3rd Saturday Poetry in Chinatown

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

The event will be Live streamed on our

In the words of Diego De Leo, “At seventeen, wearing my older brother’s clothes, preparing to venture to the New World, leaving my family, my horse and plow behind, uneducated, immature… bent, but not broken by natural or man-made laws. I endured. Now, almost seventy years later, my past years well spent and my future years ahead looking forward".

"Diego De Leo began writing at the age of seventy-seven. We are receptors of a miracle of life’s second innocence with these superbly simple, wise and elemental poems" - Jack Hirschman

Kristina Brown: artist, writer, poet. Her words explore the boundaries of love's power. The author of two chapbooks, she edited the international  anthologies: Storm Warning: Poets for the Planet, Healing a Fractured World, and For All.

A childhood in Japan and Okinawa infused her with an appreciation for imperfect beauty. Her latest piece, "On the Bus with Neeli," is at https://brooklynrail.org/2024/09/in-memoriam/.                 

Her unique perspective blends the exquisite with the profound, much like her preferred libations—pink Meyer lemonade and champagne. She invites readers to look through the cracks that let the light in.

Parking tip:

$6 all-day parking at St. Mary’s Square Garage.

Host or Publisher Clarion Performing Arts Center