Name: Pochex Deluxe: An Ode to the Californiana Lengua
Start: 2026-10-24T20:00:00-0700
End: 2026-10-24T21:00:00-0700

One of the most anticipated literary nights of the year, Lit Crawl San Francisco is a massive, one-night literary pub crawl through San Francisco’s Mission District on Saturday, October 25th from 5:00-9:00pm. Join us to cap off another great festival, and don’t miss out on the afterparty at Drawing Room Annex!

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Pochex Deluxe: An Ode to the Californiana Lengua

Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT

Medicine for Nightmares (3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

Pochex Deluxe is a celebration of Pochos continuing to shape the California tongue within our collective BIPOC communities. It collapses the refrain that we are neither from here nor from there into a declaration: we are the makers of larynx, the makers of now and tomorrow’s literary landscape.

This reading honors the intersection of our tongues—a language that undoes, restores, revolts, and transmutes, continuously rehumanizing our gaze. It celebrates the present Californiana poem a that mimics and becomes cosmos, a poem that can only have the limbs of California.

Pochex, Pocha, Pocho, Poches is further defined here as a descendent body of migrating bodies that insists on being not only the ear, but the mouth of tomorrow’s poem.

Pochex Deluxe because it tears at the seams of tongues.

Authors & Performers

Josiah Luis Alderete

Josiah Luis Alderete is a ful blooded spanglish speaking Pocho left handed callejero de Aztlan. He is the curator and host of the long running Bay Area Latine reading series Speaking Axolotl and currently tends the Portal on Calle Veint Cuatro known as Medicina Para Pesadillas. His... Read More →

hector son of hector

hector son of hector is from Long Beach, CA and currently lives in Oakland. He is the child of Mexican immigrants, works in a hospital, dreams of short stories and writes poetry in secret.

María Guerrero

María Guerrero is a proud queer Chicanx, born in San Francisco, raised in Bayview–Hunters Point. Es maestra por el día y poeta a las 3 de la mañana. María writes about her experience living in her childhood home, her ancestors, her communities, y medicina

Mimi Tempestt

Mimi Tempestt (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and daughter of California. She has a M.A. in Literature from Mills College, and a Ph.D in Literature & Creative/Critical Writing from UC Santa Cruz. Her first book, the monumental misrememberings, is published with Co-Conspirator... Read More →

Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Medicine for Nightmares (3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

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Genre BIPOC, latine readings, memoir, poetry

Lit Crawl San Francisco 2026

Josiah Luis Alderete

hector son of hector

María Guerrero

Mimi Tempestt

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Lit Crawl San Francisco 2026

Josiah Luis Alderete

hector son of hector

María Guerrero

Mimi Tempestt

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