3rd Saturday Poetry in Chinatown

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Open mic before and after the featured poets. Sign up at 1 pm.

The event will be Live streamed on our YouTube Channel.

Rafael Jesús González, professor emeritus of Creative Writing & Literature at Laney College, Oakland, CA where he founded the Mexican & Latin American Studies Dept. was four times nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was honored by he has exhibited at the Oakland Museum of California, the Mexican Museum of San Francisco, Galeria de la Raza, among others. He received a César Chávez Lifetime Achievement Award 2013 and one from the City of Berkeley, CA 2015. In 2017 he was named Berkeley’s first Poet Laureate. 

More information is available at http://rjgonzalez.blogspot.com/

Judith Offer has had two daughters, six books of poetry and dozens of plays. (Eighteen of the latter, including six musicals, have been produced.)  She has read her poetry at scores of poetry venues, but is particularly delighted to have been included in the Library of Congress series and on “All Things Considered”, on NPR.  Her most recent book of poetry, called THE GRATING OF AMERICA, is poems about the dysfunction and destruction of the 2016-2020 US administration, as well as some of the successes of patriots in maintaining the democracy.  It includes 22 poems and eight editorial cartoons by Washington Post cartoonist Nick Anderson.

More information is available at www.JudithOffer.com 

Parking tip:

$6 all-day parking at St. Mary’s Square Garage.

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