SPIN El Poeta is an award winning Guatemalan spoken word artist and Canadian national slam poetry champ. He is a long time youth advocate, arts educator, former refugee, proprietor of the One Mic Educators arts enterprise and cofounder of the LA Raza Open Mic through the One Mic Educators collective. SPIN has donated thousands of crowdsourced dollars to grassroots causes. He has also paid out thousands of dollars to racialized artists across Turtle Island through the LA3 Raza Open Mic series. SPIN was honoured with the 2021 Arts for Human Rights award in the Established Artist category by the JAYU Film Festival and is the 2024 OG 500 & 2024 City Folk Slam Poetry Champ. Currently, SPIN is working to build a Palestinian Diaspora presence at the Abya Yala Poetry Slam as well as sewing the seeds for an international exchange between Indigenous, Palestinian, Black and Latin American artists in Ciudad de Mexico for 2026 and 2027.
SPIN El Poeta
