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
October 16 to 18
Lit Youngstown Fall Literary Festival
Youngstown, OH
In-person featured presenter
Friday, October 24 • 7pm MT
Clyde Tombaugh Lecture Series
Astronomical Society of Las Cruces
Tombaugh Lecturer (Online presentation)
Sunday, October 26 • 4:30pm MT
Attached to the Living World - A New Ecopoetry Anthology
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse • Santa Fe NM
In-person and online reading with Elizabeth Jacobson, Anne H. McDonell, Sawnie Morris and Pam Uschuk
Saturday, November 22 • 10:30am MT
Humanist Society of New Mexico
Albuquerque Museum • Albuquerque, NM
In-person speaker
Saturday, November 22 • 3pm MT
ABQ inPrint launch
Books on the Bosque • Albuquerque, NM
In-person reading
March 4 to 7, 2026
AWP • Baltimore, MD
In-person • multiple events
Thursday, April 23, 2026 • 5pm PT • 8pm ET
Earth Month and Poetry Month
Terrain.org
Online reading
Highlights from the Past
Annual Convention of the National
Federation of State Poetry Societies
2025 • Albuquerque, NM
Keynote speaker
Poets Picnic • 2025
Albuquerque, NM
In-person featured reader
Saving the Night: Protecting Dark Skies in Our National Parks • April 2025
Lowell Observatory and Grand Canyon Conservancy Livestream Panel, with former Grand Canyon Astronomers in Residence Dean Regas, Lauren Camp, Kevin Schindler and Dark Sky Ranger Rader Lane
Poems in the Park in the Dark • March 2025
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument • Ajo, AZ
In-person poetry reading and laser-guided constellation tour
2025 Dark Sky Festival • January 2025
Death Valley National Park, CA
In-person poetry reading and laser-guided constellation tour
Pearl S. Buck Writer in Residence • January 2025
Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA
Discovering the Music of Poetry • October 2024
In-person event with conductor Oliver Prezant, Lauren Camp and improvising musicians
Discovering the Music of Poetry with violinist Carla Kountoupes, clarinetist Jerry Weimer, cellist Katie Harlow, poet Lauren Camp
Whitman on Walls! • September 2024
Hybrid project with Santa Fe Pro Musica, The Exodus Ensemble, United World College, The Academy for the Love of Learning, and others—juxtaposing film and live performance in response to Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
Grand Canyon Star Party • June 2024
Grand Canyon, AZ
In-person reading and presentation
Unfolding • Spring 2024
Dance performance choreographed for Lauren’s poems
National Dance Institute of New Mexico (NDI)
The Writer’s Center: Virtual Craft Happy Hour (In Old Sky) • 2024
In conversation with Emily Holland, Managing Editor of Poet Lore
Launch for An Eye in Each Square • July 2023
Reading/conversation with Katie Doyle
Assistant Curator, New Mexico Museum of Art
The El Palacio Interview • Spring 2023
photo by Scott Pasfield
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
Between the Covers • 2020
Interview with David Naiman
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