SVMA’s annual poetry pairing embraces the power of the feminine, featuring the fantastical images of Juana Alicia alongside poetry from Latina poets Leticia Hernández-Linares and Dr. Naomi Quiñonez and short story author Jaime Cortez. We will feature wines crafted by local Mexican-American winemakers, including the Puentes family of Honrama Cellars and three generations of the Robledo women at Vintner’s Diary.
Saturday, December 7, 4-6 PM
$20 for SVMA members / $25 for non-members.
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Leticia Hernández-Linares is the first-generation U.S. born daughter of Salvadoran immigrants, she is the author of Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl and co-editor of The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States. Widely published, her work appears in Maestrapeace, San Francisco’s Monumental Feminist Mural, and Other Musics: New Latina Poetry. A four-time San Francisco Arts Commission grantee, she has also received support from the Creative Work Fund and Zellerbach Family Foundation for her interdisciplinary projects.
Dr. Naomi Helena Quiñonez, Chicana poet, educator, and activist, is the author of three collections of poetry: Hummingbird Dream/Sueño de Colibri, The Smoking Mirror, and The Exiled Moon. A recent recipient of the City of Berkeley Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry (2017); she is editor of several publications, such as Invocation L.A: Urban Multicultural Poetry, which won the American Book Award; Decolonial Voices: Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century and Caminos Magazine. She has been a featured poet for numerous readings throughout the country, Mexico, Cuba, and Spain.
Jaime Cortez is a graphic novelist, visual artist, writer, teacher, and occasional performer. Cortez has historically used art and humor to explore sexuality, social justice, HIV/AIDS, and Chicano identity. His collection of short stories titled Gordo (2021) is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California in the 1970s.
