Listen to local poets and share your own work at this monthly open mic event. Show up in person or attend via Zoom.
This month's featured poet is Shizue Siegal.
About the group: 1428 Poets started pre-pandemic at 1428 Haight St., San Francisco, by the late, great Richard Sanderell: poet, activist, Vietnam vet, Indigenous Peoples advocate and great human. Now, Dan Brady and Antoinette Vella Payne host the ongoing open mic and featured poet readings at the North Beach Library.
About the featured poet: Shizue Siegal is a third-generation Japanese American writer, visual artist and community activist who explores complex intersections of history, culture and spirituality through prose, poetry and visual art.
Her work is informed by seven decades of experiential explorations across age, class, continents and cultures. She was born in 1946, just after her family's release from World War II incarceration. She grew up as an army brat in segregated Baltimore, Occupied Japan, California farm labor camps and skid-row Stockton, before finding home in San Francisco. She's a college dropout who learned by doing—from the Haight-Ashbury to Indian ashrams, from corporate advertising to HIV prevention to San Francisco’s vibrant activist arts community.
She is the founder/director of Write Now! SF Bay, which supports San Francisco Bay Area writers and artists of color through workshops, events and anthologies.
For Zoom access or other questions about this program, please contact Antoinette Vella Payne (antoinetty@aol.com).
Connect: Shizue Siegal - Website | Write Now! SF Bay - Website | The 1428 Poets Group - Facebook
LOCATION:North Beach - North Beach Library Community Room CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VALARM TRIGGER:-PT1440M ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Event Reminder - Performance: Poetry Open Mic END:VALARM END:VCALENDAR