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
An exhibition of new work by Ajit Chauhan, with "Pacificas" by Colter Jacobsen
Reception:  Monday August 11th. 7-9pm.
Reading—Cedar Sigo, Alli Warren, and Colter Jacobsen
Film— Paul Clipson
Music—Trevor Montgomery  
——--

Marianna Moore, "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.