Litquake Poetry & Folk Band, Passenger & Pilot | Yerba Buena Gardens

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SF’s Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2025

The 2025 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival hosts a full lineup of free outdoor music, theater, circus, dance, poetry, and children’s programs. The Festival opens on Saturday, May 10, 2025 with La Santa Cecilia to kick off its 25th Anniversary Season.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Litquake Poetry Tuesday | SF’s Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2025

Guest curated by Litquake’s Robin Ekiss, the program features Rebecca Foust, James Cagney, Brynn Saito, CJ Evans, Barbara Jane Reyes, and special musical guests Jonathan Hirsch and Lara Cushing of Passenger & Pilot.

Rebecca Foust has been published in numerous poetry reviews and her last book, God, Seed, won the 2010 Foreword Book of the Year Award.

Oakland poet James Cagney is a Cave Canem fellow who has been published in Eleven-Eleven and Ambush Review. He is also a featured artist at the Berkeley Poetry Slam and Miko Kuro’s Midnight in Mumbai.

Brynn Saito is the author of The Palace of Contemplating Departure, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award.

CJ Evans is the author of A Penance, the editor of Two Lines Press, and the recipient of the 2013 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship.

Barbara Jane Reyes’ latest book is Diwata, winner of the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry, and finalist for the California Book Award.

China Langford and Jonathan Hirsch are the founding members of the chamber folk group Passenger & Pilot; writing lyric-driven, poetic songs steeped in American traditional music.

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