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."
Join us for a presentation and conversation with Mexico-based visual artists, Chantal Peñalosa.
At this annual event, Lit & Luz participants read their favorite poems in both Spanish and English and offer explanations of the poems’ significance.
Poet Juan Felipe Herrera delivers the 2021 Lit & Luz Keynote Address.
Lit & Luz is produced by MAKE Literary Productions, NFP, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Donate.
MAKE acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.
