Featuring author Chelsea Guevara!
When
1 – 2 p.m., Jan. 23, 2026
Where
The Center for Latin American Studies is partnering with the Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry this spring to host the Charlas con Café Speaker Series – a weekly space to hear lectures from a wide variety of experts and discuss topics relevant to the Latin American region, Fridays from 1-2 pm (unless otherwise specified).
Coffee & snacks at 12:30pm!
Join us for a poetry reading and discussion with author Chelsea Guevara.
Chelsea Guevara’s Cipota breathes a lineage into a song— dirges of heartbreak and generational trauma, anthems of rage and reclamation, ballads of love and homecoming. Delving into history, family, and the self, Guevara moves through place and memory with deft skill and earnest humanity. Cipota examines the grief and joy in storytelling, the displacements and anchors of transnational communities, and the malleability of home and identity.
Chelsea Guevara is a U.S.-Salvadorian poet from Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2024, she won the Womxn of the World International Poetry Slam, becoming the first Salvadoran and the first Utahn to earn a national individual slam title. Graduating from the University of Arizona’s Latin American Studies master's program, she utilizes her academic research to inform her creative work centering culture, history, memory, and identity. Chelsea’s micro-chapbook Somewhere Over the Border was a finalist for the Gunpowder Press Alta California Chapbook Prize in 2023. You can find her work on Button Poetry, Write About Now Poetry, and Mapping Literary Utah.
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