Ydalmi Noriega is the director of community and foundation relations at the Poetry Foundation. She has worked to make poetry welcoming and accessible to the public through the foundation’s readings, book clubs and workshops. For her contributions to the community of poets and writers in Chicago, Noriega was awarded the Adam Morgan Literary Citizen Award by the Chicago Review of Books in 2019. Of her work at the foundation, Noriega says, “We aim to make poetry exciting and accessible to everyone: on the page, in performance, in community.”