¡Cultura Poetry Night! with Open Mic
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
6:30-8:30pm Pacific Time via Zoom
Registration link: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/larazmagazine/2191833
¡Cultura Poetry Night! celebrates the culture of people who identify as Raza, Chicana/o, Indigenous, or from their country of origin, whose heritage is rooted in areas that are now Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. A multilingual event with two featured poets, guest poets, and open mic!
Everyone is welcome at this inclusive event presented by Poetry
Center San José, hosted by Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo, in partnership with La Raíz
Magazine.
Free tickets are available. Donations are appreciated.
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About the Featured Poets
Sammy Herrera is a Mexican-American educator, poet, spoken-word-artist, and zine queen
from the La Puente. She writes on feminism, racism, working with children, mental health,
love, and heartbreak. She’s placed 1st in both the OC Poetry Slam and Pomona Slam. She is
currently working on her debut poetry collection, Empty Fields of Sunflowers.
www.prettypetitepoems.com IG: @prettypetitepoems
Montezuma III Zepeda, a Caxcan artist from Ameca, Jalisco, creates powerful, multi-disciplinary
art that challenges colonialism and affirms Indigenous sovereignty. Through raw expression and
cultural memory, M3 reconnects the Native diaspora with ancestral pride, weaving art as resistance,
medicine, and a call to rise across stolen lands. http://linktr.ee/moctezumaiii IG: @montezuma_iii
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