Sons of Salt; Yaccaira Salvatierra book release

Name: Sons of Salt; Yaccaira Salvatierra book release
Start: 2024-10-19T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2024-10-19T21:30:00-07:00
Location: 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94110

Schedule

Sat Oct 19 2024 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

3036 24th Street, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94110 | San Francisco, CA

Tonight Yaccaira Salvatierra will be reading from her new book of poems Sons of Salt.
With poets Aida Salazar, Norma Liliana Valdez, Leticia Del Toro and a short film by Twodotx.
Hosted by Suzy Huerta Quezada.
Yaccaira Salvatierra is a poet, translator, and dedicated educator teaching for over 20 years. She has received the Dorrit Sibley Award for Poetry; the Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize; the Lucille Clifton Memorial Scholarship as a fellow at the Community of Writers Workshop; and scholarships to the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, Bread Loaf Translator’s Conference, and Macondo. She has been an organizer for the San Francisco International Flor y Canto Literary Festival, she lives in Oakland, CA, where she teaches literacy and poetry to youth.
Aida Salazar is an award-winning author, arts activist, and translator whose writings explore issues of identity and social justice. Her critically acclaimed verse novels and picture books have received numerous awards including: a Caldecott Honor, the Malka Penn Award, the Américas Award, Tomás Rivera Book Award, International Latino Book Awards, California Library Association Beatty Award, Northern CA Book Award, Jane Addams Peace Honor, an NCTE Charlotte Huck Honor among other distinctions. She lives with her family of artists in Oakland, CA.
Norma Liliana Valdez is the author of the chapbook Preparing the Body (YesYes Books, 2019). A member of the Macondo Writers Workshop and a CantoMundo fellow, her poems appear in Waxwing Literary Journal, The Los Angeles Review, PANK Magazine, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal, among others. She has been awarded residencies and fellowships from Hedgebrook, Under the Volcano International, and Community of Writers.
Leticia Del Toro is a Chicana writer from Northern California. Her stories and poetry appear in Huizache, Zyzzyva, About Place Journal and more. She has received residencies and fellowships from Hedgebrook, Storyknife and the New Literary Project’s Jack Hazard Award. Her novella, Café Colima, released in 2018 won the Kore Press fiction prize. All We Are Told Not to Touch, a poetry chapbook, is currently available from Finishing Line Press. Her latest project is a novel called, Return to Azucena. Leticia is the mother of two teens and makes excellent honey orange madeleines.
Suzy Huerta Quezada is a mother, poet, and educator. A Bay Area native, Suzy was born of apricot dreams on cannery conveyor belts and raised on picket lines among the dying orchards of San Jose, California. She is a VONA alum, a Lucile Clifton fellow at the Community of Writers Writing Workshop and a Macondo fellow. Her work has appeared in Huizache, Ursa Major, Cheers from the Wasteland, The Packinghouse Review, Imaniman: Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands, Poesía en Vuelo, and other anthologies.