Mayda del Valle

I had a great conversation with Tanja Babich at ABC 7 Chicago yesterday. You can check out the segment below!

I'm so excited to be starting my tenure as Chicago's second poet laureate. I'm looking forward to this new chapter, and being of service to the greatest city in the world. Come out and celebrate on Wednesday, January 14th, from 6-7 at the Chicago Cultural Center. Let's go Chicago!

As I prepare to start some new chapters I’ve been taking inventory of old work. I really want to share more intentionally how the different facets of my creativity inform each other, how they fit together and also create contrast and tension. Below are some links to a poem I wrote as an interlude for a collab with @velcromc back in the day and some flicks of really dope graffiti I took a few months ago. I’m a 90’s hip hop kid at heart and when I went to PR in 2009 I was introduced to the...