


Sat, Apr 18
|Clarion Performing Arts Center
3rd Saturday Poetry in Chinatown
Profound thoughts, occasional rhymes Cookies, tea, and some plum wine Poetry Reading with two features and an open mic.
Time & Location
Apr 18, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Clarion Performing Arts Center, 2 Waverly Pl, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA
About the Event
Open mic before and after the featured poets. Sign up at 1 pm.
Susana Praver-Pérez is a poet, visual artist, editor, and organizer of cultural events. Her debut collection of poetry Hurricanes, Love Affairs, and Other Disasters received the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature (2022). Her second collection, Return Against the Flow, (Black Lawrence Press, 2024), was chosen by both Ms. Magazine and NYU’s Latinx Project as one of the best 30+ poetry books of the year and was awarded the 2025 Juan Felipe Herrera Best Book of Poetry Award in 2025. Susana divides her time between Oakland, California and San Juan, Puerto Rico and writes through the lens formed in the liminal space between languages, cultures, and geographies.
Website: susanapraverperez.com
Alison Hart is an author, musician, dancer, and music educator. National Book award-winning author Isabel Allende praised Alison’s debut novel Mostly White (Torrey House, 2018) as "So…
Tickets
3rd Saturday Poetry
Always with complimentary cookies and tea!
$5.00
+$0.13 ticket service fee
Total
$0.00
