3rd Saturday Poetry in Chinatown

Profound thoughts, occasional rhymes Cookies, tea, and some plum wine Poetry Reading with two features and an open mic. Open mic before and after the featured poets. Sign up at 1 pm. **David Booth** is a poet and teacher whose work has appeared in the Missouri Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Washington Square, Fourteen Hills, and Farallon Review, among other journals. He is the author of two poetry collections: Tell Me Please, What's the Matter (Blue Cedar Press, 2025) and Too Bright to See (Simi Press, 2021). In 2026, he is writing a series of four essays on poetics for the quarterly online zine Prairie Review, the first of which concerns poets' notebooks. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Ingrid Hawkinson. **Alison Hart** is an author, musician, dancer, and music educator. National Book award-winning author Isabel Allende praised Alison’s debut novel Mostly White (Torrey House, 2018) as "So compelling it gave me goosebumps from the very first lines…" Other works include a poetry book Temp Words (Cosmo Press, 2015) and her latest novel The In-between Sky (Mumblers Press, 2025). Hart is a mixed-race Passamaquoddy Native American, Irish, Black, Scottish, and English woman of color. Her work centers on her Black and Indigenous ancestors from New England, intergenerational/historical trauma, mixed-race identity, and uncovering the brutal truth of American history. Website: [www.ahartworks.com](http://www.ahartworks.com/) Parking tip: $6 all-day parking at St. Mary’s Square Garage.