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.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. One reason Michelle Otero chose “Bosque” as the title for her debut poetry collection was the “Walking With Poets” project she organized when she was Albuquerque Poet Laureate. “I’d invite a local poet to co-host a walk in the bosque. They’d pick a trail and a poet whose work they want to celebrate. We’d stop along the walk to hear a poem and write,” Otero said in an email. Michelle Otero Those walks were open to the public. Usually, a dozen or more people attended. Some poems in Otero’s recently published collection started as prompts from those monthly walks. “The bosque invites you to pay attention. Poetry does the same thing. So there’s a natural connection,” she said.

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