This event is in the past.It took place on May 21, 2026 at Medicine for Nightmares.


Mission District, San Francisco
🎤Decolonized verses, Spanglish poesía, Pocho poemas
📚Heavy focus on authors of color in SFF section
♟️Chess table and art installation in the back
Speaking Axolotl brings decolonized verses and neighborhood chisme to Medicine For Nightmares, the Mission's radical bookstore gallery. Arrive early for the open mic, then settle in for Dora Prieto reading from her co-translation of JAWS [tiburón].
BIPOC-centered
Spanglish poetry
Mission bookstore
radical literature


Mission District, San Francisco
🎤Decolonized verses, Spanglish poesía, Pocho poemas
📚Heavy focus on authors of color in SFF section
♟️Chess table and art installation in the back
Speaking Axolotl brings decolonized verses and neighborhood chisme to Medicine For Nightmares, the Mission's radical bookstore gallery. Arrive early for the open mic, then settle in for Dora Prieto reading from her co-translation of JAWS [tiburón].
BIPOC-centered
Spanglish poetry
Mission bookstore
radical literature