Islands and Heartlands is a series of bilingual readings designed to build bridges between Latin American and North American poets and writers.

Poems By Heart brings people together to recite from memory the poems they love. Participants are asked to memorize a new poem each month that someone else has written.

A controversial American writer, Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was a noted patron of the arts, host of a famous Paris salon and leader of the Modernist movement.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984) is considered the greatest Urdu poet of the second half of this century.