7pm ET
The Writer’s Center Craft Chat
Online conversation with Emily Holland
Thursday, September 19
New Mexico Highlands Uniiversity
Thomas C. Donnelly Library • Las Vegas, NM
In-person community poetry reading and writing event
Highlights from the Past
Launch for An Eye in Each Square • July 2023
Reading/conversation with Katie Doyle
Assistant Curator, New Mexico Museum of Art
Collected Works Bookstore, Santa Fe, NM
New Mexico State Legislature
Opening the 2023 legislative session
Grand Canyon Astronomer in Residence • August 2022
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum:
“Breakfast with O’Keeffe Online ” • 2021
Presentation on Turquoise Door, Mabel Dodge Luhan and Taos
The Writer’s Center: Virtual Craft Happy Hour • 2020
In conversation with Emily Holland, Managing Editor of Poet Lore
Between the Covers • 2020 Interview with David Naiman
Tupelo Press Book Launch • 2020
Anna Maria Hong, Noah Falck, Matthew Schultz, Lauren Camp, Dan Beachy-Quick
Southwest Festival of the Written Word
Panel discussion on the theme of “Borders”
Silver City, NM • 2019
Women’s Voices, Women’s Silences
Roundtable discussion
Memorial Union, University of Missouri-Columbia • 2019
Biblioteca Andrés Henestrosa
Bilingual reading from 12 Poetas Antología
(Editor Margaret Randall, Edicciones La Herrata Feliz) with translator Matt Gleeson
Oaxaca Centro, Mexico • 2019
7th Elemental Concert: Molybdenum
Musician Lauria and Lauren Camp
San Miguel Mission • Santa Fe, NM • 2019
Oklahoma Center for the Humanities
Poetry & Dementia: A Reading with Lauren Camp
Tulsa, OK • 2019
Oxley College of Health Sciences
Discussion on poetry and dementia care with Dr. Alderman, Director, TU Institute for Health Care Delivery Sciences
University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK • 2019
The Library of Congress: The Poet and the Poem
An interview with Grace Cavalieri
Mayo Clinic
Grand Rounds Lecture: “Begging a Memory: Poems on Dementia”
Rochester, MN • 2018
Alzheimer’s Association Caregiver Conference
Lecture: “Begging a Memory: Poems on Dementia”
Albuquerque, NM • 2018
University of Minnesota
Lecture: “Discovering Baghdad”
Rochester, MN • 2018
Hugo House
Workshop and reading
Seattle, WA • 2017
Tupelo Truchas Poetry Conference
Faculty with Jeffrey Levine and Veronica Golos
Truchas, NM • 2017
The Innisfree Poetry Bookstore + Cafe
Reading with Jennifer Foerster and Carolina Ebeid
Boulder, CO • 2017
International Studies Institute, University of New Mexico
Lecture: “Discovering Baghdad”
Albuquerque, NM • 2017
Georgetown University
Reading co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Civilization
and the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Washington, DC • 2017
George Washington University
Washington, DC • 2017
University of Oklahoma
Lecture: “Discovering Baghdad”
Norman, OK • 2016
Oklahoma Baptist University
Shawnee, OK • 2016
Collected Works Bookstore
“Muse Times Two” reading with Crystal Williams
Santa Fe, NM • 2016
RAWI+Mizna National Lit Gathering
Open Book, Minneapolis, MN • 2016
DIWAN 6 Conference
Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI • 2015
San Miguel Writers’ Conference
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico • 2011
photo by Katrina Holder
“We loved having Lauren in our class. The students really have improved in their writing as well as becoming comfortable in presenting their own poems. At first, students were shy and uncomfortable with reading their poems, but they ended up wanting to share their poems with the class. Thank you.”
— Selina McGinn
English teacher at Espanola Valley High School, NM
“Thank you, Lauren, for your zoom visit to class. It was a rich and comfortable talk. Your insight and encouragement were a treasure for us, and it was a good way to segue into their final projects, a chapbook of their own work.”
— Stan Galloway
Professor of English, Bridgewater College, VA
“I knew the moment I heard you read and talk about your process that I had to learn from you.”
— Malaika King Albrecht
Founding editor, Redheaded Stepchild