In September 2011, Dr. Umpierre re-released her poetry in the book called I'm Still Standing: Treinta años de poesÍa/Thirty Years of Poetry. As David Williams Foster, Regents' Professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies (at Arizona State University) notes, "when it becomes possible to construct a principled and theoretically grounded canon of Latin American lesbian literature, Luzma Umpierre name will figure prominently. Umpierre has devoted her poetic career to affirming the validity of love between women in terms of a broad mosaic of friendship, solidarity, and homosocial and homoerotic desire. Her poetry is dynamic and witty, and speaks with the voice that demands its own legitimate space in Hispanic letters. Umpierre characterizes herself as a human rights activist, and her poetry is necessarily a powerful brief for her commitments as a voice of lesbian vision, one that inflects profoundly her many other commitments for dignity and justice in the world." ”