A Celebration of Latina Poets

?A Celebration of Latina Poets? was a program originally presented as part of the reading series Effie Mihopoulos host at the Humboldt Park branch of the Chicago public Library in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month last year.

The featured poets have a variety of writing styles, and hail from a number of different Latinas.

Beatriz Badikian is Argentinean, but a long-time resident of Chicago, where she teaches at Roosevelt University. She?s been anthologized in Emergency Tacos, published by MARCH/Abrazo Press, which also published her first poetry chapbook, Akewa Is a Woman. Her most recent poetry book, The Mapmaker, was published by Red Triangle Books.

Susan Dinas, formerly known to many as poet Susan Hernandez is of Mexican-American descent. She is an avid advocate of the rhyming poem. She has read at the Chicago Cultural Center, the Harold Washington Library, and most recently as a featured reader for the Starwallpaper anthology release party. Elizabeth Marino is of Puerto Rican descent, though she was adopted early on by Italian parents. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago writers program, where she has also taught. Her poems are widely published and have been anthologized in Breaking Mirrors/Raw Images. Effie Mihopoulos? poetry and fiction have appeared in over 200 small press publications throughout the US, UK and Europe. She is the author of two books of poems, The Moon Cycle and Languid Love Lyrics. She is currently the editor of the Chicago Artists coalition newspaper, Chicago Artists? News.