!Your holidaze dream came true Poetry in the Window is back!
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 soledad con carne, Thomas Dunn, and James Cagney
soledad con carne is a casually queer, intergalactic Oakland/Ohlone-based chicanx punk poet, working/poor multiple high school drop-out, analog zinester, co-host of the City Lights First Fridays series, poet laureate of the San Fernando Valley, and blatant smoker sharing-trauma-with-their-mother. Their debut chapbook "SFV or Die, Foo'" is available through Lilac Press
Thomas Dunn is a multi-media artist, poet, and experimental filmmaker from Midland, Michigan. A proud graduate of Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Thomas is a Cave Canem Fellow and has attended the Community of Writers' Poetry Workshop. With forthcoming poetry appearing in Poetry Lore, Allium, Trinity University's Ecopoetry Anthology, Defunkt Magazine, and others, Thomas recently graduated with an MFA in Writing from the California College of the Arts.
Oakland born poet James Cagney is the author of two books of poetry, including MARTIAN: The Saint of Loneliness, winner of 2021 James Laughlin Award from Academy of American Poets. Please Visit JamesCagneyPoet.com