Contemporary Latin American Environmental Poetry

This poetry reading highlights contemporary Latin American poetry that actively shapes visions of sustainable collective futures in the face of climate and political crises. Contemporary poets Eliana Hernández Pachón (Colombia), Nicole Cecilia Delgado (Puerto Rico), Carlos Orellana (Guatemala), Daniel de los Ríos (Perú), and Carolina Sánchez (Colombia) employ archival and documentary approaches to register and reimagine environmental realities—including hurricanes, extractivism, resource scarcity, machines, consumption and supermarkets, and forced migration—demonstrating poetry’s unique power to imagine alternative futures and foster ecological care. This reading will bring together local Latin American poets (Carlos Orellana, Daniel del los Ríos, Carolina Sánchez) and two invited poets (Eliana and Nicole), who will be in town to present their work at Tulane University.