Christopher Soto
@csoto_pdf
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Los Angeles, CA
Joined September 2015
James Baldwin, who died in December, 1987, “provides endlessly. You think, poring over his letters, that you are getting to know him better—the uncovered lover, et cetera—when the person you are getting to know better is yourself,” @dstfelix writes.
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We commonly associate the writer with the land of his birth—America—and with the land of his expatriation, France. But a fascinating new exhibit focusses on Baldwin’s years in Turkey, the country...
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Finished blurbs for “Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration” forthcoming from Haymarket Books. And “Guardianas” (testimonies from midwives in El Salvador during civil war) forthcoming from Seven Stories Press. Glad these books will be in the world soon.
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Historical fiction about La Matanza in 1932 (a communist-Indigenous rebellion that led to a massacre in El Salvador). These books are published decades apart, written in different languages, and from different countries.
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Im wildly excited to start reading this new @EmilyYoon poetry book !!! Love the person, love the poems @AAKnopf
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Excited to celebrate Nathan Xavier Osorio’s debut book launch- fellow central am poet in LA @vromans @UPittPress
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Thanks to Jan Musial for translating my poems into Czech https://t.co/5Ljxar31yZ
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Christopher Soto (* 1991) je salvadorský spisovatel žijící v Los Angeles ve státě California. Přeložené básně pocházejí z jeho debutové sbírky Diaries of a Terrorist (Copper Canyon Press, 2022)....
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Spoke w Noname (@NonameBooks) about poetry, rap, and radical Black bookstores for @latimesimage
https://t.co/j17Vrz9cgb
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One of the best rappers around has a love for literature, a story that extends back to her childhood.
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Reviewed Venita Blackburn’s novel for @thenation
https://t.co/uDKh0puaCU
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“When I said goodbye to my debut poetry book, I created space for new dreams to come in.” Christopher Soto (@csoto_pdf) on regaining a sense of agency after deciding to move on from one writing project to the next. #PrintOnly
https://t.co/Tjvu8WC6fY
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6 months ago, I left full-time work to pen the book I had to write, a memoir of my father's life with HIV and how it resonates in my life. I'd worked on the book slowly for years and then frantically for months and now ... it's happening! TOUGH GUY is coming from @ABRAMSbooks!
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@poetswritersinc shares a clip from Line / Break: Season 2 with CHRISTOPHER SOTO (@csoto_pdf) talking about his origins as a poet growing up in Los Angeles and the connection between poetry and activism with our publicist, @ryo964:
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Christopher Soto, author of Diaries of a Terrorist (Copper Canyon Press, 2022), talks about his origins as a poet growing up in Los Angeles and the connection between poetry and activism in this...
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“The most shocking thing about my time [in the West Bank] was how uncomplicated it actually is … There’s no way for me, as an African American, to come back and stand before you, to witness segregation and not say anything about it.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates https://t.co/HsDKwIx8Vj
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BOOKS OF THE MONTH ✨✨✨ (November) Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
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"We come together as writers, journalists, academics, artists, and other culture workers to express our solidarity with the people of Palestine. We stand with their anticolonial struggle for freedom"
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#ClipOfTheDay: Christopher Soto (@csoto_pdf) talks about his origins as a poet growing up in Los Angeles and the connection between poetry and activism in this installment of the Line / Break series hosted by @CopperCanyonPrs publicist Ryo Yamaguchi. https://t.co/5eZMrY5vAz
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The application for our Spring 2024 internship program is now live. Please specify your interest in FSG and which department you’d prefer in your application materials. Learn more and apply here: https://t.co/3m8lAq4Ul1
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