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Sunday, October 4
 

11:00am PDT

Hands in the Soil, Legs on the Pole: Queerness in the Material Realm
Sunday October 4, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
FREE, $10-$15 suggested donation

Sponsored by Yerba Buena Gardens Festival & Yerba Buena Partnership

Media sponsorship by 48 Hills
A part of the Litquake Out Loud series

How is a tree like a stripper pole? Where do the poetics of physicality and ecology overlap? As digital spaces collapse into slop and surveillance, how can queer communities in the material world dig and twerk toward pleasure and liberation? Here, QTBIPOC writers Brandon Logans, Kevin Madrigal Galindo, May-Li Khoe, and Nnenna Loveth
 explore the sensuality, tenderness, and resilience of both body and earth. These landworkers, dancers, and poets discuss how queerness informs and supports their relationship to tangible space, natural environs, and embodied movement. Curated by Mukethe Kawinzi
Speakers
avatar for May-Li Khoe

May-Li Khoe

May-Li Khoe (they/she) is a queer interdisciplinary artist, designer, and writer, born in the Netherlands to Chinese-Indonesian immigrant parents and raised in Vancouver, Canada. In the past, she invented new ways for people and computers to interact, many of which you probably use... Read More →
avatar for Mukethe Kawinzi

Mukethe Kawinzi

Mukethe Kawinzi is a trans shepherd and land steward working at the intersection of the pastoral, modern negritude, queer identity, and contemporary rural life. He has farmed in sustainable and organic agriculture for six years, with a focus on small ruminants, artisanal cheesemaking, non-violent livest... Read More →
avatar for Brandon Logans

Brandon Logans

Brandon Logans is a poet from Oakland, California. His debut collection published by Black Lawrence Press, Phosphene, was a finalist for the 94th California Book Award. He might describe himself as a rectangular sheet of honey 30” x 62”, 6” above any surface... Read More →
avatar for Nnenna Loveth

Nnenna Loveth

Nnenna Loveth (they/she) is an Igbo lesbian poet, dancer, and facilitator who tells stories of liberated Black matriarchal futures. They are utilizing the relationship between dance and poetry to explore themes of Black sapphic intimacies, mother-daughter connections, Odinala, and healing from... Read More →
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Kevin Madrigal Galindo

Kevin Madrigal Galindo (he/they) is a queer chicano hijo de su chingada madre from South San Francisco by way of Zapopan, Jalisco. He works as a chef teaching kitchen basics and nutrition through ancestral, plant based recipes in the Mission. Kevin hopes to stop the amerikkkan war machine and build a bett... Read More →
Sunday October 4, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Great Lawn, Yerba Buena Gardens 700 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA

11:00am PDT

Small Press Book Fair
Sunday October 4, 2026 11:00am - 4:00pm PDT
FREE, $10-$15 suggested donation

Sponsored by Yerba Buena Gardens Festival & Yerba Buena Partnership
Featuring 2026 festival sponsors Alta Journal and Center for the Art of Translation/Two Lines Press

Join a curated spread of our favorite small presses and literary magazines for Litquake’s Small Press Book Fair in Yerba Buena Gardens! Browse the best in local literature set to a day of poetry readings from Litquake Out Loud.

Participating vendors:

Alta Journal
Banana Pitch Press
Campfire Press
Center for Sex and Culture
Cita Press
City Lights
DoppelHouse Press
Double Negative Press
Feather Press
Foglifter Journal and Press
The Green Arcade / Ithuriel's Spear
Heresy Press
Heyday Books
Last Gasp Press
Locus Magazine
Two Lines Press
Mumblers Press
North Atlantic Books
Panamerica
PAWA
PM Press
Reed Magazine
Scrambler Books
Sixteen Rivers Press
Society for the Promotion of Speculative Fiction
Unsolicited Press
Weavers Press
ZYZZYVA
Sunday October 4, 2026 11:00am - 4:00pm PDT
Great Lawn, Yerba Buena Gardens 700 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA

12:30pm PDT

Fluent in Rebirth: Trans and Non-Binary Incantations
Sunday October 4, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm PDT
FREE, $10-$15 suggested donation

Sponsored by Yerba Buena Gardens Festival & Yerba Buena Partnership
Media sponsorship by 48 Hills
A part of the Litquake Out Loud series

If you’re looking for architects to dream up a new world, why not start with the folks who have already built one? As trans and gender non-confirming people, we are skilled at identifying what is meant to stifle and cage us, as well as envisioning what else is possible when we rage towards liberation. Trans people teach us what it means to transform the physical conditions of our world and show us what’s possible when our imaginations are freest and at their most feral. These Bay Area trans and non-binary artists will share work resisting erasure and conjuring prayers for the world we’re collectively building. Featuring Isa Borgeson, Mason J, Trinh Lê, and Reggie Edmonds-Vazquez. Curated by
Zara Jamshed.
Speakers
avatar for Reggie Edmonds-Vásquez

Reggie Edmonds-Vásquez

Reggie Edmonds-Vásquez (they/them) is a poet, educator, and cultural curator from Richmond, CA. Their work explores Black, queer, and gender-diverse identities and has earned recognition from Nomadic Press, Afro Urban Society, and the Museum of the African Diaspora. A two-time Berkeley... Read More →
avatar for Zara Jamshed

Zara Jamshed

Zara Jamshed (they/them) is a queer, trans, disabled Pakistani and Indian American poet from New York City living in the East Bay. They are the winner of the Penrose Poetry Prize for LGBTQIA+ writers and have work published in The Arrow, Foglifter, Kiwi Collective Magazine, and others. Zara has had their work supported by Anaphora Arts, Asian American Writers Workshop, Harvard University, Kearny Street Workshop, The Muslim Alliance of Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD), Open Mouth Literary, Periplus Collective, Queer Ancestors Project, Still Here... Read More →
avatar for Trinh Lê

Trinh Lê

Trinh Lê is a Pushcart-nominated poet of Vietnamese origin. They received the 2025 Black Mountain College Award from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and were a finalist for the 2024 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize. As a community archivist at the Bay Area Lesbian Arch... Read More →
avatar for Mason J.

Mason J.

Mason J. is a Lambda Literary Awarded San Francisco-born Afro-Indigenous Two-Spirit artist, historian, educator, Sephardic rootworker and community archivist exploring memory, ritual, and cultural recovery. Their work weaves public record with holistic care, nightlife, harm reduction, and... Read More →
avatar for Isa Borgeson

Isa Borgeson

Isa Borgeson (they/she) is a queer, mixed race, filipino american poet and community organizer from Oakland. In 2020, Isa was named a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow by the Poetry Foundation. They have also received fellowships from Lambda Literary, Voices of Our Nation Art Fou... Read More →
Sunday October 4, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm PDT
Great Lawn, Yerba Buena Gardens 700 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA

2:00pm PDT

Queer Trans Black & Indigenous Poetics: We Have Always Paved Our Own Ways
Sunday October 4, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
FREE, $10-$15 suggested donation

Sponsored by Yerba Buena Gardens Festival & Yerba Buena Partnership
Media sponsorship by 48 Hills
A part of the Litquake Out Loud series

Queer trans Black and Indigenous people have always paved our own ways of existing in the world, formed our own networks of care, and resisted dominant systems of power to preserve culture, traditions, and our ways of life. This reading will gather queer and trans Black and Indigenous poets Aleah Bradshaw, Ju(mia), and Zander Moreno Lozano to explore relation to the body, land, lineage, resistance, and the alternative futures we are actively building. Please join us for an afternoon of shared joy, righteous wordsmithing, and compelling truth. Curated by Vania Luna Gutierrez

Speakers
avatar for Ju(mia)

Ju(mia)

ju(mia) callaway is a Black Queer educator, xtender, rootworker, and intuitive artist from the deep south
working alongside the food care system in unceded Ohlone lands. you can find their work in Sistories Literary Magazine, manywor(l)ds space, and Foglifter Journal... Read More →
avatar for aleah bradshaw

aleah bradshaw

aleah bradshaw is a performing artist, writer, and educator with a passion for poetry and hip hop as tools of liberation and creative expression. They were born and raised in Colorado by two Trinidadian American immigrant parents, playing gamecube with their brother, and alternating Kirk Franklin... Read More →
avatar for Vania Luna Gutierrez

Vania Luna Gutierrez

Vania Luna Gutierrez (they/she) is an award winning poet, orator, and educator exploring what it means to hold relations — to land, lineage, language, community, history, and self. She affirms that poetry and education are essential liberatory tools and vehicles for storytelling. Vania grounds her... Read More →
avatar for Zander Moreno Lozano

Zander Moreno Lozano

Zander Moreno is an Indigenous Mexican, transgender, poet and organizer born from the soil of Mexico City, Mexico. At 2 years old, he and his family immigrated to the United States to escape patriarchal abuse. Zander has been awarded fellowships with Brooklyn Poets, Queer Ancestor’s Project, Q... Read More →
Sunday October 4, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Great Lawn, Yerba Buena Gardens 700 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
 

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