Events
“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
June and July
Poet Laureate travel for WoW, Poetry!
(In conjunction with the mobile museum program
of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs)
Bloomfield Public library—June 13
Farmington Children’s Museum—June14
Tucumcari Public Library—June 22
Ft. Sumner Public Library—June 23
Clovis Carver Public Library—July 19
Portales Public Library—July 20
Thursday, June 22 • Time TBA
Tucumcari Railroad Museum • Tucumcari, NM
In-person featured reader + open mic
Saturday, July 15, 7pm MDT
Pajarito Environmental Education Center • Los Alamos, NM
In-person reading at the planetarium in conjunction with Sciencefest
Friday, August 12 • 2pm MDT
Tranquilbuzz Coffee House • Silver City, NM
In-person featured reader + open mic
Wednesday, August 23, 7:30pm EDT
Wild & Precious Life Series
Reading with Randall Mann and Catherine Esposito Prescott
Monday, September 25
Terrain.org
Online reading
Thursday, September 28 • 6:15pm MDT
Fixed and Free • Albuquerque, NM
Online reading • Featured reader with Nathan Brown + Open mic
Tuesday, November 28 • 7pm EST
Skazat! • Ann Arbor, MI
Online • Featured reader
Sunday, January 14, 2024 • 5pm EST
Trees/Nature • Yetzirah Reading Series
Online reading with Susan Aizenberg and Taije Silverman
Highlights from the Past
New Mexico State Legislature
Opening the 2023 legislative session
Grand Canyon Astronomer in Residence • August 2022
Denver Botanic Gardens reading and conversation • 2022
Poetry Festival Singapore • 2021
Book Launch for Atelier of Healing: Poetry About Trauma and Recovery
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum:
“Breakfast with O’Keeffe Online ” • 2021
Presentation on Turquoise Door, Mabel Dodge Luhan and Taos
Ruminate: “Happenings” Craft talk • 2021
Cultivating Voices: New Book Showcase • 2021
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