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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 Mexican lesbian poet from The Mission. I LOVE MY WOMEN, SOMETIMES THEY LOVE ME depicts the lovers we’ve been and the lovers we’ve had. We haven’t always been fair; they haven’t always been kind. These poems compel us to consider what we keep... 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

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.
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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.
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avatar for Ladan Khoddam-Khorasani لادن خدام خراسانی

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
avatar for Gabriel Cortez

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
 
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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FREE, $10-$15 suggested donation

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
avatar for Jaelynn Walls

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
avatar for Brontez Purnell

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
 
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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FREE

Co-presented with Green Apple Books

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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avatar for Christin Rice

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 →
avatar for Jen Siraganian

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
  Poetry, FREE
 

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