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Enjoy line breaks during your lunch break, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors.
![Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake & Yerba Buena Gardens Festival](https://i0.wp.com/litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Litquake_already-uploaded-4.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Enjoy line breaks during your lunch break, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors.
![Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake & Yerba Buena Gardens Festival](https://i0.wp.com/litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Litquake_already-uploaded-3.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Enjoy line breaks during your lunch break, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors.
![Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake & Yerba Buena Gardens Festival](https://i0.wp.com/litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Litquake_already-uploaded-2.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Enjoy line breaks during your lunch break, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors.
![Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake & Yerba Buena Gardens Festival](https://i0.wp.com/litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Litquake_already-uploaded-1.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Enjoy line breaks during your lunch break, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors.
![Mauro Javier Cardenas by Gabriella Angotti-Jones for The Chronicle](https://i0.wp.com/litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mauro-Javier-Cardenas-by-Gabriella-Angotti-Jones-for-The-Chronicle.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Now in its 17th year, Litquake began when a group of friends organized an afternoon of readings in Golden Gate Park. Over the years, it’s…
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Born in Ecuador, Mauro Javier Cardenas planned to return home after receiving an education in the United States, with the intention of changing the political…
![Yaa Gyasi by Leah Millis for The San Francisco Chronicle](https://i0.wp.com/litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Yaa-Gyasi-by-Leah-Millis-for-The-Chronicle.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Litquake runs Oct. 6-15 and begins with an opening-night gala celebrating 400 years of Shakespeare, with poet Gary Soto, harpist Shelley Phillips and a special…
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Translator Stephen Kessler and special guests will discuss Cortázar’s life and read selections from his work.