!TONIGHT we have poets in our front window!

Come by tonight and listen to Bay Area poets reading their work in our front window to Calle 24, the most living loving street in all of San Francisco. This month’s poets are hector son of hector, Michelle Ibarra, Arnoldo Colibri Hummingbird, and Luz de Nacar.

Hector son of Hector is an Oakland poet. He is a child of Mexican immigrants, works in a hospital, dreams of short stories and writes poems in secret.

Michelle Ibarra is a Xicana poet with roots in both San Francisco’s Mission District and South San Francisco. Her poetic practice is heavily influenced by the 1970s Xicanx art movement, Rasquachismo, her working class upbringing, and her hatred for the governing state. Through her work, she explores queer sexuality, Catholic iconography, drug user liberation, and love at the end of the world. She has an upcoming zine called Three Love Poems and A Song of Despair.

Luz de Nácar (they/them) was born in East Los, raised in Puebla and Veracrúz, and currently survives in Oakland. As a transterritorial two-spirit romantic, they make prayers out of art —music, poetry, carving— for the feeding of ancestors and Spirit by connecting to personal anqd cultural symbols that strengthen their relationships to nature as a mother and expression as medicine.

arnoldo garcía, un colibrí, is a migrant native of the Río Grande valley. His first poems were stanzas of vetavel fields and hanging vines of hops stretched across telephone poles. Arnoldo runs the small neighborhood publishing operations called editorial Xingao, dedicated to promoting poets & artists of colors, and runs the poetry blog, La comuna | the Art of the Commune