Hey Beast Crawlers! HERE ARE SOME Upcoming DATES! To warm up as we approach the Festival, come to our Book Launches in April! Feeling like writing? Come to our workshop on April 22nd! All Tickets for events can be found at the link on our website! (Through Eventbrite)
To the Curators who brought the extreme talent, to the Readers who brought their best work, to our Volunteer team who brought the whole thing together, and special thank you to our Venues who contributed the time and space for this epic event.
Join us for an evening of poetic excellence, featuring the most prominent voices to have touched Oakland Poetry Slam, including Reggie and Collin Edmonds, Caleilia, Bambi, D'mani Thomas, Prophet, and Tino V.H. Jr.
Find out more about Oakland Slam and all the rest of the legs of the Summertime Beast at beastcrawl.org. And don't miss Summertime Beast, starting TODAY at 4 p.m. in Oakland!
Spotlight on Fierce Words, an allgender reading during Leg 3 of the Summertime Beast this Saturday at 7 p.m. at Summer Lounge! Curated by Natasha Dennerstein, out trans poet, Fierce Words assembles a group of the best Bay Area trans/gender nonconforming writers to sear your ears.
Fierce Words will feature Natasha, lynn breedlove, Mason J., Avren Keating, Cal Calamia and Jasper Jay. Don't miss this fire event, during Leg 3 of the Beast at Summer Lounge!
Spotlight on West Oakland to West Africa, reading during Leg 2 of the Summertime Beast, this Saturday at 5:30 p.m. at the Damel!
West Oakland to West Africa connects members of the African diaspora and Africa through the exchange of renshi poetry.
This year's exchanges included Oakland, Hawaii, Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana, featuring ayodele nzinga, Kevin Dublin, Lisa D. Gray, Nana Boateng, adrienne danyelle oliver, and DaJuan “DonJuan” Carter-Woodard.