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Lauren Camp to discuss 'Poetry & Geography' at sa国际传媒官网网页入口 Museum

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AT THE ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM

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

Camp will also read from her work, including the award-winning poetry collection 鈥淚n Old Sky,鈥 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鈥檚 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 sa国际传媒官网网页入口 Museum is located at 2000 Mountain Road NW.

AT BOOKS ON THE BOSQUE

The sa国际传媒官网网页入口 bookstore is hosting the launch of the publication 鈥淎BQ inPrint 9: time as a story鈥 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 鈥渢he elusive subject of time,鈥 co-editor/co-publisher Lynn C. Miller wrote on the editors鈥 welcome page. 鈥淚n numerology, nine signifies process and meditation on the precipice of 10, signaling completion.鈥

The launch event will feature readings by 14 of the issue鈥檚 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 鈥淗istoric Catholic Churches of Northwestern New Mexico鈥 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 sa国际传媒官网网页入口 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鈥檚 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 鈥 Eileen Wiard, Steve Fox and Lucy Herrman 鈥 will read from Bingham鈥檚 work.

At 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21, SOMOS will have Santa Fe author Jenn Shapland reading from her work. Shapland鈥檚 genre-bending debut book, 鈥淢y Autobiography of Carson McCullers鈥 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.