AWP Panel: Poet Community Leaders: A Letras Latinas Reading and Discussion
Fri, Mar 06
|Baltimore Convention Center
Cárdenas will read and speak on a Letras Latinas panel at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference, Ballroom II, Baltimore Convention Center
Time & Location
Mar 06, 2026, 10:35 AM – 11:50 AM EST
Baltimore Convention Center, 1 W Pratt St, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA, Ballroom II
About the event
Cárdenas, Cloud del Fina Cardona, Karla Cordero, and Raina J. Leon will read from their work and converse on the topic of community leadership at this four-day writing conference. See https://conference.awpwriter.org/LL2026.cfm.
Panel Description: When you are active in your local literary community, how do you carve out time to maintain a writing practice? After reading from their work, the poet laureate of Wisconsin, the cofounder of a vibrant reading series in Philadelphia, and the executive director of a community-based literary organization in California will share insights on the challenges of balancing their artistic practice while also serving their local communities.