Illumination
By Jeannette DesBoine on "In the dark times, reflection hides / itself in corners and waits..."
Street Spirit poetry
Sweeping in the Rain
By Tiny Gray-Garcia on Let the trucks come / Take my pain and wash it away with this endless rain
Slam Bio
By LeaJay Harper on I learned that a house / has walls and foundation / But my home was whatever / porch I found to sleep that night
abort that cop, baby
By Jaz Colibri on "throwing funding at “prevention” / don’t mean nothing / when the genocide is ongoing"
Ordinary People
By Jeannette DesBoine on We are changing our names— / From ‘poor’ people to ‘ordinary’ people
Loving Oakland is a Plywood Maw
By Cassandra Dallett on Loving Oakland / is a series of tripping / with no luggage / Of baggage without a place / to put it down.
Rats’ Teeth
By Jaz Colibri on "how many times / can a city take / the last things / an old black man has / on this earth?"
Echolocation
By Jaz Colibri on Poetry by Wood Street Community member and houseless trans organizer Jaz Colibri