Rafael Jesus Gonzalez

OCTOPUS DAY, 100 poets in 12 hours

21 JULY 2019 — sunday

OCTOPUS DAY, A Benefit for The Octopus Literary Salon, 12 HOURS, 100 POETS, 12 MUSIC ACTS!, readers include writers from the Octopus's regular series Babar in Exile, Naked Bulb, Liberate the Caged Voices, Asian Talk Story, There, Pandemonium Press Presents, and Dirty Old Women, along with dozens of others from the community, including Berkeley Poet Laureate Rafael Jesús González and so many more, plus a multi-voice performance on trauma at 1:00 by the writers of Liminal; two open mic slots per hour, time permitting, along with ten readers and one musician per hour until 8:00, then two hours of bands, Preening and Marbled Eye, Octopus has given much to the East Bay literary and music communities and is facing an enormous rent increase; they need your support, The Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster Street, Oakland, $20 donation, no one turned away, 10:00 a.m.-10:00 (full schedule: tiny.cc/OctopusDay)