Lourdes Leiner
Lourdes Leiner is a poet, educator, and community advocate based in Arizona. Lourdes has been featured as Arizona's First Writer in Residence at Catalyst Studios (2025) and has received a University of Arizona Poetry Center fellowship. Dedicated to the transformative power of language, she is a current partner with Pima Community College. She regularly leads workshops, readings, and performances that foster creativity and expand access to the arts.
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Poetry in the 21st Century
Panel
Room Three
12:00pm- 50 minutesPoetry goes many place with many styles. It is as vibrant and impactful as ever. Explore the power of poetry as it develops here in this century.If you are a poet now, or ever thought about writing poetry, this panel will give you a great peek into the immersive world of verse.
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Writing as a Humanitarian Act
Presentation
Room Three
10:00am- 50 minutesWriting as a Humanitarian Act: Anthology Series is dedicated to transforming personal experience and voice into collective art.
This workshop invites participants to write with empathy, urgency, and awareness using language as a bridge.
Panel will include an outline of this Anthology starting through the first literary center at the Phoenix Center of the Arts, through the founder, author and educator Lourdes Leiner.
Panel will end with community writing activity.
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You Got AI In My Story!
Panel
Room FourRoom Four
4:00pm- 50 minutes4:00pm- 50 minutesArtificial Intelligence (AI) is here. It is a very hot and debatable topic. But is it all negative? Does AI offer opportunities for the publishing industry?
