Video | Looking Back at 20 Years of Letras Latinas: One Poem Festival at Beyond Baroque

One Poem Festival at Beyond Baroque culminates the nation-wide celebration of Letras Latinas' 20th anniversary. Over the 2024 calendar year, events marking this special anniversary have taken place at Arts Club of Washington in Washington D.C., the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona, the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, Illinois, among others.

The grand finale event took place at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in partnership with Alternative Field, Red Hen Press, and Tia Chucha Press, featuring a powerful gathering of twenty prominent and contemporary voices in Southern California, curated by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo and Luivette Resto. The line up features Alicia Partnoy, Aleida Rodríguez, Annalicia Aguilar, William Archila, Rocío Carlos, Anatalia Vallez, Luis J. Rodriguez, Erika Ayón, Lisbeth Coiman, Yago S. Cura, Rhiannon Cielos Chavez, Vickie Vértiz, Jenise Miller, Olga García Echeverría, Christopher Soto, Cynthia Guardado, Adolfo Guzman Lopez, Annalicia Aguilar, and Raul Herrera Jr. The event was MC'ed by poet and Letras Latinas associate, Brent Ameneyro.