3rd Saturday Poetry in Chinatown (SF)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

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

André Le Mont Wilson is the 2022 Newfound Prose Prize for his chapbook, Hauntings. His work has appeared in Rattle, Failed Haiku: A Journal of English Senryu, and Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color, and forthcoming in great weather for MEDIA, The AutoEthnographer, and These Black Bodies Are . . . a Blacklandia Anthology. He performed on Zoom for audiences in India as part of the Katha Potpourri Storytelling Festival and in Japan as part of the book launch for the Tokyo Poetry Journal Excursions: Umoja: Black Diaspora Edition. He teaches storytelling to adults with disabilities in Oakland.

E. K. Keith is a Latinx poet who calls San Francisco home, but her hometown is Houston where she learned to write in the sprawl. She performs her poems on the street corner and takes the mic at coffee shops, bars, and radio stations. Her work appears online and in magazines on all three coasts and places beyond, and ORDINARY VILLAINS is her first book of poetry. E.K. organizes Poems Under the Dome, San Francisco’s annual open mic celebration of Poetry Month inside City Hall. Her work as a public school librarian creates opportunities for her to make the world a better place every day.

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

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