Arte + Sonoro + Poesía
Friday, September 9, 6:00 p.m. at Hideout Chicago
Lit & Luz Presents: Arte + Sonoro + Poesia
Ages 21 and up
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 09, 2022
Show: 6pm // Doors: 5:30pm
$10
A Bilingual Poetry and Music Performance Presented by Homeroom and MAKE/Lit & Luz
Rocío Cerón – reading
Krista Franklin – reading
Bill MacKay – guitar
Paul Giallorenzo – piano/electronics
Mexican poet and performance artist Rocío Cerón has performed for audiences across the world. Often accompanied by musicians, as well as visual effects, Rocío brings new life to poetry readings with her unique vocal stylings. She is the author of multiple award-winning poetry collections and when not touring, teaches creative writing in Mexico City.
Krista Franklin is a Chicago-based visual artist, poet, and book maker whose exhibition Solo(s) opens at the DePaul Art Museum on September 8th.
Rocío and Krista were paired as collaborators for the 2021-22 Lit & Luz Festival Cohort and created a long poem, which they performed together. At this show, Krista and Rocío will be re-united to perform their collaborative work, along with individual pieces.
They will be accompanied by pianist Paul Giallorenzo and guitarist and poet Bill MacKay. This program will also serve as a release event for Bill’s recently published bilingual collection of poems, Movie House / Cine de sala.
· Proof of vaccination required for entry.
· Door staff will check ID and vaccination card.
· Masks are strongly recommended to be worn while indoors.
· Tickets are non-refundable and non-exchangeable
Writing Workshop: Dispersive Materialities
Saturday, September 10, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. at Rudy Lozano Public Library
Join Mexico City-based poet Rocío Cerón for a free writing workshop at Rudy Lozano Public Library in Pilsen,
Seats are full, but there is a wait list!
The Center for Latinx Literature and the Americas invites you to our Poetry and Performance Series, featuring:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo & Rocío Cerón with Program for Writers at UIC Students: Eniko Vaghy and Michael Williamson
Monday, September 12, 2022 at 6:00 pm at Madison Street Books1127 W Madison St. Chicago, IL 60607
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate. He is the author of the collection Cenzontle (2018), which won the 2017 A. Poulin Jr. prize, and the chapbook Dulce (2018). His memoir, Children of the Land (2020), is his most recent publication. His work has appeared or been featured in The New York Times, PBS Newshour, People Magazine en Español, The Paris Review, Fusion TV, Buzzfeed, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, New England Review, and Indiana Review, among others. He currently teaches in the Low-Res MFA program at Ashland University.
Rocío Cerón was born in Mexico City in 1972. Her work is experimental, combining poetry with music, performance, and video. Her books of poetry include Basalto (2002), Imperio/Empire (2009, interdisciplinary bilingual edition), Tiento (Germany, 2011), and Diorama (2012). Her poems have been translated into English, Finnish, French, Swedish and German, and she has performed her work at venues in Denmark, England, France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States.
Eniko Deptuch Vaghy is poet whose work has been recognized by the Academy of American Poets College Prize in the graduate division. Her work has appeared in Cordella Magazine, Luna Luna Magazine, Rogue Agent, and Yes Poetry. She is currently a PhD student in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is the Founding EIC of the literary journal Lover’s Eye Press. She is also co-host of The Lover's Eye Press Podcast, co-curator of The Lover's Eye Press + Filth Reading Series, as well as an artist whose work focuses primarily on collage and embroidery.
Michael Williamson (they/them) is a PhD student at UIC'S Program for Writers. Their fiction has been published in storySouth, Permafrost Magazine, Typehouse Magazine, and many other journals.
The Center for Latinx Literature of the Americas brings together writers, artists, activists, faculty members, students and the Chicago community to study, create, and celebrate new and innovative modes of literature, art and criticism. The Center is housed in the English and Latin American and Latino Studies Departments with the mission of positing a model for literary production that is interdisciplinary, border crossing, and which reflects the ways in which Chicago is a multilingual, diasporic city of the Americas. We focus on art and literature that is politically engaged and inseparable from larger questions of race, social justice, language equality and human rights. We are transhemispheric, and committed to artistic exchange between writers in the U.S. and Latin America. And we believe that translation and multilingual experimentation ought to be at the center of U.S. literary culture, and not the margins.
