Círculo de poetas & Writers: Our Events
Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home, April 5th 1:30 to 3:30 PST
Quarterly Writing Workshops on the Four Elements! Join us on April 16th!
Quarterly Writing Workshops on the Four Elements! Join us on April 16th!
Join us for National Poetry Month at the Watsonville Public Library on Saturday, April 5th, from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Free. This is a hybrid event: in person and online!
Local poets Aideed Medina, Christopher Rendon, and Sara Santistevan will read their poems alongside Aldo Amparán, Natalia Treviño, and Laura Villareal who appear via Zoom. The poets will be in conversation with Adela Najarro about Latinidad and the places we call home.
For nearly five centuries, the rich tapestry of Latino poetry has been woven from a wealth of languages and cultures. With distinctive rhythms, lyricism, and candor, and nuanced understandings of place, history, and origin, Latino poets have brought dazzling insight to what it means to make a home in America. We hope to have a lovely poetry reading and conversation!
Free and open to the public. Online and in person at the Watsonville Library.
This program is presented as part of Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home, a major public humanities initiative taking place across the nation in 2024 and 2025, directed by Library of America and funded with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
We also want to thank Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies, for a matching grant that allows us to bring this programming to our Círculo community nationwide.
Go to the Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home website and explore the possibilities of Latino life and poetry!
RESOURCES
- Download the Reader as a PDF or explore its components on latinopoetry.org—just click the tabs under Poems & Poets to get started!
- Explore Poems and Poets
- Explore Themes about US Latinidad
- View videos from poets featured in Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology
- Read the essays for the eight humanities themes for Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home
Quarterly Writing Workshops on the Four Elements! Join us on April 16th!
Quarterly Writing Workshops on the Four Elements! Join us on April 16th!
Quarterly Writing Workshops on the Four Elements! Join us on April 16th!
It's our 10th anniversary! Please join us for a series of complementary quarterly generative writing workshops on Zoom with Círculo Board Member Odilia Galván Rodríguez.
Workshops will occur on Wednesdays at 8:30 pm EST, 6:30 pm Mountain, or 5:30 pm PST. The dates are January 15th, April 16th, July 16th, and October 15th.
The topic for April 16th will be the element Wind in all its manifestations. The workshop included a series of prompts to aid in the writing. All participants were encouraged to share their work. During the remaining quarterly seminars, we will write about the elements of— Fire, and Water.
The August Conference
Quarterly Writing Workshops on the Four Elements! Join us on April 16th!
The August Conference
2025 will be our 10th anniversary! We will hold the conference in-person at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (the MAH) and online via Zoom. Mark your calendar for August 23rd (MAH) and August 30th (online), 2025!
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