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Speaking Axolotl

Thu, Apr 17

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Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore and Ga

Speaking Axolotl La Area Bahia’s long running monthly Latinx reading series happens the third Thursday of each month.

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Speaking Axolotl
Speaking Axolotl

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Apr 17, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore and Ga, 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

About the event

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.


This month’s feature is Lourdes Figueroa.


Lourdes Figueroa is an oral poet. Her poems are a dialogue of her lived experience when her family worked in el azadón in Yolo County. The words el azadón are used by the ones who work in the fields – the work of tilling the soil under the blistering sun. She is the author of the chapbooks yolotl and Ruidos = To Learn Speak, completed during her Alley Cat Books Residency. She received her MFA in Poetry at the University of San Francisco. She is a recipient of the 2021 Nomadic Press Literary Award in Poetry selected by emeritus poet Laureate Kim Shuck. She works and lives in Oakland with her wife, filmmaker, Peggy Peralta. Together i…


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