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Featured Guest Readers
​Alameda Island Poets ~ Wednesday, September 3 ~ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ~ On Zoom
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month
Featured Reader: César Love, Francisco Herrera and Youth Poet Delilah Young
César Love
César Love is a Latinx poet influenced by the Asian masters. A native of the East Bay, he is the author of two books of poetry, While Bees Sleep and Birthright. César is a co-editor of the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal. He has been busy composing many new poems.
Francisco Herrera
Francisco Herrera, Cultural Worker, Singer-songwriter, has produced 7 albums and writes scores for film and theater. He has shared the stage with Jon Fromer, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Jesse Jackson, and Emma's Revolution at mass actions like America's Watch and the Battle for Seattle, with over 250,000 people shutting down the WTO in 1999. Francisco can also be found in intimate gatherings of women recovering from domestic violence, day laborers organizing for a universal wage, children becoming bilingual, and Interfaith groups shutting down private prisons, as he performs uplifting songs that move, teach, and inspire. His latest album Honor Migrante honors the grace and beauty of the migrant community.
Delilah Young
Delilah Young is a freshman at Bishop O'Dowd High School and an Oakland Youth Poet Laureate finalist. Since she was little she has always found an interest in words. Whether it be language, calligraphy, or writing, words seem to follow her wherever she goes, and this led her naturally towards poetry. She finds poetry to be an art, a practice, and a skill where words mean more than just words. It offers her a place to express and process the things going on around her, and turn those thoughts into