3rd Saturday Poetry in Chinatown

Open mic before and after the featured poets. Sign up at 1 pm.
The event will be Live streamed on our YouTube Channel.

Keana Aguila Labra (they/them/she/her) is a Cebuana Tagalog Filipinx genre- and genderfluid poet, book reviewer, editor, and writer in diaspora residing on stolen Ohlone Tamyen land. She works to provide a safe literary space for underserved and underrepresented communities as Editor-in-Chief of literary magazine, Marías at Sampaguitas and co-Founder of the BIPOC/LGBTQIA+ focused independent publishing house, Sampaguita Press. She is the author of the chapbooks, No Saints (Lazy Adventurer Publishing, 2020) and Mohilak (Fahmidan Co. & Publishing, 2021), Kanunay (Self-Published, 2022), and their first full-length collection, The Language of Unbreaking (Sampaguita Press, 2025).

Dazié Grego-Sykes is a poet, performer, and multidisciplinary artist dedicated to exploring identity, race, queerness, and social justice. With a B.A. in Experimental Performance and an M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts, his work spans spoken word, music, and solo performance. He is the co-founder of Bundle of Sticks, a Black and Queer artist collective that centers Black joy and creativity. Dazié’s debut album Make Me Black and poetry collection Black Faggotry showcase his transformative art and storytelling.

Parking tip:
$6 all-day parking at St. Mary’s Square Garage.