Speaking Axolotl presents Trenches Full of Axolotls
jue, 19 jun
|Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore
Come gather and hear decolonized verses, spanglish poesia, Latine spokenword, Pocho poems and neighborhood chisme at Speaking Axolotl, the Bay Area’s long running monthly Latine Reading series.
Time & Location
19 jun 2025, 19:00 – 21:00
Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore, 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
About the event
This month Speaking Axolotl is being taken over by Trenches Full of Poets, a Long Beach reading series that happens at Page Against The Machine. Curator and host of Trenches Full of Poets, Nikolai Garcia will be bringing three LA poetas with him so get ready for Trenches Full of Axolotls!
Participating poets include;
Guadalupe Salgado Partida loves reading poetry and sauntering. She has received support from Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA) and is currently pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing at California State University, Fresno. Additionally, she was a reader for the 2024 Philip Levine Prize. Her work has been published by The Acentos Review, Zócalo Public Square, The San Joaquin Review, The Dewdrop and others. She can be found on IG @salgadopartida
Grace Olguin is a poet and storyteller. She printed her first chapbook collection of poems in 2009 and was awarded the Powell Grant for…