Chicharra is built in community.
Chicharra Poetry Festival is made possible through the generosity, collaboration, and belief of cultural institutions, community organizations, businesses, artists, and individual supporters throughout Albuquerque and beyond.
Their support helps us bring poets together, create opportunities for young writers, build ambitious public programming, and keep festival attendance accessible to our community.
LEAD SUPPORTERS
City of Albuquerque Arts & Culture
We are deeply grateful to the City of Albuquerque Department of Arts & Culture for its generous and enthusiastic support of Chicharra. Their investment has helped us expand festival programming while keeping Chicharra accessible to the community.
Special thanks to Dr. Shelle Sanchez and Elsa Menendez for believing in the festival and helping us imagine what it could become.
The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry
We are honored to receive generous support from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry as a 2026–2027 grant recipient. The Foundation's $3,500 grant supports Chicharra's work to expand access to contemporary poetry, develop new and diverse audiences for the literary arts, and bring poets and communities together through free public programming.
Their investment helps us continue building a larger public home for poetry in Albuquerque and the Southwest.
Explora Science Center and Children's Museum of Albuquerque
We are tremendously grateful to Explora Science Center and Children's Museum of Albuquerque for its generous support of Chicharra and its commitment to our youth programming in 2026. Explora's partnership helped make Voices Rising possible and has allowed us to create new opportunities for young poets to write, perform, learn, and find community through poetry.
2027 COMMUNITY PARTNERS
We couldn't build Chicharra alone.
Our partners provide spaces, expertise, resources, collaboration, hospitality, and countless other forms of support that help bring the festival to life.
BECOME A CHICHARRA SPONSOR
Help us build a bigger public home for poetry in the Southwest.
Chicharra offers sponsorship opportunities for businesses, organizations, and community partners who want to support contemporary poetry, youth arts, cultural programming, and the continued growth of a major annual poetry festival in the American Southwest.
Sponsorship opportunities include recognition across festival materials, digital platforms, live events, and other promotional channels, with options available for organizations at a range of giving levels.
WITH GRATITUDE
Since Chicharra began in 2024, organizations, businesses, cultural institutions, venues, and community members across Albuquerque and beyond have helped make the festival possible. We remain grateful to everyone who has contributed to Chicharra's growth.
Past and present supporters and community partners have included:
Self Serve · Red Door Brewing · El Chante Casa de Cultura · Age of Comics · Dos Burqueños Photography · Albuquerque Isotopes · Carla Forrest Fine Art · Dion's Pizza · Santa Fe Brewing Company · Kei & Molly Textiles · New Mexico United · Topgolf · BarkBox · Albuquerque Social Club · Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce · Astro-Zombies · Cheeky Monkey Tattoo · Ex Novo Brewing Company · Historic Guild Cinema · Hampton Inn · JC's New York Pizza Department · Jimmy Cost · Michael Thomas Coffee Roasters · Echo Bird Press · El Pinto Restaurant & Cantina · Mister Car Wash · New Mexico Piñon Coffee · Opera Southwest · Howl & Embers LLC · Church Street Cafe · The Tap Room at Old Town · Old Town Café · Outpost 1706 · Mothership Alumni · 5D Remedies · Secret Gallery · Historic Lobo Theater · Working Classroom · New Mexico Poetry Out Loud · Instituto Cervantes de Albuquerque · Explora · Albuquerque Museum Foundation · and others.