Thanks to the CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowship I was able to overcome the financial difficulties of staying in New York City during this Summer. My original plan was to do research at the Colegio de Mexico’s and UNAM’s feminist literary archives in Mexico City for two months. Nevertheless, because of the Covid-19 crisis it was not possible. I decided to change my plans to focus on four goals during these months. First, I started working on the bibliography lists for my Second Exam in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures. I identified the most representative Latin American female authors of the second half of the XX Century. Also, I delve into sexual & symbolic state violence that women have suffered in the past and nowadays. Second, the grant allowed me to buy 15 Latin American books of poems written by women, here in the USA. Also, I bought an I pad for reading online books and documents. Third, I was able to pay for the international mailing fee for books from Guatemala (9 books) and Perú (14 books), both important for my ongoing research. Fourth, I was able to work more deeply on an essay regarding state violence, the war on drugs, and its relation to poetry in Mexico. These goals allowed me to work despite the harsh times of quarantine and confinement. My research methods are changing as I can no longer do archival investigation, but I am focusing more in literary texts and discourse analysis. I am deeply thankful with CLACLS team for supporting my research work during the Covid-19 crisis in the Summer of 2020.