Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
Sunday, Sept. 8th at 1pm

Carlos Cumpián’s latest book, Human Cicada (Prickly Pear Publishing) marks his fifth poetry collection. Cumpián’s previous collections include Coyote Sun (March Abrazo Press), Latino Rainbow (Children’s Press/Scholastic Books) Armadillo Charm (Tia Chucha Press), and 14 Abriles: Poems. In 2000, Cumpián was recognized with a Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poet Award. He is a member of Macondo literary organization, and a board member of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, as well as a member of an educational non-profit California-based MeXicanos2070. Cumpián is the co-founder of March/Abrazo Press, the first Chicana, Indigenous and Latino/a/x small press in Illinois which was established in 1982.