Voices de la Luna: A San Antonio Literature and Arts Non-Profit

09/18/2026

Join us for American Book Award Winner, Adela Najarro for our second Canto, Grito Workshop supporting writers and creatives.

Tuesday, October 13th 6-8PM CST.

Writing about family is hard. And in a way, we are always writing about family, those who live in our subconscious minds, inhabit our actual lives, populating our conscious minds as possibilities for healing, for storytelling, and for important creative expression. Adela will guide us for a two hour workshop that will change your perception of this complex subject.

Course Description
How to Love the Family Story

Poetry encompasses all and cannot be contained, but where to start? In this workshop, we’ll start with love, with those we love, with those who are tied to our hearts in the complexities of family joy and disappointment. To find truth, we need to dance through the familial mess and come out the other side with a piece of art called a poem.

Thich Nhat Hanh, a renowned Zen Buddhist monk, published a tiny little book, How to Love, and using his words as a starting point, we will dive deep into the complexities of loving the people in our lives.

In addition, join this workshop to expand your poetry toolbox. We will consider how image powers a poem’s trajectory and the indeterminacy of language. There are multiple ways to love and multiple ways to capture those we love in our poems. For whom does your love speak?

Hosted by Voices de la Luna and Yanaguana, this session supports our mission to inspire and promote literature and the arts, and to use creative work for education and healing. Writers and artists of all levels are welcome to listen, draft, share, and grow in community.

Join poet and American Book Award winner Adela Najarro for an immersive Canto, Grito Writing Workshop. 📖✍️ Together, you’ll explore voice, memory, and place,…

09/13/2026

Friends, We are very concerned about our friend and former Executive Director, the poet Viktoria Valenzuela.
Viktoria has been through a very rough summer that culminated in an emergency surgery this weekend and a VERY recent cancer of the thyroid diagnosis that requires surgery on the 21st of this month. Imagine. She is a damn good poet, an amazing mom of 6, and a VERY important member of our community of writers.
She's the associate publisher at the beautiful Conocimientos Press here in San Antonio.
We wish her a full and safe recovery from all of it and we thank her for all the work she did for our non-profit when she was our E.D.

Her friends have put together a Meal Train scheduled for the week of her planned thyroid surgery on the 21st of this month so her family could prepare for meals and to soften the blow of the high medical bills that will be coming, but the surprise surgery today, the result of a full-on emergency unrelated to the cancer, has doubled and complicated her upcoming recovery time. If you would like to lend your support at this very difficult time so that she and her family members literally feel your love, your generosity, and your good wishes, you are welcomed to do so. Here are the details: Venmo () and cashapp (). Thank you - the Yanaguana and VDL team!! THANK YOU!

08/29/2026

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/annual-poetry-festival-singing-waters-of-yanaguana

Hi friends of Yanaguana and Voices de la Luna! We are so grateful to have so many of you here to welcome our FREE online literature and arts journal, Yanaguana, named after the original name of the San Antonio River that stretches from the Blue Hole on the grounds of University of the Incarnate Word to the Gulf of Mexico and has fed animal life and human lives for thousands of years. Our Coahultican ancestors gave this river the name Yanaguana, which can be roughly translated to Spirit Waters and Healing Waters. This is our inspiration behind the name of our new publication. We want to honor this language, these ancestors, this history. This is why we have Singing Waters in our journal, a section dedicated to Indigenous artists and writers which has evolved with the help of Juan Tejeda and Viktoria Valenzuela and which now will be curated by Jen Yáñez-Alaniz. To support this volunteer-run effort and organization, we need to foster sustainably. We need support to amplify emerging and established artists and writers who we bring healing to the world with their labor. To do this we are holding our annual poetry fest this Nov 21! Watch for details. We can’t do this without community. If you can buy a ticket, please do! The light you spread in front of you matters, no matter its size. It is light. The good in the world you can control is huge, is what makes anything and everything possible no matter the perception of its “size” and “impact.” You impact the world every day, and we are grateful or you just for reading this far. As people suffer today, in your community and outside of it, due to natural and other disasters, artists and writers remind us of our best and highest reasons to keep going, to build, to grow, and to love. Our poetry fest is a drop of water in the ocean of challenges in front of of us, but we align with artists and writers who want to face it, who feel it fully, who despite the pain and flinching, come to work and create beauty. Here’s our fundraiser! We hope you can support this day, this initiative, this work for the San Antonio community— residents and visitors alike! Please click, learn more about us, and if you can, help us! If you know someone who has resources and who aligns with our vision, please share with them! Gracias!

Join us for the Annual Poetry Festival: Singing Waters of Yanaguana 🎭📚 November 21, 2026, 2-5 PM, Galeria E.V.A.We are overjoyed to celebrate the Annual…

08/24/2026

SAVE THE DATE FOR CANTÓ, GRITO Workshop 2 of 2026 with 2026 American Book Award Winner, Adela Najarro, author of the award winning Variations in Blue! October 13th, 6-8pm CST. We are overjoyed to welcome Adela to our community! Watch our page for registration info!

https://www.voicesdelaluna.net/workshop-2

07/31/2026

Congratulations to Nicaraguan poet Adela Najarro, who will be our next guest on Canto, Grito Writing Workshop! Yay! Well deserved! This beautiful collection of poetry is all THAT!

07/30/2026

Thrilled to share this! Canto, Grito: a Creative Writing Workshop Series presented by Voices de La Luna

Writers Supporting Writers

🎉 Everyone has a voice. In the arts, we may sing, we may holler. We believe everyone can sing, and we know everyone can holler. Join us for Canto, Grito, a…

07/29/2026

Saturday at 3! Meet the amazing Celeste De Luna and Poet, Author, Speaker ire’ne lara silva who will be teaching for us next month!
Viva San Antonio Art Scene