Summer Solstice Poetry Reading and Open Mic
Channel: SF Dharma Collective
Date: 23/07/2020

This reading was held in honor of the Ohlone people, the original inhabitants of the Bay Area. It was sponsored by the San Francisco Dharma Collective (SFDC) and Sacred Activism Now for Earth (SANE), and emcee’d by poet and dharma lover, Kitty Costello. It was the 9th in a series of community climate conversations*. With the climate crisis being momentarily eclipsed by Covid and racial violence, we gathered together these three existential perils into one bouquet, and called upon our poets to bring us their truth-telling and healing medicine in words and song. Featured poets were San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck, Thanissara, Norm Mattox, and Tehmina Khan, plus a dozen open mic readers.

1:10 - Thanissara
18:29 - Norm Mattox
34:50 - Tehmina Khan
49:03 - Kim Shuck
1:06:18 - Open Mic