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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), Ariel Francisco (US, Guatemala, Dominican Republic) Carlos Orellana (Guatemala), and Carolina Sánchez (Colombia) employ archival and documentary approaches to register and reimagine environmental realities—including hurricanes, extractivism, resource scarcity, machines, consumption, and forced migration—demonstrating poetry’s unique power to imagine alternative futures and foster ecological care. This reading will bring together local US and Latin American poets (Carlos Orellana, Ariel Francisco, Nahum Villamil, Carolina Sánchez) and two invited poets (Nicole Cecilia Delgado and Eliana Hernández), who will be in town to present their work at Tulane University. This will be a bilingual reading in Spanish and English. Nahum Jose Villamil Garcés will moderate.
