Inter|Act Spoken Word Open Mic Featuring Geneffa Jahan

Are you ready to get your poetry on? Join us on July 15, 2025 at Satori Arts for Inter|Act, a FREE spoken word open mic night, from 7-9 pm, featuring Geneffa Jahan.

Geneffa Jahan is a community poet. For 20 years, she has written for local readings and published in her college’s literary magazines, Porter Gulch Review and Journal X. She won their Best Poem awards in 2015 and 2021, respectively. As an organizer, she created the Salaam Initiative and Chai Society at Cabrillo College, where she has taught English since 2000. She continues to curate cultural spaces through events such as Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here. Her photo project was displayed in the traveling exhibition, Shadow & Light.  Twice a reader for In Celebration of the Muse, she has helped coordinate that event for the HIVE Poetry Collective (member 2022-2024), for whom she has taped poetry podcasts aired on KSQD’s Sunday night Poetry Show. Her personal essay, “Laid to Rest,” is forthcoming in Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace Vol. II (2025), edited by Maxine Hong Kingston.

Come share your spoken word work or poetry with the community, or come out to support our local readers! Sign up to read starting at 6:30 pm. Limited seating. For more information, visit www.maginei.com/openmic.

1st and 3rd Tuesdays.

Free.

Satori Arts, 815 Almar, #9, Santa Cruz (warehouse building near the back, follow signs)

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