Join us for a presentation of recent and on-going works by 2022 Lit & Luz Festival participant and visual artist, Balam Bartolomé, hosted by the Open Practice Committee.

Join us for a virtual keynote address with poet and editor Anthony Cody, author of Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, 2020).

The Lit & Luz Book Club and Contratiempo are honored to present Mexican poets, Dolores Dorantes, yolanda segura, essayist Mariana Oliver, as well as literary translator and poet Robin Myers at this reading and conversation.

¿Cómo operan las relaciones entre política y afectos? Hemos escuchado desde los discursos feministas que lo personal es político pero, ¿qué pasa si invertimos la frase?

Poets Maya Marshall and Marty McConnell founded the online journal Underbelly "to bring to the surface what we often strive to make invisible: the joyful, arduous, miraculous, by turns tender and brutal process of shepherding a poem from its primal state to its final state."

A diferencia de otros géneros literarios, la definición de ensayo aparenta ser difusa.

Una lectura y conversación con la poeta yolanda segura.

Join UIC’s Center for Latinx Literature of the Americas they welcome Dolores Dorantes (poet) and Robin Myers (poet and translator).

At this bilingual storytelling event, author Carolina A. Herrera hosts an exciting group of writers and artists sharing their take on “Revision.”

Join us for a reading and conversation with the award-winning essayist, Mariana Oliver.

Join the Lit & Luz Festival as we celebrate a week of programs and our exceptional participants.

All are welcome to join Julio Enríquez-Ornelas for this interactive creative writing workshop, moderated by Dr. Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez.

In this workshop with poet and translator Robin Myers, participants will engage with poems in the second and third person; discuss voice and point of view; and experiment with form and sound as a way to expand (or condense) the scope of their poems.