The Institute for Latino Studies and the Initiative on Race and Resilience present Afro-Latinx Poetry Now, September 27–28, 2022, at the University of Notre Dame's McKenna Hall Conference Center. 

The six sessions that make up this two-day gathering will strive to create space to center Blackness within the literary community. The visiting poets will be joined by six scholars, who will each illuminate the poets’ oeuvre, respectively, at two sessions. In addition to performing their poems at evening sessions, the poets will each deliver talks on an Afro-Latinx poet of their choosing. In all, then, the work of twelve artists will be celebrated. These in-person sessions will be live-streamed and recorded for maximum amplification.