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Friday, October 16
 

7:00pm PDT

Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry
Friday October 16, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
FREE, $10-$15 suggested donation

Part of Words Around the World
Sponsored by Center for the Art of Translation


Poetry has always served as a mode of resistance in Palestinian culture. In defiance of dispossession and decades of military siege, of a nakba that never ended, of historical and cultural obfuscation, of unrelenting violence and thousands of martyred people, the “power to narrate,” as Edward Said wrote, remains a necessary tool for self-determination. As Palestinian history remains haunted by exile, violence, and grief, there’s more here that’s also true: queer and feminist perspectives, eco-poetry, meditations on love and time, and lineages of protest. These poems reclaim that power to narrate, bridging borders, languages, and generations to forge new conversations around resistance and liberation. Featuring Heaven Looks Like Us anthology contributors Zeina Hashem Beck, Janine Mogannam, Deema Shehabi, Jen Siraganian, Priscilla Wathington, and Omar Zahzah. Doors at 6:30pm. 
Speakers
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Zeina Hashem Beck

Zeina Hashem Beck is the author of This Was Supposed to Be About Beauty, a collection of mirror sonnets forthcoming from Penguin Books in March 2027. She’s the winner of the 2023 Arab American Book Award for Poetry for O, which was named a Best Book of the Year by Literary Hub and... Read More →
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Janine Mogannam

Janine Mogannam is a diasporic Palestinian poet, librarian, and literary curator from San Francisco/Ramaytush Ohlone land. Her work has been supported by Tin House, VONA, RAWI, Kearny Street Workshop, and The Speakeasy Project. She has performed and programmed with Still Here San... Read More →
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Deema Shehabi

Deema K. Shehabi is a Palestinian-American poet and editor. Deema is the author of Thirteen Departures from the Moon and co-editor with Beau Beausoleil of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, for which she received a Northern California Book Award. She’s also co-author of Water to Water... Read More →
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Priscilla Wathington

Priscilla Wathington is a Palestinian American poet and the author of the chapbook, "Paper and Stick." Her poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Four Way Review, Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is currently serving as a 2026-2028 Wallace Stegner... Read More →
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Omar Zahzah

Omar Zahzah is a writer, poet, freelance journalist, and Assistant Professor of Arab, Muslim, Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies in the Department of Race and Resistance Studies (RRS) at San Francisco State University. A scholar and organizer of Lebanese Palestinian descent... Read More →
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Jen Siraganian

Jen Siraganian is an Armenian-American writer and former Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, California. Her debut collection, Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead, which won the 2026 Perugia Press Prize, was a finalist for the Tupelo Press Dorset Prize and The Journal’s Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize, and a semi-finalist for the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, and Vassar Miller Prize. Her poems have won... Read More →
Friday October 16, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
Telegraph Hill Books 1501 Grant Ave, San Francisco

7:30pm PDT

Irregular Feedback: Writers on Music
Friday October 16, 2026 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
$12 adv / $15 door

"Music makes the people come together... yeah." That's right, Madonna. You said it. So astute. Join cultural critic, essayist, and curator Micheal Foulk (Queer Film Theory 101) for an evening of writers writing about music! Inspired by the perpetual beat inside us all and the iconic music criticism and archival work of writer Hanif Abdurraqib, Michael-Vincent D'Anella-Mercanti, Kai Gault, Joan Granite, Brittany Newell, and Kochina Rude read work written exclusively for tonight, a literary deep dive into our favorite albums, genres, and musical artists of the past 60 years. Doors at 6:30pm. 
Speakers
avatar for Michael-Vincent D'Anella-Mercanti

Michael-Vincent D'Anella-Mercanti

Michael-Vincent is a writer from South Philly living in San Francisco. His work explores queerness, labor, and cities. He's a big library guy.
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Brittany Newell

Brittany Newell is a writer and performer living in San Francisco. Her debut novel “Oola” was published by Henry Holt in 2017 at the age of 21. Her second novel “Soft Core” was published in 2025 by FSG in the US, UK and France. Her third novel “Blue Movie” will be published... Read More →
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Kochina Rude

Cary Escovedo is an internationally recognized harm reduction advocate, drag entertainer, communicable disease specialist, and performance artist living in Oakland, California. Doing business as drag queen “Kochina Rude,” he uses this persona as a vehicle for artistic expression... Read More →
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Micheal Foulk

Micheal Foulk is a non-binary queer comedian, writer, and construct thriving in Oakland, California. They are the curator and host of the film screening series Queer Film Theory 101 produced in collaboration with Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas with screenings across the country. Michea... Read More →
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Joan Granite

Joan Granite (she/her) is a DJ, producer, and is a devoted presence in the Bay Area underground. Her sets balance euphoria with introspection, held together by emotional intentionality and unshakeable optimism. Every set is a communion, connecting the senses between sweat, spirit, and sound... Read More →
Friday October 16, 2026 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco

8:15pm PDT

Generation Women: Wins & Losses
Friday October 16, 2026 8:15pm - 9:45pm PDT
$25 / $3 early bird discount until October 11th (code earlybird15)

Co-presented with Generation Women

We’re pleased to once again welcome Generation Women, a live multigenerational storytelling series. One woman or nonbinary performer in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s+ will share an original true story on the theme of “Wins & Losses,” whether personal, professional, psychological, or completely enigmatic. Founded by author Georgia Clark in New York City in 2017, the mission of Generation Women is to amplify underheard voices and create space for intergenerational connection and community. Featuring S.C. Bandreddi, Alexandra Romanoff, Kate Schatz, Bora Reed, Dashka Slater, and Sandra Jackson-Opoku. Hosted by writer, editor, and curator Samantha Schoech. Doors at 7:30pm.


Moderators
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Samantha Schoech

Samantha Schoech is a staff writer at NYT Wirecutter. Her debut book My Mother’s Boyfriends has been called “witty,” “feral,” and “acutely observed.” She first brought Generation Women to San Francisco in 2022. She lives by the beach in San Francisco with her bookish family... Read More →
Speakers
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Alexandra Romanoff

Alexandra Romanoff is a journalist, a cultural critic, and the author of the 831 Stories’s Big Fan series. She’s also written three novels (under Zan Romanoff), most recently LOOK, which O: The Oprah Magazine called “one of the LGBTQ books that will change the literary land... Read More →
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Sandra Jackson-Opoku

Sandra Jackson-Opoku is the author of three award-winning novels. The River Where Blood is Born won the American Library Association Black Caucus Award. Hot Johnny and the Women Who Loved Him was an Essence Magazine Bestseller in Hardcover Fiction. Savvy Summers and the Sweet Pot... Read More →
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S.C. Bandreddi

S.C. Bandreddi hails from California’s Bay Area, where she grew up scribbling stories deep into the night and hasn’t stopped since. When she’s not putting words on paper, she’s usually gaming, rewatching her favorite movies, or at an arcade trying to win as many plushies as she can. She... Read More →
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Kate Schatz

Kate Schatz is a feminist author, educator, and public speaker. She's the New York Times–bestselling author of the Rad Women book series; the novel Where the Girls Were; the 33 ⅓ book Rid of Me: A Story; and Do the Work: An Anti-Racist Activity Book, co-written with W. Kamau Bell. She lives in the Bay Area with her wife, three children, and pets. In all she does, Kate is committed to sharing radical histories that shine light on the marginalized people who've truly made America (and the world) great: the people of color, the immig... Read More →
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Bora Lee Reed

Bora Lee Reed has an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College and an MA in theology from the Graduate Theological Union. She was a 2023 Reese's Book Club LitUp Fellow. She lives and works in Berkeley, CA.
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Dashka Slater

New York Times–bestselling author Dashka Slater has been described as a “triple threat” for her success in journalism, adult fiction, and children’s literature. The author of many books of fiction and nonfiction for children, teenagers, and adults, her work has been translated into more than fifteen languages and has sold... Read More →
Friday October 16, 2026 8:15pm - 9:45pm PDT
The Lost Church 988 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
 

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