Performance: Michael Koch & James Cagney: Against the Tide / Contra Corriente
2025-04-18 01:00 - 02:15 UTC | Main Library - Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room A
Two Bay Area poets read from their works: Michael Koch (https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/search) and James Cagney (https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/search), committed to linguistic alchemy and the struggle for justice, two sides of a coin rolling down a crowded sidewalk.

Michael Koch is a San Francisco poet and visual artist whose Jamaican-Slavic heritage only partially explains his passion for syncopation and absurdity. His books include Street Theology (https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C3827538) and Ramshackle Detour.

James Cagney is the author of Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour Of Chaos Theory, (https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C3897662) winner of the PEN Oakland 2018 Josephine Miles Award, as well as Martian: The Saint of Loneliness (https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C5512498), the winner of the 2021 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. His third collection, Ghetto Koans: A Personal Archive, will be published this year from Black Lawrence Press.

Connect: James Cagney – Website (https://www.jamescagneypoet.com/)
