https://www.thewordfordiversity.org/margins

Full program schedule

Presenting with Tongo Eisen-Martin and Tara Betts on poets laureate (times are CST)

From the Margins website

“Now is the Time When Artists Go to Work

We invite you to join us at the 5th [margins.] conference---rooted in the call to meet this moment. It is when there is no clear bright light, when our pathways are being stolen and shut down--that is when the creative and complicated ways that we can do good through our work are most called upon.

In 2026, we invite you to join a conference that emerges from the common refrain of past attendees that "[margins.] feels like a retreat." This year, our workshops and panels will take on a roundtable element to each, leaning into that retreat-like feeling of community care by building sessions through conversation, reflection, and imagination that invites participants and instructors to co-create.”