Join us this afternoon for a very special reading with poet Dani Gabriel, who iscelebrating the release of their new book “In The Middle Of All This Living”(Pochino Press 2023). Dani will be joined by fellow poets Ananda Esteva and David Flores.

BIOS;

Dani Gabriel is a Bay Area poet; born in San Francisco, they graduated from UC Berkeley, received their MFA from Mills College, were the Poet Laureate of El Cerrito from 2018-2020, and currently live in Oakland, CA. Dani has taught writing in prison, jail, juvenile hall, schools, libraries, and community organizations.

Ananda Esteva was born in Chile and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has taught poetry with June Jordan's Poetry for the People,the East Bay Institute for Urban Arts, Digital Underground Story Telling, and Writers' Corps. A gifted storyteller, she intertwines bilingual poetry and song to paint a picture of life in Las Americas. Her writing weaves in a duality of culture, perspective, sexuality, and language. Ananda is currently working on three projects: a children's story about a juggling coyote who treks the wildlands to save his life, a young adult novel about a bass prodigy who goes on an odyssey to reclaim her grandmother's bass, and a memoir detailing her first trip back to Chile in 1987 during Pinochet's dictatorship.

David Flores is a poet, hip hop lyricist, educator, and mindfulness trainer. He is the current Poet Laureate for Richmond. His present position is Lead Trainer for the Mindful Life Project. David is a former elementary school teacher of eleven years at Grant Elementary.Jan 3, 2022