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Saturday, October 10
 

7:00pm PDT

Poetry World Series: Litquake Edition
Saturday October 10, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room
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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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avatar for Bhion Achimba

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
 
Wednesday, October 14
 

7:30pm PDT

Trading Pages: A Poetry/Fiction Exchange
Wednesday October 14, 2026 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
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Yin and yang? Or oil and water? Join us for this special, hopefully amicable exchange between fiction writers and poets…and no, they are not the unwitting subjects of an elaborate bet. This summer, Zach Williams traded pages with Judy Halebsky, Vanessa Hua with Dean Rader, and Kate Folk with Cintia Santana. Join us as these writers come together to read and respond in appreciation and celebration of each other’s narrative arcs and line breaks. Moderated by Litquake 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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Kate Folk

Kate Folk is the author of the novel Sky Daddy, which received the California Book Awards’ Silver Medal in Fiction and has been longlisted for The Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her story collection... Read More →
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Judy Halebsky

Judy Halebsky is the author of three poetry collections, including Sky=Empty which won the New Issues Prize. At Dominican University of California, she directs the MFA program and teaches courses in poetry and live storytelling. A fan of urban hikes, walking as transportation, and... Read More →
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Cintia Santana

Cintia Santana is a poet, translator, and interdisciplinary artist. Her debut poetry collection, The Disordered Alphabet (Four Way Books, 2023) received the 43rd Annual Northern California Book Award in Poetry, the 2024 IPPY Bronze Medal, the 2023 North American Book Award's Silver... Read More →
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Dean Rader

Dean Rader is a San Francisco-based poet, essayist, translator and critic. He has authored or co-authored 14 books. His debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize. His 2014 collection Landscape Portrait Figure Form was named by The Barnes & Noble... Read More →
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Vanessa Hua

Vanessa Hua is a nationally bestselling author of Coyoteland, A River of Stars and Forbidden City, and story collection Deceit and Other Possibilities, a New York Times Editors’ Pick. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, a California Arts Council Fellowship, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing, as well as... Read More →
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Zach Williams

Zach Williams' debut short story collection, Beautiful Days, was a New Yorker Best Book of 2024, a finalist for the 2025 California Book Award for First Fiction, and longlisted for the 2025 PEN / Robert W. Bingham Prize. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, ... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco
  Performance
 
Thursday, October 15
 

7:30pm PDT

Sweet and Lowdown: Poets at the Bar
Thursday October 15, 2026 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
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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 →
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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
 
Friday, October 16
 

7:30pm PDT

Irregular Feedback: Writers on Music
Friday October 16, 2026 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
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"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. 
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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
  Nonfiction
 

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