Happy Release Day to Chelsea Guevara and CIPOTA!

From Chelsea about Cipota

My book Cipota is written and edited and available to the world today. It is a collection of stories from Salvi girlhood in the diaspora, notes on my own navigation of life and relationships, and lessons on becoming more sure of myself while also being less sure about the future.

This book is a product of love made possible by my families and communities who pour into me everyday, and I’m in giddy shock every time I read my name on the spine.

Working with Button Poetry to develop this collection has been so much dreamier than I could have ever wished for. I’m so grateful to work with a team that truly cares about my relationship to the work, and has provided their constant support, expertise, and vision into making this real and beautiful.

To everyone who has been a part of this process with me, I love you and thank you so much.

To anyone who asks me how I’m doing today, I’m releasing my first book 🙂 and you should get a copy or two here <3 – Chelsea Guevara

More about Cipota

Chelsea Guevara’s Cipota breathes a lineage into a song—making music of ancestral memory: dirges of heartbreak and generational trauma, anthems of rage and reclamation, ballads of love and homecoming.

Guevara’s voice enchants as she delves into history, ancestry, and the self—reaching for a lineage that has been battered by strife and strangled by colonialism. She moves through place and memory with deft skill and earnest humanity. Cipota examines the grief of culture lost, of a home you’ve been separated from, one that doesn’t truly feel like yours. 

Cipota is a beating heart that demands to be heard. You will be rapt from start to finish.

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Happy Release Day to Daniel Elias Galicia and STILL DESERT!

Statement from Author:

“STILL DESERT is a collection of poems about the border: a place where life is too often stunned into stillness by tragedy and the crisis that is the border itself.

In that stillness, how do we seek peace, rights for humans and animals, reconciliation, hope, survival, and healing and renewal? In these poems, racism, xenophobia, hatred, bigotry, loss, and death clash against our universal longing for love, fulfillment, empowerment, and a sense of belonging and home.

From this tension emerges a poetic desire to find a painful yet important beauty in the lived experiences of this region’s people. The collection moves through a landscape scorched by the desert sun’s oppressive heat, where each poem searches for relief, redemption, and the rare, precious gift of rain.”

More about Still Desert:

Finalist for the 2023 Button Poetry Chapbook Prize, Daniel Elias Galicia’s debut collection, Still Desert sings with histories both haunting and enchanting.

Artistically and linguistically dynamic, Galicia’s poems weave personal and historical narratives of immigration, assimilation, and Mexican heritage. Still Desert lingers in the spaces between borders and crossings, breathing in rich, tactile environments and raw, complex emotions. With a musical rage and a sacred love, Galicia speaks to unsung lineages and the violences found before, during, and after crossing the border.

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Happy Publication Day to Forgotten Necessities!

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“I’m not mad I sold my youth, just that I sold it so cheap.”

Jared Singer in Forgotten Necessities
 

In his anticipated second collection, Forgotten Necessities, Jared Singer wears love and loss on his skin.

 

Through spell-bindingly immersive storytelling, Singer digs to the roots of our deepest woes and cradles our joys with utmost tenderness. Intimacy and vulnerability ache across the time and space of these poems. Forgotten Necessities holds its sadness sacredly and builds shrines to the hope that follows. Persistent reminders of the small kindnesses that make a life meaningful to the living and the dead. A brilliant follow-up to his debut, Singer’s Forgotten Necessities is itself a necessity, a haunting that heals.

 

Check out a performance from Jared Singer down below!

 

 

 

About Jared:

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Jared Singer is an Audio Engineer and poet who lives in Secaucus, NJ. While he may have physically grown up with his peers, he has never forgotten the imagination, magic, and nerdiness that were cornerstones of his childhood. He hopes to remind others of these more creative times. He has also appeared on the Indiefeed Performance Poetry Podcast. He has represented New York eight times at the National Slam level, including two final stage appearances at the National Poetry Slam. Jared has long believed in the healing power of the mountains, kittens, and lists of three.

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Performed at Queen Bee’s Art and Cultural Center in San Diego, CA

“I know a few things about forgiving. It’s harder than it looks but it feels a lot better than it sounds.”

Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at Queen Bee’s Art and Cultural Center in San Diego, CA

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Performed at IWPS 2015

“You will either play fetch with this money or be thrown into your crate and that is a metaphor.”

Don’t miss this poem from Junious ‘Jay’ Ward, performing at IWPS 2015

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Performed at IWPS 2015

“Sooner or later you will realize that you are praying to your own shadow; that you are standing in front of mirrors and are worshipping your own reflection.”

Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at IWPS 2015

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Performed at IWPS 2015

“I know what it means to embrace a blossom of angles that is both delicate and difficult.”

Don’t miss this poem from Junious ‘Jay’ Ward, performing at IWPS 2015

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Performed at Rustbelt 2015

“No breaking things and putting them back together like nothing happened. This includes yourself.”

Don’t miss this poem from Siaara Freeman Bebe’s Kids, performing at Rustbelt 2015

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Performed at IWPS 2015

“I’m not saying you should end the world, but you could at least knock over a mailbox.”

Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at IWPS 2015

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Performed at IWPS 2015

“It’s okay to not be liked bitches. On our own until infinity bitches.”

Don’t miss this poem from Melissa Lozada-Oliva, performing at IWPS 2015

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