In collaboration with Accion Latina’s Paseo Artistico free bilingual community art walk, whose theme this month is “Muxeres Keepers Of Culture”, the book tore presents a very specuial afternoon of chingoa poesia with Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, Mimi Tempestt, and Yaccaira Salvatierra.

Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta (they/them/ellx) is a cuír anarquistx virgo Jewish Latinx artist, poet, café worker, and sexual health educator from unceded Tongva lands, now living in unceded Yelamu Ramaytush Ohlone lands. Their first book, The Easy Body, was published by Timeless, Infinite Light in 2017; their second book, La Movida, was released in the spring of 2022 by Nightboat Books.

Mimi Tempestt (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and daughter of California. She has a MA in Literature from Mills College, and is currently a doctoral student in the Creative/Critical PhD in Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Her first book, the monumental misrememberings, is published with Co-Conspirator Press//The Feminist Center for Creative Work (2020). She was chosen as a finalist in the Creative Nonfiction Prize for Indiana Review in 2020, and is a creative fellow at The Ruby in San Francisco. She was selected for participation in the Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices & writers in 2021. Her works can be found in Foglifter, Apogee Journal, Interim Poetics, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. Mimi’s second book of poetry is being released this year by City Lights Books.

Yaccaira Salvatierra’s poems have appeared in Huizache, Kweli, Puerto del Sol, and Rattle among others. Her honors include the Dorrit Sibley Award for achievement in Poetry, the 2015 recipient of the Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize, the Lucille Clifton Memorial Scholarship as a fellow at the Community of Writers Workshop at Squaw Valley, a scholarship recipient for the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, a fellow at VONA, and a recipient of a residency at Hedgebrook. She has been a finalist of various awards such as the Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets and the Lit Fest Emerging Writer Fellowship in poetry. She has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Net. She is an educator and is currently working on her first collection of poems.