!Join the San Francisco Flor Y Canto International Literary Festival as we present our Community Award to Cathy Arrelano!

!There will be poesia, pozole and plenty of Mission LOVE as we honor one of La Mision’s most beloved and chingona poets!

This evento is part of the San Francisco Flor Y Canto International Literary Festival.

Cathy Arellano is just another Mexican lesbian poet from The Mission. Arellano’s writing can be found in print and online, including As Us: A Space for Women of the World, La Bloga, Curve Magazine, Duke City Fix, El Tecolote, Feminist Formations, Huizache: The Magazine of Latino Literature, La Voz de Esperanza, Label Me Latino: Journal of Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Latino Literary Production, The Malpaís Review, The Más Tequila Review, Poetry in Flight/Poesía en Vuelo, Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice, Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary & Arts Journal, and Turtle Island to Abya Yala: A Love Anthology of Art and Poetry by Native American and Latina Women. They are the author of two books of poetry “I Love My Women, Sometimes Thye Love Me” and “Salvation on Mission Street”

Prado Gomez is a Mestizo American man (of trans experience) born and raised in the Mission District. He is a proud staff member of the Shanti Project where he is Facility and Pet Food Bank Director at their Mission Campus. Prado is a product of the sex-positive, politi-teatro, queer Latinx menudo of the 90s in San Francisco. He is sometimes a writer and always a singer of various genres of music including Mexican rancheras, gospel, classical and R&B He currently makes his home in El Sobrante with his multi-species family.