Poets Across the Generations 97-98 Carlos Cortez and Carlos Cumpian Guild Complex

Carlos Cortez was born in Milwaukee in 1923, today he turns 74 and we celebrate his accomplishments. His father was a Mexican Wobbly, and his mother a German socialist pacifist? Carlos followed in both of their footsteps. He is the author of Where are the Voices? & Other Wobbly Poems, and Crystal Gazing the Amber Fluid and Other Wobbly Poems, both published by Carles H. Kerr Publishing Company.


8/14/1997 - 8/14/1997


Carlos Cortez was born in Milwaukee in 1923, today he turns 74 and we celebrate his accomplishments.

His father wa a Mexican Wobbly, and his mother a German socialist pacifist? Carlos followed in both of their footsteps. He is the author of Where are the Voices? & Other Wobbly Poems, and Crystal Gazing the Amber Fluid and Other Wobbly Poems, both published by Carles H. Kerr Publishing Company. He is published in the anthology Emergency Tacos: Seven Poets con Picante (MARCH/Abrazo Press). Carlos joined the IWW in 1947 after being released from two years of federal detention as a conscientious objector. During his many years as a Wobbly, many of his poems have been published in the Industrial Worker. He is also a renowned graphic artist, and his wood cut prints were recently featured at the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum. Carlos Cumpian is author of Armadillo Charm, (Tia Chucha Press, 1996) and Coyote Sun (MARCH/ Abrazo, 1990). He has been published in Spoon River Quarterly, Exquisite Corpse, Another Chicago Magazine, and many anthologies. He has won many awards, including two Community Arts Assistance Grants from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and has been honored for his poetry by the Illinois State Library. This is the opening of an ongoing series that will team up poets from different generations, featuring their art and their evolution as artists in both a past and contemporary context. The series, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, wil run from August 1997 to August 1998.

Director
Glenda Fairella Baker

Performers
Carlos Cortez and Carlos Cumpian

Tags: Literary, Rest Of The World, 1997