2024 Southern California Poetry Fest: Places We Call Home: Voices of the Central American Diaspora

In celebration of the Library of America's Latino Poetry anthology, Beyond Baroque and Letras Latinas, in partnership with UCLA’s César Chavez Chicana/o/x and Central American Studies Dept. presents a panel with poets of the Central American Diaspora featuring Darrel Alejandro Holnes (Panama), Adela Najarro (Nicaragua), Maya Chinchilla (Guatemala), and Janel Pineda (El Salvador). This gathering reflects the voices of U.S.-based poets whose works explore Queerness, Femininity, and Black Heritage rooted in some of the territories comprising the region of Central America.

This program is presented as part of Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home, a 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 and Emerson Collective.