Latest Past Events

Fresno Writers Live

Veni Vidi Vici 1116 N Fulton St, Fresno

U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera says that Fresno is the "Capital of Poetry in the World." The Fresno State Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing takes that literary legacy seriously. Hear the latest poetry and prose from emerging #FresnoWriters in this storytelling and spoken word show, including voices from the Chicanx… Read More »Fresno Writers Live

A Hot Flash Gospel

The Lotus Room 626 E Olive Ave, Fresno

A Hot Flash Gospel is a bold, intimate one-woman spoken word experience that feels like revival, confession, and revolution all at once. Through poetry, storytelling, and sharp wit, LadyK navigates menopause, faith, grief, desire, Black womanhood, and spiritual reclamation...challenging who gets to preach, who gets believed, and whose bodies are deemed sacred. This is not… Read More »A Hot Flash Gospel

Electric Confessions: I Am Revolution

Art Annex 814 E Olive Ave, Fresno

From Fresno’s streets, Eve Reiland — a neurodivergent voice — turns lived survival into fearless, uncontainable poetic revolution. Fifteen years labeled “severely disabled” taught her what it means to be unseen, misunderstood, and underestimated. Yet here she exists still unbroken, carrying every tremor, bruise, and heartbeat into words that resist erasure. This is not performance.… Read More »Electric Confessions: I Am Revolution