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Friday, October 9
 

6:00pm PDT

"I took the lake between my legs": Women of a Certain Age Read Poems on Sex and Death
Friday October 9, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Vintage Berkeley Wine Shop
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Co-presented with Left Margin Lit and Vintage Berkeley

Back by popular demand, with an all-new lineup! Sex and death are central human concerns, but older women poets often find themselves silenced or sidelined on the first of these subjects. Here, in an event curated by Rebecca Foust, five women aged 40 and better—Mahogany L. Browne, Prageeta Sharma, Jen Siraganian, Melissa Stein, and Barbara Jane Reyes—will share frankly erotic work that refuses to be muted or mooted and makes a bulwark of bodily sensuality against death, time, and our aging selves. Alongside the reading, emceed by poet Tracey Knapp, winemaker Emily Fernwood will be on site to introduce Osa Major wines, which will be available for purchase by the glass. This event will take place on Vintage Berkeley’s secret garden patio—dress accordingly! Doors at 5:30pm.
Moderators
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Tracey Knapp

Tracey Knapp's second collection, Swerve, was released from Pine Row Press in Spring 2026. Her first full-length collection of poems, Mouth, won the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award and was published in 2015. Tracey has received awards and scholarships from La Romita School of Art in... Read More →
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avatar for Emily Fernwood

Emily Fernwood

Osa Major Wines
Emily Fernwood is a Berkeley-based winemaker devoted to crafting classic, site-driven wines under Osa Major Wines. Working with organically farmed vineyards across California, her approach emphasizes native fermentations, gentle handling, and little to no added sulfur, allowing the grapes an... 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 →
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Melissa Stein

Melissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible blooms (Copper Canyon Press) and Rough Honey, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, New England Review, Best New Poets, and others, and she’s received awards and fellowships from the NEA, Pushcart Prize, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She is a freelance editor in the Bay Area... Read More →
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Mahogany L. Browne

Mahogany L. Browne is a writer, playwright, organizer, and educator is the inaugural poet in residence at Lincoln Center, a 2022 Kennedy Center Next 50 Fellow, the inaugural Distinguished Writer in Residence at Wesleyan University, a MacDowell Arts Advocacy Awardee, a NAACP Image Award nominess and... Read More →
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Prageeta Sharma

Prageeta Sharma is the author of six collections of poetry; her most recent collection is Onement Won, out from Wave Books. She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Race, Creative Writing, and Artistic and Aesthetic Practices, a recent recipient of the 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, and is currently the Henry G. Lee... Read More →
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Rebecca Foust

Rebecca Foust’s books include You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems (Blue Light Press 2026) and Only (Four Way Books 2022). Her poems appear widely in venues including The Slowdown, Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, POETRY, and Southern Review, winning the James Dickey, New Ohio Review, Pablo Neruda, James Hearst, and Poetry International prizes in recent years... Read More →
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Barbara Jane Reyes

Barbara Jane Reyes is the author of Poeta en San Francisco, Diwata, Invocation to Daughters, Letters to a Young Brown Girl, and others. Her eighth book, Daughtersong Diaspore, is forthcoming in 2027.
Friday October 9, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Vintage Berkeley Wine Shop 2113 Vine St, Berkeley, CA 94709
  Poetry
 
Saturday, October 10
 

5:00pm PDT

¡Poetry on la Veinticuatro! Poets in the Window
Saturday October 10, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Medicine for Nightmares
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A reading series that puts poets in the front window of the bookstore to read their poems to the chingadera, locura, and beauty that is 24th Street. Featuring Mukethe Kawinzi, Cathy Arellano, Barbara Jane Reyes, and San Francisco’s current Poet Laureate Genny Lim. 
Speakers
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 →
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Barbara Jane Reyes

Barbara Jane Reyes is the author of Poeta en San Francisco, Diwata, Invocation to Daughters, Letters to a Young Brown Girl, and others. Her eighth book, Daughtersong Diaspore, is forthcoming in 2027.
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Cathy Arellano

Cathy Arellano is just another Chicana poet from San Francisco’s Mission District writing about growing up Brown and coming out Queer. Salvation on Mission Street shows the people and place she carries in her heart and I Love My Women, Sometimes They Love Me is broken-hearted lesbian... Read More →
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Genny Lim

Genny Lim is the 9th San Francisco Poet Laureate and former San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate. She was a former SF Arts Commissioner and the recipient of two lifetime achievement awards from Berkeley, California and Pen Oakland Writers, as well as the Spirit of Angel Island Award from... Read More →
Saturday October 10, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Medicine for Nightmares 3036 24th St, San Francisco
  Poetry, FREE

6:15pm PDT

¡Poetry on la Veinticuatro! Pan Dulce Poets
Saturday October 10, 2026 6:15pm - 7:15pm PDT
La Reyna Bakery
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We will make our way down 24th, to a 49-year-old Mission institution, La Reyna Bakery, for the Pan Dulce Poets, a beloved Mission series started in May of 2015 by Ricardo Tavarez. Here, poets read surrounded by pan dulce and used a converted paleta cart as a podium while Louie passed out cafecito y chocolate caliente to everyone. Featuring Ellie Lopez, Pan Dulce Poets founder Ricardo Tavarez, Michelle Ibarra, and former San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguía. 
Speakers
avatar for Michelle Ibarra

Michelle Ibarra

Michelle Ibarra is a Xicana poet with roots in both San Francisco’s Mission District and South City. Her poetic practice is heavily influenced by the 1970s Xicanx art movement, Rasquachismo, her working class upbringing, and her hatred for the governing state. Through her work... Read More →
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Ricardo Tavarez

Ricardo Tavarez is a Bay Area poet, educator, digital creator, and documentarian who teaches high school in Hayward and was a long-time host of the Pan Dulce Poets reading series in the Mission District at La Reyna Bakery. Member of La Brigada, an arts collective that organizes the... Read More →
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Ellie Lopez

Ellie Lopez is a prolific writer from the Central Valley that intends to use her platform to honor her hometown and roots. She is one of the rare few that has achieved great things in her writing career—yet, she recognizes why such triumph has blossomed—home, the 209. In this... Read More →
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Alejandro Murguía

Alejandro Murguía is a two-time winner of the American Book Award. his most recent publications include, Stray Poems, City Lights Books, and The Other Barrio: New and Selected Stories, Arte Publico, 2025. he co-edited The Word Turned Butterfly, contemporary Mayan Poetry.
Saturday October 10, 2026 6:15pm - 7:15pm PDT
La Reyna Bakery 3114 24th St, San Francisco
  Poetry

7:00pm PDT

Poetry World Series: Litquake Edition
Saturday October 10, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room
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21+

Two teams of award-winning poets, including Bhion Achimba, Rhoni Blankenhorn, Safia Elhillo, Prageeta Sharma, Angel Dominguez, and Ben Gucciardi, take turns batting at topics pitched to them by the audience. Fastballs, curveballs, knuckleballs: these poets won’t know what’s coming next! Hilarity and brilliance both guaranteed. Daniel Handler will be tonight’s emcee, and eminently qualified umpires—Randall Mann and Katie Peterson—will score each batter’s reading. The winning team takes the series title. Don’t forget to bring a topic to stump the poets with! Book sales/signing follow the final inning. Doors at 6:30pm.
Moderators
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Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler is the author of seven novels, including Why We Broke Up, All The Dirty Parts and Bottle Grove, and most recently a memoir, And Then? And Then? What Else? As Lemony Snicket, he is the author of far too many books for children, including Poison for Breakfast, the four-volume All The Wrong Questions and the thirteen-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events, which has been adapted for screen and television. He lives in San Francisco with the illustrator Lisa Brown, to whom he is married... Read More →
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Bhion Achimba

Bhion Achimba grew up in rural southeastern Nigeria and is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. A graduate of Brown University's MFA program, they were named the 2023 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow by the Poetry Foundation and have been published in the... Read More →
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Rhoni Blankenhorn

Rhoni Blankenhorn’s poems have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry Daily, The Slowdown, AAWW’s The Margins, and elsewhere. Her work has received support from Bread Loaf, Saltonstall, Sewanee, and Storyknife. Rhoni’s debut, Rooms for Dead and the Not Yet, was published by Trio House Press in 2025... Read More →
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Safia Elhillo

Sudanese by way of Washington, D.C., Safia Elhillo is the author of Girls That Never Die, The January Children, Home Is Not a Country, and Bright Red Fruit, and co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem and Stanford University, and her awards include a California Book Award, the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, and an Arab American Book Award. She has been a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the... Read More →
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Prageeta Sharma

Prageeta Sharma is the author of six collections of poetry; her most recent collection is Onement Won, out from Wave Books. She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Race, Creative Writing, and Artistic and Aesthetic Practices, a recent recipient of the 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, and is currently the Henry G. Lee... Read More →
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Angel Dominguez

Angel Dominguez is a Latinx poet and artist of Yucatec Maya descent, born in Hollywood and raised in Van Nuys, CA by their immigrant family. They now live amongst the Santa Cruz Mountains in Bonny Doon, CA. They’re the author of Don’t Tell My Mother If They Kill Me (Nightboat... Read More →
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Katie Peterson

Katie Peterson is the author of six collections of poetry, including Fog and Smoke (2024) and Life in a Field (2021). She teaches English at UC Davis. She is a middle child. 
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Randall Mann

Randall Mann is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Deal: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2023). His new collection, Memory Puzzle, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2027. He lives in San Francisco.
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Ben Gucciardi

Originally from San Francisco, Ben Gucciardi is the author of Arguments (Persea Books, 2026), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, and West Portal (University of Utah Press, 2021). His recent poems appear in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry Unbound,... Read More →
Saturday October 10, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco
  Poetry

7:30pm PDT

¡Poetry on la Veinticuatro! La Lunada
Saturday October 10, 2026 7:30pm - 8:30pm PDT
Galeria de la Raza
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Finally we will end the crawl at the mama of all Mission reading series, La Lunada! Originally started in 1998 in a Mexican restaurant in San Jose, La Lunada relocated to Calle 24 in 2004 at the original location of Galeria de la Raza on the esquina of 24th and Bryant. Since then the Lunada has been where countless poets from the neighborhood and beyond have gathered and celebrated the power of poesía. Featuring Kevin Madrigal Galindo, Rebeca Abidaíl Flores, and Know Expressions.
Speakers
avatar for Kevin Madrigal Galindo

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 →
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Rebeca Abidaíl Flores

Rebeca Abidaíl Flores is a Mexican and Salvadoran artist from Fresno, CA. She connects working class labor to joy. In her artistic practice, she creates objects rooted in labor like paletas, mangüeras, and camisas to reimagine them as interactive pieces of play. Her creative fellowships... Read More →
Saturday October 10, 2026 7:30pm - 8:30pm PDT
Galeria de la Raza 2779 Folsom St, San Francisco
  Poetry, FREE
 
Tuesday, October 13
 

6:00pm PDT

Invitation | Abandonment: A Collective Poem in Assembly
Tuesday October 13, 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT
Et al.
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Rooted in practices of care, vulnerability, and experimentation, this event asks: how do we dwell in the spaces between spaces? And what must we invite or abandon there to return more connected, understanding, and whole? Featuring readings from poets aracelis girmay, Ladan Khoddam-Khorasani, Gabriel Cortez, and Dora Prieto. Come listen, come help write a collaborative closing poem drawn from the room. Doors at 6:30pm.
Speakers
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Ladan Khoddam-Khorasani لادن خدام خراسانی

Ladan Khoddam-Khorasani (she/they) is a poet, educator and public health practitioner. She is interested in how we will use poetry and language to take care of one another.

لادن خدام خراسانی
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Gabriel Cortez

Gabriel Cortez is a poet, educator, and organizer based in the Bay. His work has appeared in Poem-A-Day by The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, The Rumpus, The Breakbeat Poets Anthology Volume 4, and elsewhere. A VONA, Poetry Incubator, and #BARS workshop alum, he has received awards from the Rainin Foundation, the Gerbode Foundation, National Performance Network, the University of California, Palette Poetry, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Gabriel is pursuing his MFA... Read More →
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Dora Prieto

Dora Prieto is a Colombian-Canadian poet. She is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from University of British Columbia, where she served as Poetry Editor of PRISM international. Her work explores migration, embodiment... Read More →
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aracelis girmay

aracelis girmay is a poet, editor, and teacher. Her poems and essays have been published widely and can be found in e-flux, The Paris Review online, and The Poetry Review. Collaborations include an experiment in performance with musicians Ashleigh Gordon and Brittany J. Green as well... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT
Et al. 2831a Mission St, San Francisco
  Poetry, FREE
 
Thursday, October 15
 

7:00pm PDT

Decentered Arts presents Poolside Poets
Thursday October 15, 2026 7:00pm - 9:30pm PDT
St. Joseph’s Art Society
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$30

Immerse yourself in a dreamy night of poetry, music, and dance by the pool at the breathtaking historic venue founded by Ken Fulk. Dress to impress (disco theme!), and remember to wear your dancing shoes. Performances by poets Bridget Clancy, Shane King Zackery, Jaír Griffin, Denise Masiel, spinelli, James Morehead, Maya Anne , and Papi Grande, alongside an epic musician, dancers, fashion, community, and more! Hosted by Rhea Joseph & Liz Cahill. Doors at 6:30pm.
Speakers
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Bridget Clancy

Bridget is a half full bottle of Fireball whiskey
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Shane King Zackery

Shane King Zackery is a queer black poet, filmmaker, and technologist who has lived in the Bay for over 10 years. They like to sit in the river and talk in circles about being human. Occasionally, they write something down about the nature of time, space, and love.
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Jair Griffin

Jair Griffin is a well-rounded artist native to Atlanta, Georgia. He attended Kennesaw State University, majoring in music and minoring in philosophy. When he wasn't practicing his cello, he was exploring all of his other passions, such as photography, painting, and even jewelry-making... Read More →
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Denise Masiel

Denise Masiel is a Caribbean-American storyteller from Texas. She is an essayist and poet dedicated to the art of capturing feelings of warmth, passion, and visceral emotions in her work. Her poetry has been published in The Ana and Mujer Manifesto, and she is an active spoken word... Read More →
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Spinelli

Spinelli is a queer witch who has been writing poetry her whole life. When she was 7, she devoted an entire journal to creative writing about cats. In college, she wrote and performed a one-woman show about cat ladies. Her poems today may or may not be about pussy.
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James Morehead

James Morehead is Poet Laureate Emeritus of Dublin, California, host of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, and has published several poetry collections including "The Plague Doctor". “tethered” was transformed into an award-winning animated short film, “Twilight in the Sculpture... Read More →
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Maya Anne

I am a multi-media artist that began my poetry practice in honor of my grandfather who was also a poet. My first poems were out about relationship and the quiet lessons I learned about life being in his presence. I now write with the lens of an educator, painter, sewist and woman... Read More →
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Papi Grande

Papi Grande (He/Him/Prince) is an Oakland raised spoken word artist, educator, and published author known for his dynamic stage presence and emotional resonant storytelling. His work explores identity, community, and personal evolution creating powerful connections with audiences... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 7:00pm - 9:30pm PDT
St. Joseph’s Art Society 1401 Howard St, San Francisco
  Poetry

7:30pm PDT

Sweet and Lowdown: Poets at the Bar
Thursday October 15, 2026 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room
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This celebration of poetry collates a half-dozen poets’ stylings, live on our darkest, dankest stage. Featuring multi-hyphenate award winners Nancy Miller Gomez, Prairie Moon Dalton, Ibe Liebenberg, Leigh Lucas, and Preeti Vangani for a lurid evening of ebullient verse. Hosted by Litquake Artistic Director Graham Todd. Doors at 6:30 PM. 
Moderators
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Graham Todd

Graham Todd is a fiction writer and the Artistic Director of Litquake, San Francisco's Literary Festival. He studied literature and religion at Stanford and received his MFA from Bowling Green. His writing has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Southampton Review, Notre Dame Review, Epiphany... Read More →
Speakers
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Prairie Moon Dalton

Prairie Moon Dalton is a Southern Appalachian poet born and raised in Western North Carolina. She is a 2025–2027 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. Her work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, TriQuarterly, Cagibi, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA at North Carolina State University... Read More →
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Leigh Lucas

Leigh Lucas is the author of Splashed Things (Boa Editions, 2026), selected by Maya C. Popa for the A. Poulin Jr. Prize. Her chapbook Landsickness (Tupelo Press, 2024) was selected by Chen Chen for the 2023 Sunken Garden Poetry Chapbook Award. Leigh’s writing can be found in Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Poetry Society of America, Electric Lit, and elsewhere. She holds a BA from Stanford and an MFA from Warren Wilson... Read More →
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Nancy Miller Gomez

Nancy Miller Gomez (she/her) is the author of Inconsolable Objects (YesYes Books) winner of the 2025 Patterson Poetry Prize, and Punishment (Rattle Chapbook Series). An Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, ... Read More →
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Preeti Vangani

Preeti Vangani is a poet & writer from Bombay based in San Francisco. She is the author of the poetry collections, Mother Tongue Apologize (2019), and Fifty Mothers, (River River Books, 2026). Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, and Prairie Schooner, among other places. Her debut short story won the 2021 Pen/Dau Emerging Writers Prize. Vangani has been a resident at UCross, Djerassi and Ragdale. She has received artist grants from San Francisco Arts Commission and YBCA, and is a 2026-27 Steinbeck fellow. She holds an MFA in... Read More →
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Ibe Liebenberg

Ibe Liebenberg is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. He lives in Paradise, California and works as a firefighter, and a lecturer at Chico State University. He is a recent graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in both poetry and fiction. He has been published... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco
  Poetry
 
Saturday, October 17
 

7:00pm PDT

An Evening Spell: Trans Poetry & Hardware Hang
Saturday October 17, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
The Crown
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An evening time experimental live hardware performance, reading, and party featuring trans hardware musicians and poets. Featured musicians Cat Laugian and Daria Lourd. Curated by Jaelynn Walls. 
Moderators
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Jaelynn Walls

Jaelynn Walls is an Oakland-based curator, administrator and author. Their novel The Queer Girl is Going to Be Okay (Levine Querido, 2023) was named a Publishers Weekly Best of the Year YA novel. They have written for Teen Vogue, Artsy, Google Arts and Culture, and was a 2022 Lambda... Read More →
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Daria Lourd

Daria Lourd is an Oakland-based audio producer, DJ, and hardware musician. Lourd is a trailblazer in the Bay Area electronic music scene as of the last decade, originally hailing from Memphis, TN. She is best known for her prolific catalogue of energetic, emotional and sample-heavy... Read More →
Saturday October 17, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
The Crown 2523 Broadway, Oakland
  Poetry, FREE
 
Thursday, October 22
 

8:00pm PDT

Hieu Minh Nguyen & Friends
Thursday October 22, 2026 8:00pm - 10:00pm PDT
The Stud
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Co-presented with The Stud

In celebration of Hieu Minh Nguyen's third poetry collection, Staying Still, join Litquake and The Stud for a night of readings and drag performances that highlight the power and resonance of stillness. Featuring drag from Pam, Hera Wynn, Mary Vice, and Hands. Readings from Brittany Newell, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Brontez Purnell, and Garrett Schlichte. Hosted by curator Micheal Foulk and Hands. Doors at 7:00 PM. 

Speakers
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Brontez Purnell

Brontez Purnell is the author of several books, most recently 100 Boyfriends, which won the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction, was longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, and was named an Editors... 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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Garrett Schlichte

Garrett Schlichte is an award-winning columnist, writer, and chef living in San Francisco. Garrett's work has appeared online and in print in The Washington Post, The New York Times, THEM, Jezebel, Slate, and other outlets. Garrett has worked in restaurants across the Bay Area fo... Read More →
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Hera Wynn

Hera Wynn is a transgender performer in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area, for over 5 years she has made her mark across the scene as a performer, producer, hostess, and transgender activist. From her fierce looks to enchanting performances she will no doubt leave you wanting more... Read More →
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Mary Vice

Mary Vice is a staple of San Francisco’s nightlife scene. She is the current reigning winner of both the High Princx and Rollin with the Homos pageants, and has won a handful of other local titles including Miss Gay San Francisco. She emcees two weekly shows: Pillows, every Monday at Powerhouse... Read More →
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Han (Hands) Ayasse

Hands is a Bay Area Drag King, current reigning Father of Pearl 2026, first-born son, self-made man, the man in the House of Cringe and the Man Cave, and your toxic ex-boyfriend's toxic-ex boyfriend. 
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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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Hieu Minh Nguyen

Hieu Minh Nguyen is the author of the poetry collections, This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014), Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018), and Staying Still (Tin House, 2026). Winner of the 2019 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry from the Publishing Triangle, some of his other... Read More →
Thursday October 22, 2026 8:00pm - 10:00pm PDT
The Stud 1123 Folsom St, San Francisco
  Poetry, FREE
 
Friday, October 23
 

7:00pm PDT

Lift Every Voice: A Festival Finale in Verse
Friday October 23, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
First Presbyterian Church of Oakland Fellowship Hall
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Coming to us from Chicago, Phillip B. Williams brings us his newest collection Lift Every Voice, a staggering tribute to personal and collective evolutions, a vital chorus that answers only to God, community, and the empowered self. What better way to ground us on the penultimate night of Litquake 2026? Litquake invites you in alongside poets Fatimah Asghar, Stephanie Horvath, D.A. Powell, D.M. Spratley, and Phillip B. Williams to bear witness to the beauty and resiliency of our words and community.. Hosted by Litquake’s Artistic Director Graham Todd. Doors at 6:30pm. 


Moderators
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Graham Todd

Graham Todd is a fiction writer and the Artistic Director of Litquake, San Francisco's Literary Festival. He studied literature and religion at Stanford and received his MFA from Bowling Green. His writing has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Southampton Review, Notre Dame Review, Epiphany... Read More →
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Phillip B. Williams

Phillip B. Williams is the author of the novel Ours and three collections of poetry: Thief in the Interior, which was the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a Lambda Literary Award, Mutiny, which was a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry and the winner of a... Read More →
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D. M. Spratley

D. M. Spratley is a writer from the American South. A Wallace Stegner Fellow, Cave Canem Fellow, North Carolina Arts Council Fellow, and William C. Friday Fellow for Human Relations, she graduated from the MFA program at Hollins University and studied comparative literature and creative... Read More →
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D A Powell

D A Powell is the author of numerous collections of poetry including Low Hanging Fruit (Foundlings Press, 2022) and Atlas T (Rescue Press, 2020). His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and the John Updike Award from the American... Read More →
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Fatimah Asghar

Fatimah Asghar, author of If They Come for Us, is a poet, filmmaker, educator, and performer. They are the writer and co-creator of Brown Girls, an Emmy-nominated web series that highlights friendships between women of color. They also were a co-producer on Ms. Marvel for Disney... Read More →
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Stephanie Horvath

Stephanie Horvath is the author of Field of Vision, winner of the 2025 National Poetry Series, published by Penguin in October 2026. She lives in Northern California and teaches at Stanford University.
Friday October 23, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
First Presbyterian Church of Oakland Fellowship Hall 2619 Broadway, Oakland
  Poetry, Pay What You Can
 
Tuesday, December 1
 

7:00pm PST

Jen Siraganian: Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead
Tuesday December 1, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PST
Green Apple Books on the Park
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Join us when we welcome Jen Siraganian for the release of her debut poetry collection, Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead! Siraganian traces a self shaped by history, fragmentation, and memory as she weaves her family’s past in the Middle East with her identity as an Armenian American woman and mother. Whether portraying a grandparent’s survival during the Armenian Genocide, a father’s childhood in 1940s Palestine, or a son’s birth when “death is a neighbor,” Siraganian’s poems interrogate concepts of home, origins, belonging, and displacement. Featuring readings from Tongo Eisen-Martin, Nancy Miller Gomez, and Christin Rice. Watch online at Green Apple Books Youtube. 

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Christin Rice

Christin Rice is a champion of doing the brave things that matter to you. She is a writer, a momma, a coach, and the author of The Clinic and The ABC's of Pandemic Parenting.


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Nancy Miller Gomez

Nancy Miller Gomez (she/her) is the author of Inconsolable Objects (YesYes Books) winner of the 2025 Patterson Poetry Prize, and Punishment (Rattle Chapbook Series). An Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, ... 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 →
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Tongo Eisen-Martin

Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet, movement worker, and educator. His curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He is the author of Someone?... Read More →
Tuesday December 1, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PST
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco
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