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Thursday, March 20, 2025 | 3 pm | FreeIn celebration of the Latino Poetry Anthology from the Library of America.
Followed by a tour of "salt 16: Arleene Correa Valencia" with Emily Lawhead, UMFA’s associate curator of modern and contemporary art.
Join us for a reading by visiting poet Jose-Luis Moctezuma in celebration of the release of the Latino Poetry Anthology from the Library of America. Moctezuma will engage with the work of Arleene Correa Valencia’s "salt 16" exhibition in his reading, which will feature his own poetry and selections from the Anthology. He will then be joined by Michael Mejia, Director of Creative Writing at the University of Utah, for a discussion about the intersections between Latino poetry and visual art. Following the reading and conversation, attendees will be invited to view Valencia’s exhibition and hear from Emily Lawhead, UMFA associate curator of modern and contemporary art.
This program is presented as part of Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home, a major public humanities initiative taking place across the nation in 2024 and 2025, directed by Library of America and funded with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Emerson Collective. This program is presented in collaboration with the Creative Writing Program, Department of English at the University of Utah.
Learn more about the program and the presenters at https://umfa.utah.edu/events/talk/moctezuma
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
410 Campus Center Dr, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Utah 84112
