TONIGHT come hear decolonized verses, spanglish poesia, Latine spokenword, Pocho poemas and neighborhood chisme at Speaking Axolotl, the Bay Area’s long running monthly Latine Reading series. 10 slot open mic goes up a las 6:50PM. Open mic poets have 5 minutes to read.

!This month we welcome our very special feature Dora Prieto celebrating the release of her new libro JAWS [tiburón] is being released this month by Cardboard House Press!

Mexican-Canadian poet and translator Dora Prieto writes from Ohlone land (Oakland, CA), where she is a 2025–27 Wallace Stegner Fellow in
Poetry at Stanford. Her co-translation of JAWS [tiburón] will be released by Cardboard House Press on May 21! Her debut poetry collection Blood Tejido is forthcoming with House of Anansi (April 2027), and she is a member of El Mashup Collective, where she collaborates on interdisciplinary artistic experiments. She is an auntie, a dreamer, a thinker, and a cold ocean swimmer—despite a close encounter with a shark as a kid. ♡☆ @primadora_

NOTE; Speaking Axolotl is a BIPOC readoing series which means black and brown poets only on the mic. White folks are more than welcome to listen and atend but their presence is not required.