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On Monday, I had the pleasure of sitting down in the studio with New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp. We talked about her new poetry collection, Worn Smooth Between Devourings<\/em><\/a>, and Imagine Nature<\/em><\/a>, a coloring and activity book from the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think of this book as very much a love letter to New Mexico,\u201d Camp said of her new book. \u201cThis has poems both about the wonder, the awe of New Mexico, and witnessing. There\u2019s a lot of environmental attention here, a lot of attention to the biosphere, to the fires, to the intensifying heat, the drought.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the world speeds up and crisis after crisis unfolds, I find myself yearning toward the quiet of poetry\u2014not to escape the world or turn my attention from it\u2014but to navigate manageable steps toward community, healing, action, and dialogue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Camp\u2019s words resonated with me this week, especially when she said \u201cFor me, one of the things that poetry taught me was patience and a sort of generosity to myself. \u2026. I don\u2019t think we have a culture that is slow now, ever, anymore. And I keep holding this space open for poetry, for myself and trying to do it for anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please tune in Friday night for the full conversation on New Mexico in Focus and check out our YouTube<\/a> and Instagram<\/a> pages for video of Camp reading two of her poems from Worn Smooth Between Devourings<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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