​​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!""

THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING THE IMPORTANT WORK OF BEING POETS AND LOVERS OF POETRY!