Glide cofounder, poet was ‘first lady of Tenderloin’

Janice Mirikitani, the cofounder of San Francisco’s Glide Memorial Church and foundation and the city’s former poet laureate, died Thursday. She was 80.

Glide confirmed Mirikitani’s death in a message to supporters who were scheduled to attend a virtual justice event Thursday night, calling it “sad and sudden.” They said she died early in the

Paul Chinn / The Chronicle 2015 Former S.F. poet laureate Janice Mirikitani advocated for the city’s most vulnerable.