
A place for meetings, readings, showings, and other creative doings.
1601 Paru St., Alameda, CA 94501 • 510 523-6957
Featured Guest Readers
​Alameda Island Poets ~ Wednesday, May 7 ~ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ~ On Zoom
Celebrating National Poetry Month
Featured our Youth Poets: Sehinne Yohannes; Ellie Dodds; Truly Edison; James Moore; Mae Spiegel; Benjamin Fong; Catherine (CJ) George; and Nala Brock.


Sehinne Yohannes
Sehinne Yohannes is a high school junior of San Leandro’s Social Justice Academy, and a passionate advocate for ethnic studies, equity, and youth activism. She is a 2025 finalist in both the Youth Speaks Poetry Slam and the Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Program. Sehinne also serves as the anti-corporate extraction lead for the Youth vs. Apocalypse No One is Disposable Committee. She writes about revolution, resilience, and her love for her communities, and she hopes to inspire Bay Area youth as her favorite local poets once inspired her!
Ellie Dodds
Ellie Dodds is the high school poet laureate emerita (2014-2015) for Alameda Community Learning Center (ACLC) and the editor of the 2016 volume of ACLC’s poetry anthology series “Wandering Minds Dancing Words”. She is currently on the Alameda Island Poets (AIP) board and is one of the members who posts about upcoming AIP monthly readings on the official AIP Facebook page and Instagram.​​