VALERIE MARTÍNEZ
On Sunday, July 27, 2025, Valerie will moderate a panel featuring Diane Glancy, Naomi Shihab Nye, Lauren Camp, Hakim Bellamy, Damien Flores and Kayleigh Stevens on the theme of "Every Culture Has a Poem" for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies (NFSPS) Convention. Learn more.
Join Valerie on Instagram for posts dedicated to her book-length poem, COUNT. Purchase a copy of COUNT here.
Read a review of Valerie's book-length poem, COUNT, by Karen Leona Anderson in the April 2023 issue of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment: Review.
Watch a reading from Count, Valerie's new book, and conversation with Rigoberto Gonzalez, Puerto del Sol Series editor at the University of Arizona Press.
Reknowned composer Peter Gilbert composed music for various sections of COUNT. Listen to "As the Waters Began to Rise," performed by Ekmeles, on Soundcloud.
Celebrating 20 years of the wonderful Letras Latinas, Valerie read with Blas Falconer and Dan Vera at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, part of the O.B. Hardison Series, on November 12, 2024. Learn more here.
Valerie's essay, "Peopleness: Ethnicity and the Latinx Poem," appears in the anthology, Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry (University of New Mexico Press, 2022). Learn more here.