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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Poetry Archive		Valerie Martínez Valerie Martínez's first book of poetry, Absence, Luminescent (Four Way Books, 1999) won the Larry Levis Prize and a Greenwall Grant from the Academy of American Poets. Her second book of poems, World to World, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2004. Strongly committed to community work, Valerie is a member of the core creative team of Littleglobe, Inc., an artist run non-profit. Littleglobe's most recent project was "Memorylines: Santa Fe, Voces de Nuestra Jornada" a community performance commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera as part of its 50th anniversary celebration. Memorylines is an intergenerational, inter-media, new opera performance project created through intensive ensemble work by a diverse artist team and 18 participants drawn from the wide range of Santa Fe communities. It premiered in May 2007 at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe.

from Each and Her Valerie Martínez

1. in this way could she 2. we sit up straight eyes red-rimmed after a spanking in the restroom of the Shangri-La Chinese restaurant Juarez 1966 whenever she tells this she says pitiful and she feels bad 3. they pack what they have move north from Durango, Sinaloa, Nuevo León, Coahila an historical map ondulando sometimes at midnight the factory bus ride home 6. between the border and Mexico City three thousand maquiladoras more than a million workers at fifty cents an hour really no one fails to notice a new purchase Rivera's girl on her knees sky-blue bound shoulders behind his thick feet enormous bale of calla lilies lifted to her back 12. 1995—nineteen by September 1996—sixteen between April and November 1997—seventeen between the ages of 10 and 30 1998—twenty-three including Roció Barraza Gallegos strangled by a police officer assigned to the murdered women case

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