A poetry festival honoring Chicano poet Abelardo “Lalo” Barrientos Delgado will be held Saturday at 800 Kalamath St.
The festival marks a comeback for the festival, which launched in 2006 and occurred every year until 2019. Covid created a vacancy that the Colorado Alliance of Latino Mentors and Authors is filling again, thanks to a grant from the Colorado Humanities. The free event is a collaboration among CALMA, Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Journey Through Our Heritage Program and the Denver Woman’s Press Club.
The festival honors the legacy of Delgado, furthering his mission to promote poetry, literature and social justice within diverse communities. Delgado, a prominent Chicano poet and leader, is considered the grandfather of the Chicano literary movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He moved to Colorado in 1974 and was an affiliate faculty member at MSU Denver for 17 years.
