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.
Every month, we will be bringing featuring poets from all walks of life to inspire our audience with beauty of story telling and the alchemy of word play. You don't wanna miss this!
This month’s features are Ashia Ajani, Dez Hatter, and Katie Aliferis.
Ashia Ajani is a sunshower, a glass bead, a carnivorous plant, an overripe nectarine. Ajani is a multi-genre environmental storyteller & educator hailing from Denver, CO, Queen City of the Plains and the unceded territory of the Cheyenne, Ute, and Arapahoe peoples. Ajani is a lecturer in the African American Studies Department at UC Berkeley and a climate resilient schools educator and researcher with Mycelium Youth Network. Their debut poetry collection, Heirloom, is forthcoming April 2023 with Write Bloody Publishing. A Black future is happening, always.
Born and raised in San Francisco, Desmond "Dez" Hatter is a rapper/poet depending on who’s asking. In college, he started performing at open-mics and that’s where he got most of his practice. He stopped writing in 2019 and he now thinks of and memorizes his poems organically
Katie Aliféris (ah-lee-FEH-ree) is a writer of poetic things from San Francisco, California. She has been a featured performer at local and international literary series and events, including LitCrawl, The Melbourne Fringe Festival, North Beach First Fridays at City Lights Books, the SFSU Center for Modern Greek Studies, and VelRo’s Global Voices: A Celebration of Translation and International Creative Writing. Her work has been published in various anthologies, journals, and websites, including Lucent Dreaming, the San Francisco Public Library’s Poem of the Day, and sPARKLE & bLINK. It has also been set to music and commissioned by composers, conductors, businesses, individuals, and organizations. Katie’s first book of poetry, fool[ishly optimistic], was published by Nomadic Press in 2022.
About RichOak Events:
RichOak Events is a spoken word and literary arts organization based in the East Bay region of the SF Bay Area, primarily working in Oakland and Berkeley. We are dedicated to providing equitable platforms for self expression to underserved and intentionally silenced communities both through virtual media and in person interactive engagements. Our top priority at RichOak Events is to facilitate a space to empower people of all genders, sexualities, ethnicities, abilities and ages to tell their own stories in ways that will produce positive change on a local, national, and global level.