We hope that you’ll join us in Albany Park this month at ECOS: A Chicago Latine Poetry Festival. The fest celebrates Chicago’s relationship with and influence on Latine poetry. It echoes (“ecos’ in Spanish) the Nezahualcóyotl Poetry Festival, organized in 1991 by Chicago poet Carlos Cumpián and aligns with the September release of Latino Poetry: the Library of America Anthology.
CPC Student Poets at the Poetry Lot Jam: Register for this event here
Friday, September 27 • 7pm
33rd Ward Office • 4747 N. Sawyer Ave.
Join CPC at this free, family-friendly event featuring an opening reading by student poets from Chicago Poetry Center, featured performances by poets Marta Collazo and Julián Martinez, and music by Future Rootz.
This outdoor event is BYOC (bring your own chair), and guests are encouraged to register in advance. The event will include ASL interpretation. For more information about accessibility, please reach out to iblancas@poetryfoundation.org
This is For You: A Poetry Workshop with Maya Odim: Register here
Saturday, September 28 • 12pm
Drake Garden • 4643 N Drake Ave.
Inspired by a poem by Nancy Morejón titled “Bottle in the Sea”, we will discuss the messages people leave for others (stories, advice, histories, jokes, etc.) and messages people have left for us.
Maya Odim (she/they) is a poet who tells stories with words and body language by writing poetry and choreographing guided by words. Believing in the way stories are held by many objects: by bodies, by walls, by pieces of paper, Maya collaborates with different kinds of artists and has performed on stages from those in backyards to those in museums. Maya has been published in the Performance Response Journal, fnews magazine, and received honorable mention in the 2024 ruth weiss poetry contest.
That’s My Heart Right There: A Poetry Workshop with Noel Quiñones: Register here
Saturday, September 28 • 2pm
Movement on Montrose • 2951 W. Montrose Ave.
Inspired by Willie Perdomo’s poem of the same title, participants will discuss the words and phrases we use to express love for each other to each other. Open to all ages, write some love poems together.
Noel Quiñones (They/Them) is an Emmy award winning Puerto Rican writer from the Bronx. They have performed on stages across the country including Lincoln Center, Harvard University, BAM, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Stanford University, and the Honolulu Museum of Art and their work has been published in POETRY, the Boston Review, Gulf Coast, and Pleiades. They are a recent graduate of the University of Mississippi M.F.A. program.
