Jay Gogue, Interim President of the NMSU System | New Mexico State University
Jay Gogue, Interim President of the NMSU System | New Mexico State University
La Sociedad para Las Artes at New Mexico State University is set to host a public reading event featuring New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp. This event is part of the Nelson-Boswell Reading Series, which invites writers to NMSU to share their work with the community. The series honors Antonya Nelson and Robert Boswell, who began their teaching careers at the university.
Lauren Camp, an Arab American poet serving as New Mexico Poet Laureate from 2022 to 2025, has received recognition through a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. She has authored eight books of poetry, including “In Old Sky, Poems inspired by the Grand Canyon,” published by Grand Canyon Conservancy in 2024. Accompanying her will be Maxwell Griego, an NMSU Master of Fine Arts candidate in poetry, who will read from his thesis before Camp's presentation.
The event is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 28 at NMSU’s Creative Media Institute Theatre located in Milton Hall, room 171.
Camp's work focuses on themes such as immigration and the Southwest landscape. Her contributions have earned fellowships from organizations like the Academy of American Poets and Black Earth Institute and she has completed 14 residencies across the United States. In 2022, she was named the fourth Astronomer-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park. Her poems have been translated into several languages including Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, French, and Arabic and have appeared in publications like New Ohio Review and Kenyon Review.
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