Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake at Jessie Square
August 14 @ 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
- EastWest StoryfestEth-Noh-Tec, a kinetic story theater organized by artists Nancy Wang and Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo, presents a night of storytelling from near and far: Karin Amano, from Mt. Airy, GA; Linda Yemoto, from Berkeley, CA; Anne Shimojima, from Lorton Grove, IL; Motoko, from Amherst, CA; Kiran Rana, from Alameda, CA; and Archy Arch J (Archy Jamjun), from […]
- Sarah Rose Etter with Trisha Low & Tommy PicoSarah Rose Etter ("Tongue Party") celebrates her anticipated debut novel "The Book of X" with a launch party featuring poets Trisha Low and Tommy Pico. The book follows Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot, from childhood on the family meat farm to a desk job in the […]
- M. the Heir ApparentIn 2015, after Berkeley-based songwriter Kyle Terrizzi immersed himself in the I Ching, which he stumbled on in a used bookstore, he was inspired to abandon his previous work (The Plastic Arts) to launch a new creative life as M. the Heir Apparent. Drawing comparisons to Ed Sheeran and Jeff Buckley, the literary musician is […]
- Brandon R. BrownProfessor of Physics at USF Brandon R. Brown presents his new book "The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America's First Moon Missions" (Oxford University Press), which follows a handful of engineers of that time as they recount the largely behind-the-scenes work they did to take mankind to the moon. Himself a son of an Apollo engineer, Brown […]
- Peg Alford Pursell w/Caille Millner & SugartownAuthor of "Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow," Peg Alford Pursell launches her anticipated second book, "A Girl Goes Into the Forest," which explores and illuminates love and loss in 78 hybrid stories and fables. Caille Millner ("The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification") joins Peg in conversation, and the event will be […]