Gary Hicks, whose work bristles with an acute challenge to the regressive and repressive facts of our times, is joined by Sharon Doubiago, who for decades has written from a fused personal-political-social standpoint that has earned her untold respect as a poet, short story writer, memoirist and essayist.

Jerry Ferraz, native son and peripatetic troubadour, hosts our twice monthly (1st & 3rd Mondays) poetry series.  An open mic follows the featured readers.

at wally’s (for Luis Rodriguez)
on a
good
saturday night
the notes
and the thunder
of electric
guitar, electric
organ and the
traditional
non-electric
ecstatic sax
drums, and
cymbals fire
and thunder
through the dark
tracer bullets
targetting
the sources
of our
genocide. on
a good
saturday night
god
has wrapped us
in a mantle
of salvation while
we fire
our staccato
total rhythmic
music, a statement
to those who
would destroy existence
that creation makes
no junk
ever.
— Gary Hicks