CantoMundo, Undocupoets, Letras Latinas, and the Cultivation of Latinx Poetry

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Chapter 5 - CantoMundo, Undocupoets, Letras Latinas, and the Cultivation of Latinx Poetry

from Part I - Shifting Coordinates

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 June 2025

Francisco E. Robles

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William Orchard

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William Orchard: Affiliation:
Queens College, CUNY

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This chapter situates three Latinx literary organizations – CantoMundo, Letras Latinas, and Undocupoets – in a trajectory of institution building dedicated to the support and development of Latinx poetry and poetics. Moving through organizational origins, concrete support strategies, founding members, and institutional alliances, the chapter maps out the practical as well as philosophical outcomes of developing Latinx poetry and poetics as a diverse, multiform set of voices. Coinciding with greater recognition of Latinx poets in terms of fellowship support, book prizes, and publication numbers, CantoMundo, Letras Latinas, and Undocupoets, as well as organizations that have built alongside and with them, have decisively shaped twenty-first-century Latinx poetry and given it many possible routes for future development.

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poetry poetics institutions publishing fellowships workshops prizes book prizes comparative literature

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Information: Latinx Literature in Transition, 1992–2020 , pp. 96 - 112

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009314091.007 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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