Three distinguished poets present poems “during a time of upheaval.”

Xochi Candelaria hails from San Juan Bautista and has taught at City College of San Francisco since 2008, with two books of poems and publication in a number of magazines to her credit. “When I entered the poetic field of Xochiquetzal Candelria’s words, I did not want to leave. I remain compelled by the bravery, by the audacity of images, by the stunning leaps.”–Joy Harjo

Carrie Mei-Lin Mar, the great-granddaughter of a railroad laborer, has published one volume of her poems with another, Water Guest, due out this year. Born in San Francisco, she teaches health education at a local high school. “Mar writes with a fine lyrical precision and a stirring range of feeling to connect the world of the reader to the world of the poem. In each of these pages you’ll find something human, something of yourself, as the poems call out: ‘Here you are, reflected / in the water’s depths.’” — Matthew Olzmann

Of Camille Roy’s work, Robert Glück has said, “Camille Roy’s skittish predatory language stalks the inexplicable, then pounces. Her nasty, luscious stories and poems make up a dyke coming-of-age novel, set not in the American family, but in our traveling explosion of body-race-class-gender… Essential reading for anyone who likes to see great writing meet the jumpy side of life.”