Behold Cafe La Promenade
Poets and writers congregate
To defeat winter’s bitter cold.
Don Brennan, Bill Mercer incite
Attendees are here to recite
Fervent verses, songs and stories
To defeat winter’s bitterness.
All hail Cafe La Promenade.
The new poetry series was born on a cold winter night, to the music of the berimbau. Chuck Bernstein played. A single string vibrating with a stone and gourd. Dan Brady gave the inaugural reading. Poets from far and near joined in the open mike. We remembered our dear friend Steve Mackin, who had attempted a few times to establish a reading in the Richmond neighborhood. Now we have a new hope.
La Promenade Reading series is every first Saturday of the month at 7pm. Cafe La Promenade, 3643 Balboa Street, San Francisco.
