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

The event will be Live streamed on our YouTube Channel.

Antoinette Vella Payne, self-published her first poetry collection in the fall of 2023.That’s What Happens When You Live on Haight Street.  She is working on her second collection. Her poems have appeared in the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal. In anthologies, Dime Piece and Poems in Praise of Libraries, published by World Stage Press in Los Angeles, What’s in John’s Basement, published by EyePublishEwe in San Francisco and online in Poetry Express Newsletter from England,  Ekphrastic FolkHeart Press and in MillValleyLit, Home of the Literary Latte. Sacred Grounds Open Mic is her poetry home. She is host of the monthly 1428 Poets Group.

Lisbit Bailey is a San Francisco-grown poet. She was first inspired by William Carlos Williams and The Beat Generation.    

She arrived in San Francisco in 1985 to attend graduate…