Yesika Salgado
@yesikastarr.bsky.social
Poet | Columnist | LA born Salvadoran 🥭✨ please refer all inquiries to booking@yesikasalgado.com
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From @yesikastarr.bsky.social's book, Hermosa: bookshop.org/a/862/9781945649332
#poem #books #writing
#poem #books #writing
September 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
From @yesikastarr.bsky.social's book, Hermosa: bookshop.org/a/862/9781945649332
#poem #books #writing
#poem #books #writing
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August 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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RIP to a true legend. Inarguably in the mount Rushmore of accordionists, along with Ramon Ayala and Esteban Jordan.
San Antonio native and conjunto legend Flaco Jiménez has died at the age of 86. Jiménez's family posted on Facebook late Thursday night that he died following a long illness at his son's home "surrounded by loved ones and will be missed immensely."
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August 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
RIP to a true legend. Inarguably in the mount Rushmore of accordionists, along with Ramon Ayala and Esteban Jordan.
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“ALL ARTISTS, IF THEY ARE TO SURVIVE, ARE FORCED, AT LEAST, TO TELL THE WHOLE STORY.” - JAMES BALDWIN.
let’s tell some stories and be witnesses to each other. email on flyer. 🥭✨
let’s tell some stories and be witnesses to each other. email on flyer. 🥭✨
January 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
“ALL ARTISTS, IF THEY ARE TO SURVIVE, ARE FORCED, AT LEAST, TO TELL THE WHOLE STORY.” - JAMES BALDWIN.
let’s tell some stories and be witnesses to each other. email on flyer. 🥭✨
let’s tell some stories and be witnesses to each other. email on flyer. 🥭✨
“ALL ARTISTS, IF THEY ARE TO SURVIVE, ARE FORCED, AT LEAST, TO TELL THE WHOLE STORY.” - JAMES BALDWIN.
let’s tell some stories and be witnesses to each other. documenting our shared history is more important now than ever. I look forward to working with you. email on flyer. 🥭✨
let’s tell some stories and be witnesses to each other. documenting our shared history is more important now than ever. I look forward to working with you. email on flyer. 🥭✨
July 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
“ALL ARTISTS, IF THEY ARE TO SURVIVE, ARE FORCED, AT LEAST, TO TELL THE WHOLE STORY.” - JAMES BALDWIN.
let’s tell some stories and be witnesses to each other. documenting our shared history is more important now than ever. I look forward to working with you. email on flyer. 🥭✨
let’s tell some stories and be witnesses to each other. documenting our shared history is more important now than ever. I look forward to working with you. email on flyer. 🥭✨
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Dan Sheehan amplifies the call to protect Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha.
Booksellers and publishers are calling for Mosab Abu Toha to be protected.
A group of American booksellers, publishers, and authors have issued a statement calling for Mosab Abu Toha—the award-winning Palestinian poet, writer, and librarian who was detained and beaten by …
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May 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Dan Sheehan amplifies the call to protect Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha.
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March Best Sellers at the Popups:
I Am My Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams
by Tanisia Moore
Robert Paul
Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts
by Ruby Bridges
John Jay Cabuay
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hermosa
by Yesika Salgado
Eres increíble: Diario de empoderamiento
by Pragya Tomar
#Booksky
I Am My Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams
by Tanisia Moore
Robert Paul
Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts
by Ruby Bridges
John Jay Cabuay
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hermosa
by Yesika Salgado
Eres increíble: Diario de empoderamiento
by Pragya Tomar
#Booksky
April 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM
March Best Sellers at the Popups:
I Am My Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams
by Tanisia Moore
Robert Paul
Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts
by Ruby Bridges
John Jay Cabuay
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hermosa
by Yesika Salgado
Eres increíble: Diario de empoderamiento
by Pragya Tomar
#Booksky
I Am My Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams
by Tanisia Moore
Robert Paul
Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts
by Ruby Bridges
John Jay Cabuay
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hermosa
by Yesika Salgado
Eres increíble: Diario de empoderamiento
by Pragya Tomar
#Booksky
I’m writing a poem a day for National Poetry Month. beginning tomorrow I’ll be sharing them at my Substack substack.com/@yesikasalgado
here is todays poem
here is todays poem
April 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I’m writing a poem a day for National Poetry Month. beginning tomorrow I’ll be sharing them at my Substack substack.com/@yesikasalgado
here is todays poem
here is todays poem
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I heard @yesikastarr.bsky.social for the first time yesterday at Night at the Library and WOW! She made me laugh, made me feel connected, made me cry- all in 15 minutes. I'll definitely be on the look out for more of her work.
Thank you Yesika for sharing your voice with us ✨
Thank you Yesika for sharing your voice with us ✨
March 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I heard @yesikastarr.bsky.social for the first time yesterday at Night at the Library and WOW! She made me laugh, made me feel connected, made me cry- all in 15 minutes. I'll definitely be on the look out for more of her work.
Thank you Yesika for sharing your voice with us ✨
Thank you Yesika for sharing your voice with us ✨
I was commissioned by LA Times Image to write a poem about Los Angeles, the fires and our devotion to each other. Grateful to do so. I cannot write our city enough love poems.
www.latimes.com/lifestyle/im...
www.latimes.com/lifestyle/im...
'There must be room for something new.' Yesika Salgado holds L.A. close
In the days after the fires, people around L.A. found pages from books on their doorsteps and sidewalks. Here, we’ve collected some of those pages, and accompanied them with a poem by Salgado.
www.latimes.com
March 8, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I was commissioned by LA Times Image to write a poem about Los Angeles, the fires and our devotion to each other. Grateful to do so. I cannot write our city enough love poems.
www.latimes.com/lifestyle/im...
www.latimes.com/lifestyle/im...
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February 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Decided to read a poem every time I visit my local library … Yesterday I randomly picked “Hexed” from Yesika Salgado’s HERMOSA collection.
December 10, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Decided to read a poem every time I visit my local library … Yesterday I randomly picked “Hexed” from Yesika Salgado’s HERMOSA collection.
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Night at the Library: Building Stories is March 8th & will include performances by BodyTraffic, Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs Distance Duet presented by LA Phil Insight, dublab, Bob Baker Marionette Theater, Yesika Salgado, and Urban Voices Project, among others. www.lucasmuseum.org/event/night-...
Night at the Library: Building Stories - Event | The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
Night at the Library: Building Stories
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February 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Night at the Library: Building Stories is March 8th & will include performances by BodyTraffic, Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs Distance Duet presented by LA Phil Insight, dublab, Bob Baker Marionette Theater, Yesika Salgado, and Urban Voices Project, among others. www.lucasmuseum.org/event/night-...
hi. my name is Yesika Salgado and I just spent an hour crying over cat videos.
February 21, 2025 at 2:19 AM
hi. my name is Yesika Salgado and I just spent an hour crying over cat videos.
Did I turn off the frijoles??!!!!
February 3, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Did I turn off the frijoles??!!!!
left my house at the ungodly hour of 6:45 am and caught my neighbor from down the street making out in a van with his not-wife parked right in front of my house. they shot me a dirty look. lmao, look, sir, I’m upset him out here too!
January 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
left my house at the ungodly hour of 6:45 am and caught my neighbor from down the street making out in a van with his not-wife parked right in front of my house. they shot me a dirty look. lmao, look, sir, I’m upset him out here too!
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@yesikastarr.bsky.social in the Oakland Museum of California!
January 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
@yesikastarr.bsky.social in the Oakland Museum of California!
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Only just now getting a chance to share this beautiful essay by @yesikastarr.bsky.social, the daughter of a former housekeeper in Pacific Palisades. Truly moving and it highlights how interconnected LA truly is www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
I spent my childhood in the Palisades homes my mother cleaned. We're also grieving what was lost.
The daughter of a former Pacific Palisades housekeeper, author Yesika Salgado recounts the home and family that influenced her life and career.
www.latimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Only just now getting a chance to share this beautiful essay by @yesikastarr.bsky.social, the daughter of a former housekeeper in Pacific Palisades. Truly moving and it highlights how interconnected LA truly is www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
an honor to tell a bit of this story for @delosangelestimes
I spent my childhood in the Palisades homes my mother cleaned. We're also grieving what was lost.
The daughter of a former Pacific Palisades housekeeper, author Yesika Salgado recounts the home and family that influenced her life and career.
www.latimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
an honor to tell a bit of this story for @delosangelestimes
“ALL ARTISTS, IF THEY ARE TO SURVIVE, ARE FORCED, AT LEAST, TO TELL THE WHOLE STORY.” - JAMES BALDWIN.
let’s tell some stories and be witnesses to each other. email on flyer. 🥭✨
let’s tell some stories and be witnesses to each other. email on flyer. 🥭✨
January 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
“ALL ARTISTS, IF THEY ARE TO SURVIVE, ARE FORCED, AT LEAST, TO TELL THE WHOLE STORY.” - JAMES BALDWIN.
let’s tell some stories and be witnesses to each other. email on flyer. 🥭✨
let’s tell some stories and be witnesses to each other. email on flyer. 🥭✨
hi. I promise to try and post here more regularly. ❤️
January 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
hi. I promise to try and post here more regularly. ❤️
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From @yesikastarr.bsky.social's book, Hermosa: bookshop.org/a/862/978194...
#poem #poetry #writing #yesikasalgado #books
#poem #poetry #writing #yesikasalgado #books
December 23, 2024 at 4:09 PM
From @yesikastarr.bsky.social's book, Hermosa: bookshop.org/a/862/978194...
#poem #poetry #writing #yesikasalgado #books
#poem #poetry #writing #yesikasalgado #books
grateful for folks who continue adding Corazón, Tesoro & Hermosa to gift lists & book round up’s. it’s been 5 years since I released a book and I hope 2025 changes that. In the meantime, mangos, I’m so grateful for you. siempre. siempre.
December 12, 2024 at 1:22 AM
grateful for folks who continue adding Corazón, Tesoro & Hermosa to gift lists & book round up’s. it’s been 5 years since I released a book and I hope 2025 changes that. In the meantime, mangos, I’m so grateful for you. siempre. siempre.
Nikki Giovanni’s selected poems was the first poetry book I ever checked out from a library and brought home. The first woman I could look at and say “she made the poems work.”
thank you. you giant. ❤️
thank you. you giant. ❤️
December 10, 2024 at 11:02 PM
Nikki Giovanni’s selected poems was the first poetry book I ever checked out from a library and brought home. The first woman I could look at and say “she made the poems work.”
thank you. you giant. ❤️
thank you. you giant. ❤️