From the organizing body that brings you the Berkeley Slam and the Oakland Slam, RichOak Events presents a new poetry show in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District. In partnership with Medicine for Nightmares, the Day Dreamer’s Poetry Showcase is a spoken word event where voices that have often been silenced or overlooked have a chance to shine. Join us every 2nd Saturday in the Galleria as we invite local and traveling poets to shape and nurture the very dreams we as poets refuse to let die.
This month’s very special features are Kevin Madrigal, Ariana Brown. Honey Gold Jasmine, and Tiffany Banks.
Kevin Madrigal Galindo is a food justice advocate that is reimagining health with ancestral Mexican cooking. He is a first-generation Chicano hijo de su chingada madre from South San Francisco by way of Zapopan, Jalisco. Kevin’s work has been featured in The Boiler, Bozalta, The San Franciscan, & Edible East Bay. His first chapbook “Hell/a Mexican” is out now with Nomadic Press.
Ariana Brown is a queer Black Mexican American poet from the Southside of San Antonio, Texas, now based in Houston, Texas. She is the author of the poetry collections We Are Owed. (Grieveland, 2021) and Sana Sana (Game Over Books, 2020). Ariana's work investigates queer Black personhood in Mexican American spaces, Black relationality and girlhood, loneliness, and care. She has two ethnic studies degrees and is currently in training to become a librarian. Ariana is a 2014 national collegiate poetry slam champion and owes much of her practice to Black performance communities led by Black women poets from the South. She has been writing, performing, and teaching poetry for 13 years. Follow Ariana on Twitter and Instagram @ArianaThePoet.
Honey Gold Jasmine is art. She's serving you bars, vocals, and visuals creating a universe that takes you to another world. Her energy is akin to a delicate, resilient rose with thorns that hums the blues. The soul singer-songwriter, visual artist, and event curator views the world through an Afrofuturistic lens and has a vision to create more space and representation for imaginative people in the Black diaspora and in the LGBTQ+ community.
Tiffany Banks, she/her is a writer, spoken-word artist, speaker, curator, mistress of ceremonies, wellness/natural medicine advocate.