!LIVE POETS IN THE WINDOW!

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

This month’;s features are Preeti Vangani, Connie Mae Oliver, and Sara Borjas.

Preeti Vangani is an Indian poet & writer based in San Francisco. She is the author of Mother Tongue Apologize (2019) and Fifty Mothers, forthcoming from River River Books (Feb 2026). Her work has been published in AGNI, The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner among other places. Her debut short story won the 2021 Pen/Dau Emerging Writers Prize.Vangani has been a resident at UCross, Djerassi and Ragdale. She has received artist grants from San Francisco Arts Commission and YBCA through which she facilitates poetry workshops rooted in writing grief through joy. She holds an MFA in Writing from University of San Francisco.

Connie Mae Concepción Oliver is a Venezuelan poet. Her first book of poems, Cosmos A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan Ann Druyan Steven Soter And Me is about nuclear disarmament. Her second book, Science Fiction Fiction, is an homage to Miami-Dade County and color photography in the early aughts. Her new collection of poems, dormilona, is a bilingual book that explores dream states, distance, the rituals of sleep, and the elusive nature of time and memory. Both “nightgown” and “sleepyhead” in Venezuelan Spanish, dormilona weaves a neural network linking sleep to language, memory, matrilineal bonds, geography, and history.

Sara Borjas is a queer, Chicanx poet and the author of Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff (Noemi Press, 2019), winner of a 2020 American Book Award. The recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, CantoMundo, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Poetry Foundation, Borjas lives on Ohlone territory in Oakland but stays rooted in Fresno, California, territory of the Yokut peoples.