Speaking Axolotl our monthly Latinx/Chicanx reading series happens the third Thursday of each month. Come hear Decolonized Verses, Spanglish Poesia, Bilingual chismes y Latinx Spoken Word. This month we are over la luna excited to have as our feature Maurisa Thompson and J.J. Hernandez
Maurisa Thompson is a poet and educator born and raised in San Francisco. She is a proud alum of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People and UC Riverside’s MFA program, and is currently teaching English at John O’Connell High School. She is currently working on her first poetry manuscript that combines history and folklore with her grandparents’ stories from Louisiana and San Francisco, and a middle-grade novel exploring police brutality, which won the support of a Walter Grant from We Need Diverse Books.
J.J. Hernandez is a poet in Fresno, California, holds an MFA in poetry and served as one of the inaugural fellows in the Laureate Lab:Visual Wordist Studio under Juan Felipe Herrera. His work has been supported by the Community of Writers Workshop, he reads for The Offing Magazine, and you can see some of his work in Tinderbox, Queen Mob's Tea House, and The American Poetry Review among others.
10 slot open mic. Open mic lista will be posted ten minutes before the reading starts,
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