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…