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Chelsea Guevara's Cipota breathes a lineage into a song-making music of ancestral memory: dirges of heartbreak and generational trauma, anthems of rage and reclamation, ballads of love and homecoming. Guevara's voice enchants as she delves into history, ancestry, and the self-reaching for a lineage that has been battered by strife and strangled by colonialism. She moves through place and memory with deft skill and earnest humanity. Cipota examines the grief of culture lost, of a home you've been separated from, one that doesn't truly feel like yours. Cipota is a beating heart that demands to be heard. You will be rapt from start to finish.

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Chelsea Guevara is a U.S.-Salvadorian poet from 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. Current student in the University of Arizona's Latin American Studies graduate program, her academic research informs her creative work centering culture, history, and identity. Chelsea's microchapbook Somewhere Over the Border was a finalist for the 2023 Gunpowder Press Alta California Chapbook Prize. Her work is on Button Poetry, Write About Now Poetry, and Mapping Literary Utah.

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