James Cagney is an award-winning Oakland poet and Cave Canem fellow.  His books include Ghetto Koans, Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory, and Martian: The Saint of Loneliness.

jelal huyler is a biracial Black poet from Oakland, born to a revolutionary Black mother. Carrying on throughout this dissociative so-called reality, he does not condone linear time  and sayeth fuck capitalism in perpetuity.  He is the author of the poetry collection A Man Was Lynched Today, published by Game Over Books.

Michael Koch books and hosts our monthly 1st Thursdays poetry series. An open mic conducted by Jerry Ferraz follows the featured poets.