Alyesha Wise features at Two Idiots Peddling Poetry

Join Alyesha Wise as she features for Two Idiots Peddling Poetry at The Ugly Mug in Orange, CA with a reading from her new collection My Older Brother, A Famous Rapper (El Martillo Press, 2026).

The Ugly Mug (open for the event)

261 N Glassell St, Orange, CA 92866 (NOT in Burbank!)

$5 cover fee, cash only

No outside food or drinks.

Ages 12+ unless otherwise specified

About the Author:

Alyesha Wise is an award-winning, published poet, educator & speaker from Camden, N.J. Currently residing in LA, she is the Director of Programming for Street Poets, Inc., an organization mostly serving juvenile injustice-involved youth with mentorship and arts programming. Alyesha has been featured on platforms and in publications such as OWN TV, BET, LA Times, Bustle, Afropunk, PBS, Buzzfeed and more. Other collabs include the ACLU, The Shabazz Center, The Nantucket Project, Brave New Films and the Google Interstellar Project. Ron Howard once wrote about Alyesha's work, "Very Powerful."

Two Idiots Peddling Poetry:

Two Idiots Peddling Poetry is a weekly poetry reading held at the Ugly Mug Café in Orange, California on Wednesdays at 8 pm. There is a cover charge (cash only, see event pages for more info). The reading generally has one or two featured poets reading for 20-30 minutes each, plus an open mic.

El Martillo Press:

Founded by Matt Sedillo and David A. Romero, El Martillo Press publishes writers whose pens strike the page with clear intent; words with purpose to pry apart assumed norms and to hammer away at injustice. El Martillo Press proactively publishes writers looking to pound the pavement to promote their work and the work of their fellow pressmates. El Martillo is the builder of bridges and the destroyer of walls.