Litquake’s Poetry Tuesday & Gypsy Jazz | 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, May 21, 2013
Litquake's Poetry Tuesday | SF’s Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2025

Guest curated by Litquake’s Robin Ekiss, this poetry program features Peter Kline, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Sam Sax, author and professor, Toni Mirosevich, with special musical guest Gypsy jazz band Gaucho.

• Former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Chace Lecturer at Stanford University, Peter Kline teaches creative writing at USF. His first collection of poems, Deviants, will be published in the fall by Stephen F. Austin State University Press.
• Jennifer Elise Foerster‘s first book of poems, Leaving Tulsa, was just released from University of Arizona Press. She is a graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts and the Vermont College of Fine Arts. A citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, she lives in San Francisco.
• Sam Sax is the first Bay Area Unified Grand Slam Champion, and the first queer Oakland Grand Slam Champion. He curates the reading series The New Sh!t Show, in San Francisco, and recently has been accepted as a Michener Fellow at the University of Texas’s MFA poetry Program.
• Toni Mirosevich is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently The Takeaway Bin. She’s received fellowships and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and Hedgebrook. She’s currently a Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, and former Associate Director of the Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives.

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