OUR AUTHORS
WE STILL BE: Poems and Performances
Paul S. Flores
Paul S. Flores is one of the most influential Latino performance artists in the country and a nationally respected arts educator. He creates plays, oral narratives, and spoken word about transnationality and citizenship that spur and support societal movements that lead to change.
My Older Brother, A Famous Rapper
Alyesha Wise
Alyesha Wise is an award-winning, published poet, educator & speaker from Camden, N.J. Currently residing in LA, she is the Director of Programming for Street Poets, Inc., an organization mostly serving juvenile injustice-involved youth with mentorship and arts programming.
ANTHOLOGY - Plays
Herbert Siguenza
Herbert Siguenza was recently the Playwright in Residence for the San Diego Repertory Theatre, thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Herbert is also a founding member of the performance group CULTURE CLASH.
El Viejo
Edward Vidaurre
Edward Vidaurre is the author of nine collections of poetry. Vidaurre’s poems have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Avalon Literary Review, The Acentos Review, Poetrybay, as well as other journals and anthologies.
Paper Birds: Feather by Feather / Pájaros de papel: Pluma por pluma
Sonia Gutiérrez
Sonia Gutiérrez is the author of Spider Woman / La Mujer Araña and the recipient of the Tomás Rivera Book Award 2021 and the International Latino Book Awards 2022 for her novel, Dreaming with Mariposas.
God of the Air Hose and Other Blue-Collar Poems
Ceasar K. Avelar
Ceasar K. Avelar is the second poet laureate of Pomona, CA. His poems speak the truth, not only to people in a position of power, but also to the everyday person that views the working class as a stigmatized identity.
detoxification of the body
gabor g. gyukics
gabor g gyukics (b. 1958) poet, jazz poet, literary translator born in Budapest, Hungary. He is the author of 11 books of original poetry, 6 in Hungarian, 2 in English, 1 in Arabic, 1 in Czech, 1 in Bulgarian and 19 translations.
Matriarchy
Briana Muñoz
Briana Muñoz is a poet from Southern California. She is the author of Loose Lips (Prickly Pear Publishing, 2019) and Everything is Returned to the Soil (FlowerSong Press, 2021).
Coming in 2025
Mountains on Fire (Այրվող Սարեր)
Aram Yardumian
Aram Yardumian is a field anthropologist who works in the Caucasus and Caribbean. His other books include Listen (Errant Bodies, 2022), Persepolis (Bloomsbury, 2023), and The Peopling of the Caucasus (Cambridge UP, 2025).
Yo soy Romero
David A. Romero
David A. Romero is a Mexican-American spoken word artist from Diamond Bar, CA. He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of El Martillo Press.
Blood at the Root
Tshaka Campbell
Poet Laureate Emeritus, Santa Clara County. Originally from London England, Tshaka Campbell was raised on his father’s teachings of solidarity and brought up on orators the likes of Garvey's ‘Pan-Africanism’ to William Churchill, as such, he adopted his father’s intense love of language.
All Brown Boys Get Trumpets
Matthew 'Cuban' Hernandez
Matthew ‘Cuban’ Hernandez is a poet, emcee, speaker, actor, and performance coach from Jacksonville, Florida. He has toured as far as Abu Dhabi and nearly every major city in the United States and Europe, performing, teaching and coaching poetry.
Grab Your Rocks and Throw: A Poetic Revolution
Jozer Guerrero
Jozer Guerrero is a poet/ musician based out of Denver, CO. Jozer’s work has been featured on HBO, MTV, Univision, TED Talks, PBS and American Theater Magazine.
Coming 2025
the daughterland
Chicana Noir and Other Stories (coming soon)
Margaret Elysia Garcia
Macondo Fellow Margaret Elysia Garcia is the author of poetry collections Iconistas! (Lit Kit Collective, 2025), the daughterland (El Martillo Press, 2023), and Burn Scars, (Lit Kit Collective, 2022).
Touch the Sky
Donato Martinez
Donato Martinez was born in in small pueblo, Garcia de la Cadena, Zacatecas, Mexico and immigrated into the USA at six years old. He teaches English Composition, Literature, and Creative Writing at Santa Ana College.
A Crown of Flames: Selected Poems & Aphorisms
Flaminia Cruciani
Flaminia Cruciani was born in Rome. She holds a BA in Archeology and History of Ancient Near East Art and a PhD in Oriental Archeology from the University of Rome, La Sapienza.
Blackout
Anna Lombardo
Anna Lombardo lives in Venice. Poet, translator and cultural activist. Degree from the Cà Foscari University of Venice with a PhD on the marginalization of female poetry at Trinity College in Dublin.
Paint the White House RED
Iris De Anda
Iris De Anda a Guanaca Tapatia poet, speaker & musician who has been featured with KPFK & KPFA Pacifica Radio, organized with Academy of American Poets, performed at Los Angeles Latino Book Festival, LA Times Festival of Books, UNAM in CDMX, CECUT in Tijuana,Mexico, and Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba.
Coming in 2025
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Entre un sueño de poder / Amidst a Dream of Power
Margarita González
Margarita González was born in Puebla, Mexico. She is a poet, seamstress, and community organizer. She works with Colectivo Poder Comunitario (CPC) and is an organizer for Poder Cultural.
El Martillo Press has published these authors in anthologies:
Look What I Did About Your Silence
Edited by Matt Sedillo, Edoardo Olmi, gábor g.gyukics and Loris Ferri
Lorna Dee Cervantes, Luis J. Rodriguez, Tongo Eisen-Martin, gábor g.gyukics, Loris Ferri, Edward Vidaurre, Matt Sedillo, Adam Feinstein, Lynne Thompson, Ewa Chrusciel, Alyesha Wise, Natasha Sardzoska, Yazmin Monet Watkins, Károly Bari, Edoardo Olmi, Cory "Besskepp" Cofer, Rich Ferguson, Susan Hayden, Silvia Rosa, Raffi Joe Wartanian, Angelo Mazzei "Di Poggio," Roland Orcsik, Erzsébet Tót, Ludovica Lanini, Dafne Rossi, Ceasar K. Avelar, Iris De Anda, Natalie Sierra, Margaret Elysia Garcia, Vanessa Torres-Mayorga, Ellen Webre, Solomon Rino, Bernadette McComish, Frankie Hernandez and David A. Romero.
From Venice to Venice / Da Venice a Venezia
Edited by Mark Lipman and Anna Lombardo
Will Alexander, Iris Berry, Rich Ferguson, S.A. Griffin, Susan Hayden, Ellyn Maybe, Richard Modiano, Bill Mohr, Harry E. Northup, Pam Ward, and Gail Wronsky, Giovanni Luca Asmundo, Alessandra Drigo, Giacomo Falchetta, Brigidina Gentile, Fabia Ghenzovich, Alessandra Pellizzari, Adam Vaccaro, Valeria Raimondi, and Zingonia Zingone.
With Dim Lights & Obsidian Tongues
Edited by Ceasar K. Avelar and Cory "Besskepp" Cofer
David "Judah 1" Oliver, Natalie Sierra, Michael Torres, Tamara Blue, Kat Magill, Brian "SuperB" Oliva, Alex Tha Great, Matt Sedillo, Romaine Washington, Ceasar K. Avelar, James Coats, Diosa Xochiquetzalcóatl, Donato Martinez, Lisbeth Coiman, Peter Lechuga, Samantha "Sammy" Herrera, Carlos Ornelas, Daniel Hees, J.T. Shannon, Jesse Tovar, Anonymous1, Joshua Swodeck, Dionne Williams, Mary Tawadros, David A. Romero, Antonio Okira Martinez, Lee Ballinger, Nino Villagi, and Carlos Mares.
Àṣẹ Poetry Slam: Cuban Slam Poets Anthology
Edited by Luz De Cuba and Paul S. Flores
Luz De Cuba, Yordanis Febles Lazo, Anderson "Andy" Ruiz, Plácido Pasillo (Roy Hall Delgado), Irina Rodríguez, Emily Dumois, Gertrudis Durán Limonta, Max Fonseca, Liober Griñán, Thalía Morán, and Papagoza (Andreis Mendoza).