¡Poetry on la Veinticuatro!

Join us in La Mission for a 24th Street poetry crawl celebrating three Mission reading series integral to this neighborhood’s deep literary
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¡Poetry on la Veinticuatro! / Poets in the Window

5:00PM-6:00PM

Medicine for Nightmares

3036 24th St, San Francisco

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.

¡Poetry on la Veinticuatro! / Pan Dulce Poets

6:15PM - 7:15PM

La Reyna Bakery

3114 24th St, San Francisc0

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.

¡Poetry on la Veinticuatro! / La Lunada

7:30PM - 8:30PM

Galeria de la Raza

2779 Folsom St, San Francisco

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, Rebecca Flores, and Know Expressions.