!Live Poets in our window!

Medicina Para Pesadillas is keeping the very special Mission tradition of poets reading on the street alive and well with this monthly reading series. Come hang and enjoy poets reading their work to Calle Veinte Cuatro.

This month’;s features are hector son of hector, Lauren Ito, and Rolando Andre Lopez

Hector son of hector is a reluctant and mysterious pocho who writes short stories in secret. aqui en La Area Bahia. His poetry has been heard in Mexico, Fresno,Los Angeles, and here in the city of San Pancho.

Lauren Ito is an American Gosei (fifth generation person of Japanese ancestry) poet, researcher, and organizer whose art explores American concentration camps, political agency, and the genealogy of home. Lauren's work has been featured by The San Francisco Public Library, The Seattle Times, Japanese American National Museum, and Nomadic Press. As a San Francisco Arts Commission Artist Grantee, Lauren's latest project convenes Japanese American poets and visual artists to create a collective “love letter to our ancestors: past, present and future.” She can almost always be found in or by the sea.

Rolando André López is an educator, writer, translator, bookseller, and poli-psycho-devil cartoonist from San Juan, Puerto Rico. He has published work in Passages North, ORCA Literary Journal, Off Assignment, Konch Magazine, and others. In 2021, his essay “A Name is an Unquiet City” was labeled a notable essay of 2020 by Best American Essays. He is a 2023 Puerto Rican Artist Fellow for MASSMOCA’s Assets4Artists program. His writing ranges from journalism and reportage to hybrid fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts. He lives in San Francisco, California.