Monkey Brains: The Po’ Poets Project of POOR magazine – Houseless/Poor Mamas Write Homes with Poems (2025, World Premiere)

Houseless/Poor Mamas Build Homes with Poems/Po’ Poets Project of POOR Magazine
Po’ Poets of POOR Magazine (poor, houseless, disabled, youth and elder poets in resistance) presents writing from street, shelter and community-based theatre/poetry workshops with poor and houseless mamas. Followed by a trailer screening of “Crushing Wheelchairs” (co-directed by Adrian Diamond and Muteado Silencio, cinematography by Green Diamond Projects) featuring poems from their poetry/theatre collection. Both the movie and poetry collection are focused on “Mamafesting” (Tiny gray-garcia) healing-housing called Homefulness (a homeless peoples’ solution to homelessness currently housing 22 families in Oakland) in SF. Through cultural art, vision, prayer and poetry with 1st Nations spiritual guidance, Homefulness is coming to Yelamu (SF).

Blurb: Po’ Poets of POOR Magazine (poor, houseless, disabled, youth and elder poets in resistance) presents writing from street, shelter and community-based theatre/poetry workshops with poor and houseless mamas. They will also show the trailer to new movie, “Crushing Wheelchairs” (co-directed by Adrian Diamond and Muteado Silencio, cinematography by Green Diamond Projects).