Jorge "Carving Knife" Mendez is a former host of the weekly Monday Night Open Mics at the Venue on 35th St. and produces and hosts a monthly featured artist's show called Feature Fridays. He started writing poetry as a child, later putting the skill he gained as a page writer into Hip-Hop format, releasing 3 independent albums on UKNODACREW Productions. In 2016 Jorge published a book of his works titled Keys & Crowbars with San Francisco Bay Press, and in 2023 released Poems I Stole From My Imaginary Friends with Wider Perspectives Publishing.