The Weight We Carry: A Poetry Gathering on Memory, Inheritance, and What Remains

When: Sat, Aug 8, 2026 at 9:00 PM

Where: The Hidden Cafe, 1250 Addison St Suite 111, Berkeley, CA

Category: Meetup · Pets welcome: Dogs · Price: Free

There are things we carry without remembering when we first picked them up. A phrase spoken by a parent. A song heard in childhood. A gesture repeated across generations. A silence no one in the family learned how to name. Some inheritances are visible: a photograph, a recipe, a piece of jewelry, a book with someone else’s handwriting in the margins. Others live quietly within us. A language we understand but no longer speak. A fear whose origin we cannot trace. A tenderness learned from som

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