Albuquerque Poet
Laureate Program (APLP)
Fiscal Sponsor
Escuela del Sol Montessori
Albuquerque, New Mexico
APLP Organizing Committee
Mindy Grossberg
mgrossberg2001@yahoo.com
Mindy Grossberg is the Coordinator for ArtStreet, a community
open art studio and program of Albuquerque Health Care for the
Homeless, where she has worked and found a home for over 10
years. In addition to working in community and creating art out
of found objects-her favorite being sock monkeys- Mindy is a
student and practitioner of Action Theater, a form of body based
improvisational theater.
Valerie
Martinez
valmatz@comcast.net
Valerie Martínez is a
poet, educator, playwright, librettist, and collaborative
artist. She is the author of six books of poetry including
Absence, Luminescent,
World to World,
and Each and Her
(nominated for a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize) and was
the Poet Laureate for the City of Santa Fe for 2008-2010.
Valerie has more than 20
years of experience as a teacher, primarily at the college
level. For over 15 years, has worked with children, young
adults, adults, teachers, and seniors in a wide range of
community outreach and educational programs. She is Executive
Director and Core Artist with Littleglobe:
www.littleglobe.org.
Her website address is
www.valeriemartinez.net
Susan McAllister susan.mcallister@swcp.com
For the past fifteen years Susan
has worked in the Albuquerque arts community in different
capacities, as director of the Harwood Art Center, as a
freelance grant writer and consultant, and currently as project
manager of the One Million Bones social arts practice.
Her love of poetry manifests as
facilitator more often than creator — as co-editor of
The Harwood Anthology
and Looking Back to Place
published by Old School Books and
A Bigger Boat: The Unlikely
Success of the Albuquerque Poetry Slam Scene,
published by UNM Press, and as co-organizer and financial
director of the 2005 National Poetry Slam in Albuquerque. Her
poetry has appeared in local publications, but don’t expect to
see her reading in public. Really.
Don
McIver dbodinem@gmail.com
Basic Human Needs Award winning poet, Don McIver is a four time
member of the ABQ slam team, a host/producer of KUNM’s Spoken
Word Hour, the author of The
Noisy Pen, and editor of
A Bigger Boat: The Unlikely
Success of the Albuquerque
Poetry Slam Scene.
He’s performed all over the United States including the Colorado
Performance Poetry Festival, Tucson Poetry Festival, the
3SidedWhole, and the 2011 Solofest.
He’s produced, curated, and hosted poetry events big and small
including the 2005 National Poetry Slam, and been published in
numerous magazines and anthologies. He’s a board member of New
Mexico Literary Arts, a former Albuquerque Slam master, and a
member of the Executive Council of PSi from 2006-08. He’s
presented on the uses of spoken word as a way to engage students
in language at the state and national conference for the
College, Reading and Learning Association, and the 2011
Albuquerque Cultural Conference.
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