Readings from the poetry collection Living on Islands Not Found on Maps (FlowerSong Press, 2022). In these vulnerable pages, there are lessons and conversations with Audre Lorde, Tina Turner, Nikki Giovanni, and Naomi Ayala as well as my ancestors, children, the ocean, and me. All of it centering around inheritance, shame, grief, resilience, spirituality, and the multitudinous roles of women.

Readings from Living on Islands Not Found on Maps as well as from Ascension, and Unfinished Portrait from Tia Chucha's Press.

Interview with Luivette Resto on the Poetic Resurrection Podcast. We discuss her poem Living on Islands Not Found on Maps. How growing up bi-culturally and using Spanglish or as I like to call it “fusion of words”. We had a great time conversing about Puerto Rican culture. I love guests I can laugh with and laugh we did.

Lucy and Luivette discuss Elisabet Velasquez' YA debut novel in verse WHEN WE MAKE IT. Filmed on IGTV

For the longest time, when folx asked me the compulsory question, “Where are you from?” my response would be, “I live in L.A. but I am from N.Y.C.” Eighteen years later, I can proudly no longer say that. I moved to Los Angeles in 2003, but it wasn’t my first time here…

Rodriguez, Resto, Warr, & Harris will read and have a conversation with Delgado as part of the Institute for Inquiry and Poetics. The convening's theme is Beyond the Obvious and seeks to answer the following question: How does poetry create conditions for radical belonging?

Born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, poet Luivette Resto was raised in the Bronx. The first in her family to graduate from college, Resto earned a BA at Cornell University and an MFA at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she studied with Martín Espada.

Born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, poet Luivette Resto was raised in the Bronx. The first in her family to graduate from college, Resto earned a BA at Cornell University and an MFA at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she studied with Martín Espada.

Born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, poet Luivette Resto was raised in the Bronx. The first in her family to graduate from college, Resto earned a BA at Cornell University and an MFA at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she studied with Martín Espada.

Born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, poet Luivette Resto was raised in the Bronx. The first in her family to graduate from college, Resto earned a BA at Cornell University and an MFA at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she studied with Martín Espada.

Born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, poet Luivette Resto was raised in the Bronx. The first in her family to graduate from college, Resto earned a BA at Cornell University and an MFA at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she studied with Martín Espada.

Born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, poet Luivette Resto was raised in the Bronx. The first in her family to graduate from college, Resto earned a BA at Cornell University and an MFA at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she studied with Martín Espada.

Born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, poet Luivette Resto was raised in the Bronx. The first in her family to graduate from college, Resto earned a BA at Cornell University and an MFA at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she studied with Martín Espada.

Born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, poet Luivette Resto was raised in the Bronx. The first in her family to graduate from college, Resto earned a BA at Cornell University and an MFA at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she studied with Martín Espada.