Join us for a very special evening celebrating Claudia Castro Luna’s new book of poesia Cipota Under The Moon published by Tia Chucha’s Press.
Joining Claudia will be fellow poets Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta and MK Chavez. Hosted by the one and only Leticia Hernandez-Linares.
Claudia Castro Luna is an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate fellow (2019), WA State Poet Laureate (2018 – 2021) and Seattle’s inaugural Civic Poet (2015-2018). Castro Luna’s newest collection of poetry, Cipota Under the Moon, is forthcoming April 2022 from Tia Chucha Press. She is also the author of One River, A Thousand Voices (Chin Music Press), the Pushcart nominated Killing Marías(Two Sylvias Press) also shortlisted for WA State 2018 Book Award in poetry, and the chapbook This City (Floating Bridge Press). Her most recent non-fiction is in There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis (Vintage). Born in El Salvador she came to the United States in 1981. Living in English and Spanish, Claudia writes and teaches in Seattle on unceded Duwamish lands where she gardens and keeps chickens with her husband and their three children.
Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta is a queer anarchist Nicaragüense Jewish artist and writer. They are the author of The Easy Body (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2017), a book-length poem that grew out of their research on the role of reproductive labor in Latin American revolutionary movements, their own matrilineal history and experiences navigating reproductive healthcare in the United States as a poor queer person of color; & La Movida (Nightboat Books, 2022), a collection of anti-fascist love poetry. They have written about Central American migrant caravans, the history of U.S. immigration policy, Latinx activist youth in Idaho, & the psychosensual geography of Los Angeles. Tatiana lives in a rent-controlled apartment on the unceded ancestral lands of the Raymatush Ohlone people.
MK Chavez is an Afro-Latinx writer and educator. She is the author of Mothermorphosis, and Dear Animal (Nomadic Press), and the lyric essay chapbook A Brief History of the Selfie. Chavez curates the reading series Lyrics & Dirges and is co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. She is a recipient of the Alameda County Arts Leadership Award, the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and the 2021 San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press literary award. Her most recent work can be found in the Academy of Poets Poem-A-Day series and at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco with the Voice of Trees projects.
Leticia Hernández-Linares is an interdisciplinary writer & racial justice educator. She is the author of Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl & Alejandria Fights Back/La lucha de Alejandría. Co-editor of The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, she has convened and collaborated with Salvadoran and Central American artists and writers both nationally and internationally. For over two decades, she has lived, taught, created, and protested in the Mission District of San Francisco, and she currently teaches in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University.
NOTA: This beautiful evento is part of The San Francisco International Flor Y Canto Festival happening LIVE on 24th street June 9-11. Visit the Flor Y Canto IG page for more information and to see a schedule of events.