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

James J. Siegel is the author of the poetry collections “The God of San Francisco” and “How Ghosts Travel.” He is the host and curator of the monthly Literary Speakeasy show at Martuni’s piano bar in San Francisco. His poems have been featured in several journals and anthologies, including Foglifter, the Cortland Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and more. 

Wanda Sabir, founder of Souljourning for Truth Ministry, Inc., is a retired college professor, independent scholar, storyteller, and spiritual healer who practices a decolonized 12-step recovery, Insight meditation, ancestral reverence--Maafa SF Bay Area, and African cosmology. She is a journalist (for over 35 years)--print, web, radio-- @wandaspicks is her tagline. She is also a Louisiana native, San Francisco transplant, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She's a published writer, editor, poet, filmmaker, and multi-genre artivist whose assignments come from the unseen…