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Lunada Literary Lounge
March 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Save the date to gather with us under the March full moon for Lunada Literary Lounge 🌕
Join Galería on Friday, March 14 at Studio 24 for the Spring 2025 season opener of Lunada Literary Lounge! This month’s features are Adela Noriega and Xochiquetzal Candelaria! Our open mic is available on a first come first serve basis, sign ups will be at the door. Don’t be shy and share your work!
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Adela Najarro
Adela Najarro is a poet with a social consciousness who serves on the board of directors for Círculo de poetas and Writers and works with the Latinx community nationwide, promoting the intersection of creative writing and social justice. The Letras Latinas/ Red Hen Collaborative has selected Variations in Blue for publication in 2025. She is the author of four additional poetry collections: Split Geography, Twice Told Over, My Childrens, and Volcanic Interruptions, a chapbook that includes Janet Trenchard’s artwork.
Her extended family left Nicaragua and arrived in San Francisco during the 1940s; after the fall of the Somoza regime, the last of the family settled in the Los Angeles area. The California Arts Council has recognized her as an established artist for the Central California Region and appointed her as an Individual Artist Fellow.
Xochiquetzal Candelaria
Xochiquetzal Candelaria is the author of two books of poetry, Empire (University of Arizona Press) and Show Me the Bells (Tia Chucha Press). Her work has appeared in The Nation, Colorado Review, Tin House, Huizache, Seneca Review, and other magazines. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and New York University and is the recipient of awards including an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and grants from Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the LEF Foundation. Her writing has been anthologized, most recently in Other Musics: New Latina Poetry, and The Poetry of Capital. She teaches at City College of San Francisco and lives with her partner and two chavalitos.