CantoMundo

CantoMundo is an American literary organization founded in 2009 to support Latino poets and poetry. " CantoMundo hosts an annual poetry workshop for Latinx poets that provides a space for the creation, documentation, and critical analysis of Latinx poetry."

CantoMundo was founded in 2009 in San Antonio, Texas by Norma E. Cantú, Celeste Mendoza, Pablo Miguel Martínez, Deborah Paredez, and Carmen Tafolla.

The first CantoMundo Conference was held in 2010 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico with subsequent conferences at the University of Texas, Austin. Beginning in 2017, the writer's workshops will be held at Columbia University, in New York City for three years.

Since its inception, CantoMundo has had the privilege of hosting workshops with esteemed authors including: "Martín Espada, Demetria Martinez, Naomi Ayala, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aracelis Girmay, Roberto Tejada, Willie Perdomo, Valerie Martinez, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Dr. Rafael Campo, Sandra María Esteves, Leticia Hernandez-Linares, Barbara Brinson Curiel, Juan Felipe Herrera, Dr. Carmen Tafolla, Rigoberto González, and Rosa Alcalá. Our keynote lecturers, selected from among nationally-recognized literary activists, have included Toi Derricotte (co-founder of Cave Canem), Vikas Menon (Executive Board Member of Kundiman), Ethelbert Miller, Natalie Handal, Sherwin Bitsui, Tim'm West, Natasha Trethewey, and Sarah Gambito."

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