John Gardiner Memorial Reading + Jonathan Mendoza

John Gardiner Memorial Reading

Late last year, Southern California lost an amazing poet and human being.  Join us for a memorial reading for the late John Gardiner, as we read poems by, for and about him.  Tribute readers include Leigh White, Polina Hryn, Ricki Mandeville and more.

Special Guest Jonathan Mendoza

We’ll also be hosting traveling poet Jonathan Mendoza for a mini-feature this evening.

Jonathan Mendoza is a Boston-bred, Jewish and Mexican-American poet, youth social justice educator, community organizer and activist. He is a National Poetry Slam champion with the House Slam of Boston, Massachusetts, a three-time Best Poem winner at the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational, and author of When the Crows Come under Pizza Pi Press. He is a Berklee College of Music graduate with a degree in Arts for Social Advocacy and is currently based out of San Antonio, Texas as an immigrant rights organizer with Movimiento Cosecha. To learn more about his work, visit MendozaPoetry.com.