HAPPY NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!

San Francisco Public Library 
Presents
21st Annual
Poems Under the Dome


April 24th 2026
5:30-8:00pm
North Light Court, inside San Francisco City Hall



Show up!
Celebrate Poetry Month!
It's a FREE open mic poetry assembly.
All ages welcome to participate & enjoy.
Put your name in the green top hat
for a chance to read one poem!
Readers get 3 minutes, but reading a shorter poem
means more poets get to participate!

WHO is coming???
SF Poet Laureate Genny Lim
reads the First Poem!
Youth Poets!
​
And...
E.K. Keith
and 
Global Val Ibarra
and 
Charlie Getter
and 
Richard Ivanhoe
and
Dan Brady
will be there too!
Jorge Molina
will give us a community blessing!
And....
and you come too!
See you there!


Special thanks to the San Francisco Public Library, and the Friends of SFPL, the Mayor, & the Board of Supervisors,
for all these years of support for this amazing community event!

In Loving Memory of Poems Under the Dome Organizer
Diamond Dave Whitaker
1937-2026
"Cast a wide net!
​Find the common thread!
Let life flourish!
Don't panic... Keep it organic!"


We are STILL grateful to everybody who has helped every year!

Poems Under the Dome

Many Thanks to Our Generous Sponsors!

Thank you!

The San Francisco Public Library

Thank you!

The Friends of the San Francisco Public Library

Thank you!

Bird & Beckett Books

Thank you!
 
Cat Bell & Richard Ivanhoe
 
Thank you!

Global Val Ibarra

Thank you!

Dan Brady

Thank you!

C. E. Xavier

Thank you!

E.K. Keith

Thank you!

Diamond Dave Whitaker

Thank you!