Existe la falsa nostalgia? ¿Qué es lo que decidimos recordar cuando volvemos a nuestras épocas de tránsito? Acompaña al escritor chileno radicado en Chicago Antonio Díaz Oliva (ADO), y a las escritoras mexicanas Yael Weiss y Claudina Domingo en esta charla
Acompaña a Lucía Cornejo y Joel Craig en una nueva celebración de Poesía y Música en el Jardín Secreto.
Únete a esta charla donde poetas de México y Chicago nos comparten sus experiencias como escritorxs que forman parte de la comunidad LGBT+
Nuestra Herencia: Proyecto Cinematográfico de Legado reúne una serie de cortometrajes documentales que exploran historias, jardines y legados a través de las vidas de 10 jardineros mayores de El Paseo Jardín Comunitario en el vecindario de Pilsen en Chicago.
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.
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 Daniel Borzutzky as he discusses this one-of-a-kind anthology with editor Ruben Quesada and contributors Sheryl Luna and ire'ne lara silva.
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).
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."
The 2022 festival is themed “Revision”—re-envisioning the arts in light of the pandemic, reconsidering the canon, and revising (language) for the future.
Join us for a virtual keynote address with poet and editor Anthony Cody, author of Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, 2020).
¿Cómo influye la poesía en tu arte visual, ensayos, performance y obras de ficción? En una conversación moderada por Rocío Cerón, poeta multidisciplinaria de la Ciudad de México, los poetas de Chicago Krista Franklin y José-Luis Moctezuma, más un invitado mexicano sorpresa, considerarán esta pregunta y leerán algo de su esclarecedora obra.
Acompáñanos a esta celebración llena de poesía y música con poetas de Ciudad de México y Chicago.
Cuatro autores bastante conocidos tanto por sus ensayos como por su obra de ficción acompañan a Miguel Jiménez, Director de Lit & Luz Book Club, para una animada discusión.
Virtual taller de poesía, con cupo limitado, con la reconocida poeta y performer mexicana Rocío Cerón. En español.
Close out a week of festival programs with with a special performance by Mexican poet Rocío Cerón and Chicago-based jazz project Algoritmo.
Join us for this multilingual conversation on contemporary Mexican literature with three of its brightest stars, Jazmina Barrera, Rocío Cerón, and Pergentino José.
In this virtual program co-organized by El BieSMan’s Franky Piña, authors Amrita Das, Naida Saavedra, and Santiago Vaquera Vásquez discuss the Spanish-language literary boom in the US: publishing, graduate programs, and more.
Join us for a reading and conversation with Mexican author, editor, and translator, Jazmina Barrera.
Join us for a reading and conversation with Oaxacan author Pergentino José was born in 1981 in Buena Vista, San Agustin Loxicha, a village in the Pacific highlands of Oaxaca.
Limited space available for this poetry workshop with world-renowned poet and performer, Rocío Cerón.
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MAKE acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.
