It grew to a collective of over 30 poets, band members and performance artists based at El Campo Ruse on 16th St. in Downtown San Diego's East Village.
The Taco Shop Poets are often credited in helping to revive, redefine, and revolutionize spoken word in San Diego and elsewhere.
[1] They employed a very aggressive style of guerilla poetry central to which are its improvisational nature and combination of punk and hip-hop influences.
[2] In 2002, members of the Taco Shop Poets and other like-minded individuals collaborated to create an artistic space to house and develop art.
The four longest standing group members, Adrian Arancibia, Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, Tomas Riley, and Miguel-Angel Soria, released a second anthology featuring their work, titled "Sugar Skull Sueños"- Paperback and Ebook (2012, Tintavox Press).