Second Saturday Poetry Cafe: reg e gaines & Michael Klam

This February commemorates Black History month, celebrates the Feast of St. Valentine, and brings us an extra day to round out our leap year.
Get inspired on February 8th with award winning poets and artists, reg e gaines and Michael Klam -- then show us what you got at the open mic!

Second Saturday Poetry Cafe Program
5:30-6:00 Social hour -- join us for snacks, light meals, beverages
6:00 reg e gaines
6:15 Michael Klam
6:30 Open mic

About the Poets:

reg e gaines is a playwright, poet and director. He wrote and produced a new musical, The 88, with music by Calvin Gaines, for Art House Productions in Jersey City. reg e gaines is a Tony Award-winning playwright, Grammy-nominated lyricist, language arts literacy workshop facilitator and published poet. He scored the 13-episode PBS documentary, Senior Year, directed Jerry Quickley’s Through The Looking Glass, and directed a five-week musical theater summer camp for the city of Camden, N.J. He has recently been commissioned to write and perform a play about dynamic activist and award-winning playwright Amiri Baraka, one of America’s most important poets.

Michael Klam is executive editor of the San Diego Poetry Annual. His publisher is Puna Press. He surfs in La Jolla mostly, teaches in North Park, and lives in Bay Ho.