Speaking Axolotl presents Gabriel Cortez
Thu, Jul 16
|Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore
ome hear decolonized verses, spanglish poesia, Latine spokenword, Pocho poemas and neighborhood chisme at Speaking Axolotl, the Bay Area’s long running monthly Latine Reading series.
Time & Location
Jul 16, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore, 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
About the event
10 slot open mic goes up a las 6:50PM. Open mic poets have 5 minutes to read.
!This month’s feature is Gabriel Cortez!
Gabriel Cortez is a poet, educator, and organizer based in the Bay Area, California. His work has appeared in Poem-A-Day by The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, The Rumpus, The Breakbeat Poets Anthology Volume 4, and elsewhere. A VONA, Poetry Incubator, and #BARS workshop alum, he has received awards from the Gerbode Foundation, the Rainin Foundation, the National Performance Network, the University of California, Palette Poetry, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He is pursuing his MFA in Creative Writing at St. Mary’s College of California. Gabriel’s debut one person show, Between Two Rising Seas, premieres at Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) in Fall 2027.
He is a member of the artist collective, Ghostlines, and co-founder of The Root Slam,…
