Huizache,the magazine of a new America, presents a very special poetry reading as part of the San Francisco International Flor y Canto Literary Festival. This event is presented in partnership with the SFPL. Participating poets are;
Yaccaira Salvatierra’s debut poetry collection, Sons of Salt, published by BOA Editions, was deemed one of the "Best Books for Adults 2024" by the New York Public Library. She has been a contributing poetry editor for Huizache and lives in Oakland, where she teaches literacy and poetry to youth.
María Esquinca is the winner of the 2024 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, selected by Juan Felipe Herrera. Her debut poetry collection Where Heaven Sinks will be published in fall 2025. She was born in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, grew up in El Paso, TX, and is currently based in Oakland. María’s poetry was published in Huizache 11.
Lourdes Figueroa is a queer chicanx oral poet & poetry filmmaker. Based in the Bay Area, they have served as a family case manager, domestic violence advocate, housing advocate, interpreter, translator, and community organizer. Lourdes's offerings are the chapbooks yolotl, Ruidos = To Learn Speak, Vuelta, and most recently with La Universidad Autónoma De Nuevo León their long verse poem I will kiss your mouth b/w the overgrown Milpa. Their poetry will appear in Huizache 12.
José Vadi is the author of Inter State: Essays from California and Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder’s Lens. An award-winning essayist, poet, playwright and film producer, his work has been featured by the Paris Review, The Atlantic, the PBS NewsHour, KQED, Free Skate Magazine, Alta Journal, and the Yale Review. He lives and writes in Sacramento. His essay on Rage Against the Machine will be published in Huizache 12.
Vincente G. Perez is a decolonial poet and scholar working at the intersection of poetry, Hip-Hop, and digital culture. His debut chapbook, Other Stories to Tell Ourselves, won an Eric Hoffer finalist award. His poems have appeared in Obsidian, Poet Lore, Honey Literary, and will appear soon in Huizache 12.
hector son of hectoris from Long Beach, CA and currently lives in Oakland. He is the child of Mexican immigrants, works in a hospital, dreams of short stories and writes poetry in secret. His poems will appear in Huizache 12.