Poetry Reading and Workshop

Poet and journalist Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, co-founder of the Taco Shop Poets and reporter for LAist, will lead a workshop and reading centered on his new book, California Southern: writing from the road, 1992–2025, which reflects on his life as a Mexican-American and his mother’s work cleaning homes in San Diego. The workshop invites participants whose family members did domestic work to write about their experiences and share their pieces in a community reading.

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Adolfo Guzman-Lopez grew up in Tijuana, National City, and Pacific Beach. In 1994 he co-founded the Taco Shop Poets at the Centro Cultural de la Raza. He’s currently a reporter at LAist in Los Angeles. His first collection of writing includes stories about all that, it’s called California Southern: writing from the road, 1992-2025. It’s published by Hinchas de Poesia Press. Adolfo lives in Long Beach with his family.

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This free workshop is provided by Space 4 Art and sponsored by The Prebys Foundation. The Arts Ecosystem grant aims to bring more art funding to the San Diego Art Economy. The grant is part of the Prebys Foundation’s 2025 Emergency Arts Investment, which responds to significant challenges facing the region’s arts sector, including federal and state funding cuts, rising operational costs, and the need to preserve vital community spaces for creativity.

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