Poets Sarah Menefee and Patrick Dunagan read tonight to celebrate the release of “There You Are,” Sarah’s chapbook just published by Bird & Beckett.

An accomplished poet with deep roots in the San Francisco tradition of political activism, Sarah is a homeless rights activist, a founding member of Homes Not Jails and First they came for the homeless, a tent-community based, homeless-led homeless rights organization which organizes street actions to demand housing and defy criminalization. She is also a founding member of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America and the Revolutionary Poets Brigade, and serves on the Editorial Board of the People’s Tribune, where she edits the homeless movement pages.

Patrick James Dunagan is a poet and essayist, raised a skateboarder in Southern California who became interested in poetry as a transplanted teenager living in New Hampshire, refining his reading skills in the course of earning a BA in literature and philosophy at New England College before coming to San Francisco and New College, where he earned a joint MA/MFA studying in the poetics program with Tom Clark, Adam Cornford, Gloria Frym, Joanne Kyger, George Mattingly, and David Meltzer. He has a raft of publications to his credit, and no doubt a boatload of manuscripts in the hopper.