Performance: Poesía en Fulton

Wednesday, 9/11/2024
12:00 - 1:15
Fulton Street Steps
Main Library

100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

415-557-4400

It’s our third annual Heart of The City lunchtime Poesía en Fulton St. Steps! 

Wednesdays, the best day of the week in Civic Center, just got better! Not only can you pick up some great book finds at the Friends of the Library Step Sale and buy fresh produce from the Heart of the City Farmers' Market, but you can also kick off ¡VIVA! at the Library with the best of Bay Area Latinx poets.

Featuring Rolando André López, soledad con carne, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta and Josiah Luis Alderete

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

Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta (they/them/ellx) is a cuír anarquistx virgo Jewish Latinx artist, poet, café worker and sexual health educator from unceded Tongva lands, now living in unceded Yelamu Ramaytush Ohlone lands. Their first book, The Easy Body, was published by Timeless, Infinite Light in 2017; their second book, La Movida, is available now at SFPL.  

soledad con carne is a casually queer, intergalactic Oakland Ohlone/-based chicanx punk poet, working/poor multiple high school drop-out, bookstore lackey, poet laureate of the San Fernando Valley and blatant smoker sharing-trauma-with-their-mother.

Josiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Spanglish speaking Pocho y left handed callejero de Aztlán who has been part of La Area Bahia’s spoken word scene for over twenty years. He is the curator and host of the long running Latinx reading series Speaking Axolotl and  is the author of two books of poetry Baby Axolotls & Old Pochos (Black Freighter Press 2021) and the chapbook Fuchi Faces de los Estados Jodidos (For The Pueblo 2023). In 2023 he was the Poetry Center’s Mazza Writer in Residence at San Francisco State.  Along with his bookstore sister Tân Khanh Cao, Josiah  tends the portal known as Medicina Para Pesadillas Bookstore y Galeria on 24th street in La Mision.

Curated by Josiah Luis Alderete.

Connect: 

Rolando André López - Instagram | Rolando André López - Linktree

Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta - Instagram

soledad con carne - Linktree

Josiah Luis Alderete on Black Freighter Press | Josiah Luis Alderete - Instagram


 

 

 

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¡VIVA!: Latinx Interest

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¡VIVA! at the Library is a celebration of Latinx heritage, cultures and traditions. San Francisco has a rich Latinx heritage that is highlighted in a diverse array of exciting programs for all ages, from Spanish/bilingual storytimes to cooking classes, author talks to art and cultural presentations.

Poetry

Programs designed to celebrate the art of the poem, including readings and talks.

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This program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.

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This program will be conducted in English unless otherwise noted.

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