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5:00pm PDT

¡Poetry on la Veinticuatro! Poets in the Window

Saturday October 10, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT

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

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 →

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.

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 →

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

City San Francisco

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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FREE, $10-$15 suggested donation

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

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 →

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