09/04/2026
Hey writers! We are excited for Poetry Night 2026 with Craig Santos Perez at 7pm on Thursday, October 15 at Wealthy Theatre in Grand Rapids. We hope you'll come meet Craig and experience his poetry firsthand.
https://www.gvsu.edu/gvarts/craig-santos-perez-27.
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Craig Santos Perez
Poetry Reading & Conversation
Thursday, October 15, 2026
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Weathy Theatre
1130 Wealthy Street
Grand Rapids, Michigan
This event is free and open to the public.
This event is INT 100/201 approved.
Dr. Craig Santos Perez is an Indigenous Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guam. He is the editor of nine anthologies and author of seven books of poetry, most recently Call This Mutiny [Uncollected Poems], and the academic monograph, Navigating Chamoru Poetry: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and Decolonization, which received the MLA Prize for Best Book in Studies of Native Culture and Literature. His work has been honored with the National Book Award, the American Book Award, a PEN award, and the Poetry Society of America Prize.
Perez will appear at Poetry Night for a poetry reading and conversation, as well as for the 2026 GVSU Climate Change Education Solutions Summit. Perez is a poet, editor, essayist, critic, environmentalist and political activist. An important voice in eco-poetics, he describes his work as a mourning and desire to protect the environment from further desecration and a longing and advocacy for a decolonized, sovereign, and indigenous future. His from Unincorporated Territory series uses poetry to touch on the history and ongoing militarization, colonization, and environmental injustice in Guam and the Pacific, often using documents and maps to expose and critique colonial power. In 2010, the Guam Legislature passed Resolution No. 315-30, recognizing and commending Perez “as an accomplished poet who has been a phenomenal ambassador for our island, eloquently conveying through his words, the beauty and love that is the Chamorro culture.”
For more information about this event, email the GVSU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at [email protected]
