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Saturday, October 10
 

5:00pm PDT

¡Poetry on la Veinticuatro! Poets in the Window
Saturday October 10, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Medicine for Nightmares
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FREE, $10-$15 suggested donation

A reading series that puts poets in the front window of the bookstore to read their poems to the chingadera, locura, and beauty that is 24th Street. Featuring Mukethe Kawinzi, Cathy Arellano, Barbara Jane Reyes, and San Francisco’s current Poet Laureate Genny Lim. 
Speakers
avatar for Mukethe Kawinzi

Mukethe Kawinzi

Mukethe Kawinzi is a trans shepherd and land steward working at the intersection of the pastoral, modern negritude, queer identity, and contemporary rural life. He has farmed in sustainable and organic agriculture for six years, with a focus on small ruminants, artisanal cheesemaking, non-violent livest... Read More →
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Barbara Jane Reyes

Barbara Jane Reyes is the author of Poeta en San Francisco, Diwata, Invocation to Daughters, Letters to a Young Brown Girl, and others. Her eighth book, Daughtersong Diaspore, is forthcoming in 2027.
avatar for Cathy Arellano

Cathy Arellano

Cathy Arellano is just another Chicana poet from San Francisco’s Mission District writing about growing up Brown and coming out Queer. Salvation on Mission Street shows the people and place she carries in her heart and I Love My Women, Sometimes They Love Me is broken-hearted lesbian... Read More →
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Genny Lim

Genny Lim is the 9th San Francisco Poet Laureate and former San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate. She was a former SF Arts Commissioner and the recipient of two lifetime achievement awards from Berkeley, California and Pen Oakland Writers, as well as the Spirit of Angel Island Award from... Read More →
Saturday October 10, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Medicine for Nightmares 3036 24th St, San Francisco
  Poetry, FREE

6:15pm PDT

¡Poetry on la Veinticuatro! Pan Dulce Poets
Saturday October 10, 2026 6:15pm - 7:15pm PDT
La Reyna Bakery
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We will make our way down 24th, to a 49-year-old Mission institution, La Reyna Bakery, for the Pan Dulce Poets, a beloved Mission series started in May of 2015 by Ricardo Tavarez. Here, poets read surrounded by pan dulce and used a converted paleta cart as a podium while Louie passed out cafecito y chocolate caliente to everyone. Featuring Ellie Lopez, Pan Dulce Poets founder Ricardo Tavarez, Michelle Ibarra, and former San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguía. 
Speakers
avatar for Michelle Ibarra

Michelle Ibarra

Michelle Ibarra is a Xicana poet with roots in both San Francisco’s Mission District and South City. Her poetic practice is heavily influenced by the 1970s Xicanx art movement, Rasquachismo, her working class upbringing, and her hatred for the governing state. Through her work... Read More →
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Ricardo Tavarez

Ricardo Tavarez is a Bay Area poet, educator, digital creator, and documentarian who teaches high school in Hayward and was a long-time host of the Pan Dulce Poets reading series in the Mission District at La Reyna Bakery. Member of La Brigada, an arts collective that organizes the... Read More →
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Ellie Lopez

Ellie Lopez is a prolific writer from the Central Valley that intends to use her platform to honor her hometown and roots. She is one of the rare few that has achieved great things in her writing career—yet, she recognizes why such triumph has blossomed—home, the 209. In this... Read More →
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Alejandro Murguía

Alejandro Murguía is a two-time winner of the American Book Award. his most recent publications include, Stray Poems, City Lights Books, and The Other Barrio: New and Selected Stories, Arte Publico, 2025. he co-edited The Word Turned Butterfly, contemporary Mayan Poetry.
Saturday October 10, 2026 6:15pm - 7:15pm PDT
La Reyna Bakery 3114 24th St, San Francisco
  Poetry

7:00pm PDT

Poetry World Series: Litquake Edition
Saturday October 10, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room
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$15 adv / $20 door
21+

Two teams of award-winning poets, including Bhion Achimba, Rhoni Blankenhorn, Safia Elhillo, Prageeta Sharma, Angel Dominguez, and Ben Gucciardi, take turns batting at topics pitched to them by the audience. Fastballs, curveballs, knuckleballs: these poets won’t know what’s coming next! Hilarity and brilliance both guaranteed. Daniel Handler will be tonight’s emcee, and eminently qualified umpires—Randall Mann and Katie Peterson—will score each batter’s reading. The winning team takes the series title. Don’t forget to bring a topic to stump the poets with! Book sales/signing follow the final inning. Doors at 6:30pm.
Moderators
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Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler is the author of seven novels, including Why We Broke Up, All The Dirty Parts and Bottle Grove, and most recently a memoir, And Then? And Then? What Else? As Lemony Snicket, he is the author of far too many books for children, including Poison for Breakfast, the four-volume All The Wrong Questions and the thirteen-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events, which has been adapted for screen and television. He lives in San Francisco with the illustrator Lisa Brown, to whom he is married... Read More →
Speakers
avatar for Bhion Achimba

Bhion Achimba

Bhion Achimba grew up in rural southeastern Nigeria and is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. A graduate of Brown University's MFA program, they were named the 2023 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow by the Poetry Foundation and have been published in the... Read More →
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Rhoni Blankenhorn

Rhoni Blankenhorn’s poems have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry Daily, The Slowdown, AAWW’s The Margins, and elsewhere. Her work has received support from Bread Loaf, Saltonstall, Sewanee, and Storyknife. Rhoni’s debut, Rooms for Dead and the Not Yet, was published by Trio House Press in 2025... Read More →
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Safia Elhillo

Sudanese by way of Washington, D.C., Safia Elhillo is the author of Girls That Never Die, The January Children, Home Is Not a Country, and Bright Red Fruit, and co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem and Stanford University, and her awards include a California Book Award, the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, and an Arab American Book Award. She has been a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the... Read More →
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Prageeta Sharma

Prageeta Sharma is the author of six collections of poetry; her most recent collection is Onement Won, out from Wave Books. She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Race, Creative Writing, and Artistic and Aesthetic Practices, a recent recipient of the 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, and is currently the Henry G. Lee... Read More →
avatar for Angel Dominguez

Angel Dominguez

Angel Dominguez is a Latinx poet and artist of Yucatec Maya descent, born in Hollywood and raised in Van Nuys, CA by their immigrant family. They now live amongst the Santa Cruz Mountains in Bonny Doon, CA. They’re the author of Don’t Tell My Mother If They Kill Me (Nightboat... Read More →
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Katie Peterson

Katie Peterson is the author of six collections of poetry, including Fog and Smoke (2024) and Life in a Field (2021). She teaches English at UC Davis. She is a middle child. 
avatar for Randall Mann

Randall Mann

Randall Mann is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Deal: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2023). His new collection, Memory Puzzle, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2027. He lives in San Francisco.
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Ben Gucciardi

Originally from San Francisco, Ben Gucciardi is the author of Arguments (Persea Books, 2026), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, and West Portal (University of Utah Press, 2021). His recent poems appear in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry Unbound,... Read More →
Saturday October 10, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco
  Poetry

7:30pm PDT

¡Poetry on la Veinticuatro! La Lunada
Saturday October 10, 2026 7:30pm - 8:30pm PDT
Galeria de la Raza
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Finally we will end the crawl at the mama of all Mission reading series, La Lunada! Originally started in 1998 in a Mexican restaurant in San Jose, La Lunada relocated to Calle 24 in 2004 at the original location of Galeria de la Raza on the esquina of 24th and Bryant. Since then the Lunada has been where countless poets from the neighborhood and beyond have gathered and celebrated the power of poesía. Featuring Kevin Madrigal Galindo, Rebeca Abidaíl Flores, and Know Expressions.
Speakers
avatar for Kevin Madrigal Galindo

Kevin Madrigal Galindo

Kevin Madrigal Galindo (he/they) is a queer chicano hijo de su chingada madre from South San Francisco by way of Zapopan, Jalisco. He works as a chef teaching kitchen basics and nutrition through ancestral, plant based recipes in the Mission. Kevin hopes to stop the amerikkkan war machine and build a bett... Read More →
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Rebeca Abidaíl Flores

Rebeca Abidaíl Flores is a Mexican and Salvadoran artist from Fresno, CA. She connects working class labor to joy. In her artistic practice, she creates objects rooted in labor like paletas, mangüeras, and camisas to reimagine them as interactive pieces of play. Her creative fellowships... Read More →
Saturday October 10, 2026 7:30pm - 8:30pm PDT
Galeria de la Raza 2779 Folsom St, San Francisco
  Poetry, FREE
 

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