Christopher Soto

Writer

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

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. https://t.co/HzJkMjsZEw

[Christopher Soto @csoto_pdf]

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.

[Christopher Soto @csoto_pdf]

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.

[Christopher Soto @csoto_pdf]

Im wildly excited to start reading this new @EmilyYoon poetry book !!! Love the person, love the poems @AAKnopf

[Christopher Soto @csoto_pdf]

Excited to celebrate Nathan Xavier Osorio’s debut book launch- fellow central am poet in LA @vromans @UPittPress

[Christopher Soto @csoto_pdf]

Thanks to Jan Musial for translating my poems into Czech

https://t.co/5Ljxar31yZ

[Christopher Soto @csoto_pdf]

Spoke w Noname (@NonameBooks) about poetry, rap, and radical Black bookstores for @latimesimage

https://t.co/j17Vrz9cgb

[Christopher Soto @csoto_pdf]

Coming out October w/ @NewDirections. Definitely worth a read.

[Christopher Soto @csoto_pdf]

Reviewed Venita Blackburn’s novel for @thenation

https://t.co/uDKh0puaCU

[Poets & Writers @poetswritersinc]

“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

[𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚌 𝚙𝚒𝚡𝚒𝚎 𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖 𝚐𝚒𝚛𝚕 🍉 @mathewrodriguez]

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!

[Copper Canyon Press @CopperCanyonPrs]

@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: https://t.co/YMAGwjGl7V

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

Juana Maria Rodriguez @radiorodriguez holds her book Puta Life @2023asa

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

“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

[Christopher Soto @csoto_pdf]

@SenSanders Ceasefire Bernieeeee

[Noname Book Club @NonameBooks]

BOOKS OF THE MONTH ✨✨✨
(November)

Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

[Christopher Soto @csoto_pdf]

@katieporteroc @RobertGarcia Very disheartening to have near silence from both your offices as Gaza is bombed. This is not leadership or changing things up in Washington. Please support Res 786 and call for a cease-fire now.

[sam sax @samsax1]

"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" https://t.co/JVpk4JHGAL

[Poets & Writers @poetswritersinc]

#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

[Reynaldo Leaños Jr. @ReynaldoLeanos]

Tonight in NYC @csoto_pdf and @LoneberryWang 🎙