VALERIE MARTÍNEZ
News! Valerie's 6th book of poems will be published by Tupelo Press which received 1400 submissions for its 2025 Open Reading Series and chose five for publication. Read the October 2025 announcement here.
News! Winner, 2025 New Mexico Book Award, Open-Hearted Horizon: An Albuquerque Poetry Anthology, edited by Valerie Martinez and Shelle VanEtten de Sanchez. This anthology includes a wide range of Albuquerque-based poets and poems that are inspired by NM's largest city. In addition to poems by individual poets, this anthology also features collaborative works, including those by the EKCO collective and one that features a line from every poem in the anthology. Learn more.
Reknowned composer Peter Gilbert composed music for various sections of COUNT. Listen to "As the Waters Began to Rise," performed by Ekmeles, on Soundcloud.
Join Valerie on Instagram for posts dedicated to her book-length poem, COUNT. Purchase a copy of COUNT here.
Check out Amy's Vibe Tribe on Substack for "4 Questions for the Artist," where Valerie answers questions from Amy Pence about COUNT.
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.