La Guagua Poetry Festival Schedule of Events

Friday, May 5 & Saturday May 6, 2023

MCC's Academic Arts Center
240 Central St, Lowell, MA 01852

Free and open to the public, including lunch on Saturday

Friday, May 5 • 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 6 • 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Find the oficial program of the festival HERE

This year's visiting poets include: 

  1. Vijay Seshadri
  2. Rhina P. Espaillat 
  3. Ruth Vanita 
  4. Marc Vincenz
  5. Philip Nikolayev 
  6. Katia Kapovich 
  7. Vivek Narayanan
  8. Ben Mazer
  9. Doug Holder 
  10. Fadir Delgado
  11. Christina Liu
  12. Amel Bachiri
  13. Eva Salzman 
  14. Salvador Madrid 
  15. Carlos Villalobo 
  16. Raquel López Suárez
  17. Yousif ALhabob 
  18. Azad Iskander 
  19. Jose Edmundo Ocampo Reyes 
  20. Michèle Voltaire Marcelin
  21. Claudio Sanchez
  22. Ariadna Muñoz 
  23. Cayleigh Baillargeon 
  24. Lexi Balevre 
  25. Ramon de Jesús Duval

Languages include: Arabic, English, French, Filipino, German, Hindi, Haitian Creole, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Vietnamese, Urdu, and Sanskrit.

Last Modified: 8/4/23