Gallery of Poets: Michelle Otero
Schedule
Fri, 20 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
303 Rio Grande NW , Albuquerque, NM, United States, New Mexico 87104 | Albuquerque, NM
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Join Poet Michelle Otero as she hosts our new poetry series featuring many of our wonderful poets that call the Land of Enchantment home! There will be an Open Mic and readings by Andréa Serrano, Lynn Johnson, Marisa Clark, Sara Rivera, and Savannah Rodriguez. Expressions Gallery is a non-profit arts gallery dedicated to providing a physical platform for artists of all mediums that call New Mexico their home! All are welcome! Refreshments available. Suggested Donation $10 - Collectivefrequency.net:: Host::
Michelle Otero is the author of Vessels: A Memoir of Borders, Bosque: Poems, and Malinche’s Daughter. A former Albuquerque Poet Laureate (2018–2020), she co-edited the award-winning 22 Poems and a Prayer for El Paso and New Mexico Poetry Anthology 2023. Founder of ArteSana Creative Consulting and Gozo: a creative feast for women & nonbinary writers in Oaxaca, she uses storytelling to build community and foster healing. She is a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. Her work centers memory, justice, and cultural identity across borders and generations.
Featured Poets:
Andrea J. Serrano was born and raised in Albuquerque's Duranes neighborhood and has been writing and performing poetry since 1994. Her work has appeared in LowWriting: Shots, Rides and Stories from the Chicano Soul; ¡Ban This! The BSP Anthology of Xican@ Literature; Malpais Review; Mas Tequila Review; As/Us; and La Bloga: Online Floricanto. As a member of Hembras de Pluma, she has written and produced two short plays: A History Written in Black Liquid Eyeliner and A Blues For Blinky, and collaborated on Hembras' 2017 piece of Rise: An Offering. She lives in Albuquerque's North Valley.
Lynn Johnson (she/her) is a participatory theater maker, entrepreneur, and cultural strategist. As co-founder and Executive Director of High Desert Playback, she creates theater for social change. Their multiracial, queer + trans-centered ensemble uses performance to amplify historically silenced voices, mobilizing social issues toward collective liberation.
Marisa P. Clark is the author of BIRD, a finalist for several 2025 New Mexico Book Awards (Poetry, First Book, and LGBTQIA+ Author or Subject). A proud member of the queer community, Marisa grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and came out in Atlanta, Georgia, in the bars where the Indigo Girls got their start.
Sara Daniele Rivera is a Cuban Peruvian American artist, writer, translator, and educator. She is a co-translator of The Blinding Star: Selected Poems by Blanca Varela (Tolsun Books, 2021) and co-editor of Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope (Mouthfeel Press, 2025). Her debut book of poetry, The Blue Mimes (Graywolf Press, 2024), won the 2023 Academy of American Poets First Book Award. She lives in Albuquerque with her husband, son, cats, and turtles.
Savannah P. Rodriguez is a native northern New Mexican poet. She is driven by poetry’s potential for insightful storytelling and the preservation of oral history, covering subjects such as cultural heritage and identity, life and death, family, romance, curanderismo, and querencia. Her work has appeared in Howl-The Voice of UNM Taos, El Palacio-Art, History, and Culture of the Southwest, and the New Mexico Poetry Anthology. She resides in Albuquerque and is a registered nurse at the University of New Mexico Hospital.
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