Last Sunday’s reading and conversation, “Places We Call Home: Exile, Change and Collective Futures,” at Avenue 50 Studio, featured local poets William Archila, Cynthia Guardado, and Janel Pineda. Together, they explored how U.S. neocolonialism continues to shape the Salvadoran American experience—and the poets who write powerfully about it. Continue reading Places We Call Home
A book review on Inglewood native Cynthia Guardado’s recent poetry collection “Cenizas.” Continue reading Family History: Cenizas by Cynthia Guardado
The release party for Cynthia Guardado’s second book of poetry, Cenizas. It took her 10 years to complete. Continue reading The Release of Cenizas
A book review of Inglewood native, Cynthia Guradado’s, second book of poetry, Cenizas. Continue reading Cenizas
Poet and Professor Cynthia Guardado announces acceptance of latest poetry collection. Continue reading Publication News: Cynthia Guardado
An interview with Fullerton College Professor and Poet, Cynthia Guardado. She discusses her book “Endevor,” a book about the experiences of women of color in America. Continue reading Endeavor: An Interview with Cynthia Guardado
by Brian Dunlap
Over the past two weeks more good news has come to the Los Ángeles-Long Beach literary community. Two accolades for a spoken word album that a L.A. poet has two tracks on, and an honor for a poet writing about El Salvador and Salvadorian issues, plus two poetry releases.
From: razorcake.org
Cynthia Guardado is a fierce and unapologetically brown Salvadorian American female punk rockera, poeta, activista, y profe straight from Inglewooooood, California. Her poems have been published in PALABRA, A Magazine of Chicano & Latino Literary Art; The Packing House Review; and Razorcake’s very own Puro Pinche Poetry: Gritos Del Barrio.
Continue reading “Cynthia Guardado Interview Podcast with Ever Velasquez and Todd Taylor”
In Cynthia Guardado’s debut poetry collection “Endeavor,” she’s “penned 53 very personal poems” about survival—surviving a misogynistic world, surviving the fear and violence of white supremacy and surviving the daily trauma of being invisible to the country at large. Continue reading Endeavor
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