February 2024 featured poet, Keana Aguila Labra.
Third Thursdays is a monthly poetry program in partnership with Poetry Center San Jose and hosted by Mighty Mike McGee!
Willow Glen Library, 1157 Minnesota Ave, San José, 95125
Sign up for the open mic begins at 6:30pm. Featured poet begins shortly after 7pm. Open mic to follow.
Poetry Center San José presents featured poet Keana Aguila Labra!
Keana Aguila Labra (they/them/she/her) is a Cebuana Tagalog Filipinx genre- and genderfluid poet, book reviewer, editor, and writer in diaspora residing on stolen Ohlone Tamyen land. She works to provide a safe literary space for underserved and underrepresented communities as Editor-in-Chief of literary magazine Marías at Sampaguitas and co-Founder of the BIPOC/LGBTQIA+ focused independent publishing house, Sampaguita Press. They are also the co-director of the Santa Clara County Youth Poet Laureate Program with Janice Lobo Sapigao and Karla Reyes-Santiago. She served as one of the Honorary Santa Clara County Poets Laureate in October 2021 along with Lorenz Mazon Dumuk. Her poetry was nominated for Best of Net in 2019 and 2020. Currently, they work to bring jazz education to the students of the Franklin-McKinley District with nonprofit San José Jazz. She is the author of the books, Natalie (Nightingale & Sparrow, 2020), No Saints (Lazy Adventurer Press, 2020), Mohilak (2021), (I am) Still (Self-Published, 2021) and Kanunay (2022). More of her work may be found on Substack. Her poetry may be heard here.
https://keana.journoportfolio.com
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Poetry Center San José's mission is to nurture and promote diverse literary expression in our community as a means of exploring, defining, and enriching the human experience.
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