Currently serves as the Deputy Director of the City of Albuquerque Department of Arts & Culture, and was the Inaugural Poet Laureate for the City of Albuquerque (2012-2014). Bellamy is a W. K. Kellogg Foundation Community Leadership Network Fellow and a Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow. In 2012 he published his first collection of poetry, SWEAR (West End Press/University of New Mexico Press), and it landed him the Working-Class Studies Tillie Olsen Award for Literature in 2012. His latest collection Commissions y Corridos is his seventh book and was also published by University of New Mexico Press in August of 2021.

With an M.A. in Communications from the University of New Mexico (UNM), Bellamy has held adjunct faculty positions at the University of New Mexico and the Institute of American Indian Arts. Bellamy has shared his work in no less than five countries, for His Holiness the Dalai Lama XXIV and continues to use his art to change his communities.