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About The Event
Spring has sprung and it’s time for another edition of Starting Points! Come and hear these two features then stay for the Open Mic and some Cinco de Mayo themed drinks at Summer Bar.
MEET OUR FEATURES
Taneesh Kaur (“Core”) is a US-born Punjabi teaching artist based in San Francisco, a social justice advocate who uses nature to understand and dismantle systems of mental and physical oppression. Her full-length debut collection, Thawing: A Poetic Memoir, was released in March 2024 by Collapse Press. Taneesh has a Master’s in linguistics from San Francisco State University, and is a first year in the MFA program at University of San Francisco. More of her work can be found in English and Spanish at www.TaneeshCantos.com.
Rae Diamond is a neurodivergent interdisciplinary artist, educator and nature advocate who inhales life and exhales poems, music, and other creations. They are the author and artist of floating bones (First Matter Press), the author of The Cantigee Oracle (North Atlantic Books), and the founder of the Long Tone Choir. Rae is a student and teacher of Qigong, and harbors equally deep loves for the transcendent and the absurd. Find them online at raediamond.com and @raediamond on Substack.