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Workshop: Writing Hard Enough to Shift Gravity

Thursday, October 8, 2026 - 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm | Cost: FREE
San Francisco Public Library, Main Library, Latino Room (lower level) | 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco

Event Details

K. Shuck, N. Volny

San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck, host of SFPL’s Poem Jam poetry reading series, offers a free one-hour poetry writing intensive workshop, in the hopes of encouraging newer poets and providing strategies to established poets. Please bring a notebook, a pen and your best creative impulses.

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Cost: FREE
Categories: *Top Pick*, Downtown San Francisco, In Person, Lectures & Workshops, Literature
Venue: San Francisco Public Library, Main Library, Latino Room (lower level)
Address: 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco

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