Showcasing local artists and providing space for readings, book clubs and the occasional open mic        

Gallery space is now available for events/rental! Click here for more info

NOW SHOWING:

July 18th to July 31st, 2014
The Mission
Photographs by Larry E. Jones
Artists Reception: Friday July 18th 7-9pm.

ONGOING:

Second Thursdays:
Voz Sin Tinta - Poetry Reading Series
The event is FREE and everyone is welcome to witness art as energy. Each reading will be curated with no foreknowledge of how any one performance will unfold. Like ink blots spread on the page in unexpected ways, weʼll make somethings out of nothings, imprint the air with our voices, inhale interruptions, and crosshatch separate lines.
Voz Sin Tinta Curated by Jose Hector Cadena and Marguerite Muñoz
Sponsored by San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguía and Alley Cat Books

UPCOMING:

August 1st to August 15th, 2014
Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads in Them
Art by Ajit Chauhan
Reading and film screening:  Monday August 11th 7-9pm.

'Poetry'
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all 
this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one 
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise
if it must, these things are important not because a

high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because
they are
useful. When they become so derivative as to become 
unintelligible, 
the same thing may be said for all of us, that we
do not admire what
we cannot understand: the bat
holding on upside down or in quest of something to

eat, elephants pushing, a wild horse taking a roll, a tireless wolf
under
a tree, the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that
feels a
flea, the base-
ball fan, the statistician--
nor is it valid
to discriminate against 'business documents and

school-books'; all these phenomena are important. One must
make a distinction
however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the
result is not poetry,
nor till the poets among us can be
'literalists of 
the imagination'--above
insolence and triviality and can present

for inspection, 'imaginary gardens with real toads in them', shall
we have
it. In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand,
the raw material of poetry in
all its rawness and
that which is on the other hand
genuine, you are interested in poetry.