Poemales is an ongoing series of perfomance-workshops which asks participants to create a poem while considering several factors in relation to a particular food; where it comes from, how it was produced, the labor required to produce it, and their relationship to it (sensual, historical, nostalgic, familial, cultural, etc.). The poems collected from these workshops are wrapped in corn husks to produce "poemales," locally produced poems about food of the El Paso and Juarez region.
The term "poemal" is an original concept of La Línea. The first public performance of Poemales by La Línea in collaboration with Caltranzit took place in Tijuana in 2004.