RETREAT
2025 Retreat
Our 2025 annual CantoMundo retreat will be hosted by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona in June. Retreat details will be announced here.
What is the Retreat?
CantoMundo hosts in-person and online workshops, readings, lectures, and professional development opportunities for Latinx poets.
Our primary annual event is a 4-day poetry retreat for Latinx poets that provides a space for the creation, documentation, and celebration of Latinx poetry. CantoMundo aims to bring various latinidades into conversation with each other; these represent diverse poetic styles and heritages in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and indigenous languages. Over the course of the retreat, CantoMundo fellows have the opportunity to take poetry workshops from established Latinx poets and to participate in public readings, panel discussions, and informal conversations. Poetry is not critiqued at the CantoMundo retreat workshops. The workshops are generative and accepted fellows participate in two workshops, one with each faculty member.
Throughout the rest of the year we sponsor (or work with other organizations to co-sponsor) events such as readings or workshops that provide opportunities for our CantoMundo community of poets to teach and to learn from one another.
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Past retreats have been held in Albuquerque NM, Austin TX, New York NY, Tucson AZ, and Tempe AZ.
Applying
Admission to CantoMundo is granted through a competitive process and is not guaranteed. The pool of applicants changes each year, so if you are not admitted the first time you apply, we encourage you to resubmit in subsequent years. Accepted fellows are invited to attend three retreats.
Expenses
Fellows accepted to CantoMundo cover their travel and housing during the four-day retreat. We aim to reserve rooms that are affordable and accessible to all abilities, and we provide most meals. If travel and housing is cost prohibitive for you, fellows may apply for a travel scholarship.
LEARN MORE
You can check out our Past Retreats page to see what we’ve done over the years, or visit our Upcoming Retreats page if you’re interested in knowing more information about our next annual retreat.
Thank you to our funders
CantoMundo’s programming is made possible with the generous support of our funders: Hawthornden Foundation, Academy of American Poets, Poetry Foundation, University of Arizona Poetry Center, and Arizona Commission on the Arts.
