Serving as an integral component of the Pavilion’s educational programming, the event brings together seven distinguished poets whose work expands the exhibition’s exploration of landscape, memory, belonging, and humanity’s enduring relationship with the natural world.

Developed over the past year by exhibition curator Jeffrey Uslip, the program features poets Kai Carlson-Wee, Chris Hoshnic, dg nanouk okpik, Craig Santos Perez, m.s. RedCherries, Jake Skeets, and Isabel Zapata, all of whom will have work published in the Pavilion’s forthcoming exhibition catalogue.

United States Pavilion to Open at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia With Landmark Solo Presentation by Alma Allen: Call Me the Breeze

The U.S. Pavilion will host an opening event on Wednesday, May 6 at 11 a.m., during the Biennale’s official opening week in Venice, inaugurating the 2026 exhibition curated by Jeffrey Uslip