Litquake’s 2013 Outdoor Poetry Festival | SoMa

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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, October 15, 2013
Poetry Tuesday | SF’s Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2025

Words and music in Jessie Square from local poets, writers, songwriters, and musicians, guest curated by Litquake’s Robin Ekiss.

Broad Daylight: Contemporary Women Poets Read

• Genine Lentine is the author of Poses: An Essay Drawn from the Model, Found Dharma Talks, and Mr. Worthington’s Beautiful Experiments on Splashes. She teaches privately and conducts an ongoing Writing Studio in San Francisco.
• Solmaz Sharif is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University where she is at work on a poetic rewrite of the US Department of Defense’s dictionary.
• Corey Van Landingham is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and the author of Antidote (forthcoming from Ohio State University Press) . Her poems have appeared in AGNI, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere.
• Tess Taylor teaches at UC Berkeley. Her chapbook, The Misremembered World, was published by the Poetry Society of America. Her book, The Forage House, is published by Red Hen Press. She lives in El Cerrito.
• Maria Hummel is the author of House and Fire, winner of the 2013 APR/Honickman Poetry Prize, and the novel Motherland (Counterpoint, 2014). She lives in San Francisco with her husband and sons.
• Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s most recent book, Apocalyptic Swing, was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Award. Her poems have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and on Garrison Keillor’s Poet’s Almanac. She’s the Senior Poetry Editor for The Los Angeles Review of Books.
• “The lyric storms that leave his lips rattle something loose in you.” John Elliott‘s “stories are desperate to be told, of neon whispers, stolen moonlight and slippery shades of memory.” — Cory Frye, “The Entertainer”

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