Poetry Reading

The Golden Sardine in North Beach hosts the First Friday Poetry Series — an evening of live readings in the wine bar’s cozy poetry loft featuring acclaimed poets D. A. Powell, D’mani Thomas, and Baruch Porras‑Hernandez. Set amid shelves of books and glasses of wine, this series anchors the North Beach First Friday poetry crawl, offering a focused, intimate space to hear contemporary work from a Mohr Visiting Poet at Stanford, an Oakland‑based visual theorist and writer, and a Lambda Literary‑recognized Bay Area performer and organizer.