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

Tim Xonnelly is a retired Special Education Paraprofessional and Union Negotiator living in Berkieley, California since 1991.

His hardback chapbook, The Invasion of Pantomime, is an exploration in dreamtime of the various plagues of 2020 and the gifts of middle age.

Publications include the chapbooks Velcro Heart (1989), A Season In Bed (1998), I skip the long ones too (2004), and the anthologies Cross Strokes: Poetry Between Los Angeles and San Francisco (2015), and 1001 Nights: Twenty Years of Redondo Poets at Coffee Cartel (2018).

Kimi Sugioka, is a mother, educator, songwriter and poet. She earned an MFA from Naropa University and has published two books of poetry; the newest of which is Wile & Wing on Manic D Press. She has been published in numerous anthologies and is the poet laureate of Alameda, California. As an active board member for literary arts…