3rd Saturday Poetry in Chinatown

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

Susana Praver-Pérez is a poet, visual artist, editor, and organizer of cultural events. Her debut collection of poetry Hurricanes, Love Affairs, and Other Disasters received the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature (2022). Her second collection, Return Against the Flow, (Black Lawrence Press, 2024), was chosen by both Ms. Magazine and NYU’s Latinx Project as one of the best 30+ poetry books of the year and was awarded the 2025 Juan Felipe Herrera Best Book of Poetry Award in 2025. Susana divides her time between Oakland, California and San Juan, Puerto Rico and writes through the lens formed in the liminal space between languages, cultures, and geographies.

Website: susanapraverperez.com

Alison Hart is an author, musician, dancer, and music educator. National Book award-winning author Isabel Allende praised Alison’s debut novel Mostly White (Torrey House, 2018) as "So compelling it gave me goosebumps from the very first lines…" Other works include a poetry book Temp Words (Cosmo Press, 2015) and her latest novel The In-between Sky (Mumblers Press, 2025). Hart is a mixed-race Passamaquoddy Native American, Irish, Black, Scottish, and English woman of color. Her work centers on her Black and Indigenous ancestors from New England, intergenerational/historical trauma, mixed-race identity, and uncovering the brutal truth of American history.

Website: www.ahartworks.com

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