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Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake at Jessie Square
August 14, 2019 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Free
The monthly collaboration between Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival features an array of Bay Area poets and musicians.
Featured
- Roz Chast & Patricia MarxBeloved New Yorker contributors Roz Chast and Patricia Marx combine forces for an illustrated collection of love and relationship advice, "You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples." The book follows the duo's hit collab "Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It: A […]
- Carmen Maria Machado with Esme Weijun Wangpeter@citylights.com (Peter Maravelis) Author of the adored "Her Body and Other Parties" (a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction), Carmen Maria Machado visits the Bay Area for her anticipated memoir "In the Dream House", an innovative account of a relationship gone wrong and a dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of […]
- Gary Snyder and Jane HirshfieldTwo of the Bay Area's great poets read from their work. Snyder gained prominence early in his career as a member of the Beats, since earning international acclaim for his nature writing, which is informed by his immersion in Zen meditation and Buddhism. Hirshfield, whose 9th collection "Ledger" is out in March, is also author […]
- SFJAZZ presents The Just and the Blind with Marc B#1 SFJAZZ presents The Just and the Blind with Marc Bamuthi Joseph Saturday, January 18 84289 SFJAZZ sfjazz.org/tickets/productions/poetry-showcase-the-just-and-the-blind marshall@sfjazz.org (Marshall Lamm) Commissioned by Carnegie Hall and presented there as part of the annual Create Justice Forum, The Just and the Blind features longtime collaborators composer-violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain and spoken-word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph alongside […]