Leticia Hernandez: California Poets Part 11, Three Poems

Leticia Hernandez

October 20th, 2026

California Poets: Part XI

Leticia Hernandez

Three Poems

Author Bio:

Leticia Hernández-Linares is an award-winning bilingual, interdisciplinary writer, artist, and racial justice educator. She is the author of Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl, Alejandria Fights Back! ¡La lucha de Alejandria! and co-editor of The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States. Widely published, her work appears in anthologies such as Maestrapeace, San Francisco’s Monumental Feminist Mural and Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology.  She has created numerous interdisciplinary performances and art installation projects and has performed her poemsongs throughout the country and in El Salvador. She has lived, created, taught, & protested in the Mission (unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land) for thirty years and teaches in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies at SFSU.