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Hakim Bellamy is a two-time National Champion in the Poetry Slam scene. He was a member of the 2005 National Poetry Slam Champs Team Albuquerque in his first year of poetry slam, and a year later the 2006 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational Champs, Team UNM. He has won the City Grand Slam Championship in Albuquerque (2005) and in Silver City (2008) as well as 3 consecutive University of New Mexico LOBOSLAM titles.

His poetry has been published in Albuquerque inner-city buses as a winner of the RouteWords Competition (2005). He’s been published in the Harwood Anthology (2006), the Earthships Anthology (2007), Sin Fronteras Journal (2008), A Bigger Boat published by UNM Press (2008) and Looking Back at Place (2008).

In January of 2007, Bellamy was recognized as an honorable mention for the University of New Mexico Paul Bartlett Re Peace Prize for his work as a community organizer and journalist. Hakim regularly works with, workshops and works for the many youth poets of this city via presentations at schools, non-profits and community organizations across the state of New Mexico.

He currently works as the Social and Community Outreach Coordinator at the New Mexico Office of African American Affairs .