Two amazing poets celebrate their new libros in our galeria tonight!

León Salvatierra is a poet from Nicaragua who migrated to the U.S. at the age of 15. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Davis and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UC Berkeley. León’s poetry collection, Al Norte/To the North, was first published in Nicaragua in 2012 and has now been published in a bilingual edition by the University of Nevada Press. Leon’s poems have appeared in Paterson Literary Review, Poetry Magazine, The Notre Dame Review, The Best American Poetry, Jung Journal Culture & Psyche, and The Wandering Song, Central American Writing in the United States. He’s also the winner of the 2020 Juana Goergen Poetry Prize and an editor for Huizache, Latino Stories, and the New Oeste series at the University of Nevada Press. Leon teaches courses on literature and culture in the UC Davis Chicana/o Studies Department. 

Manuel Paul López’s books include Nerve Curriculum (Futurepoem), These Days of Candy (Noemi Press, Akrilica Series), The Yearning Feed (University of Notre Dame Press), winner of the Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize, and Death of a Mexican and Other Poems (Bear Star Press).  He also co-edited three anthologies, Reclaiming Our Stories: In the Time of Covid and Uprising (City Works Press), Reclaiming Our Stories 2 (City Works Press) and Reclaiming Our Stories (City Works Press), all three generated from a community-based writers’ workshop of the same name that he’s co-facilitated in Southeast San Diego. A CantoMundo fellow, his work has been published in Bilingual Review, Denver Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review, Hanging Loose, Huizache, New American Writing, Puerto del Sol, and The Rumpus, among others.  He lives in San Diego and teaches at San Diego City College.