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Sunday, October 20
 

12:00pm PDT

Out Loud: A Celebration of Queer Poetics
Sunday October 20, 2024 12:00pm - 1:15pm PDT
Yerba Buena Gardens
Sponsored by Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
Co-presented with 48 Hills

A space in motion that embraces love and tenderness to celebrate queer poetics and recognizes the miraculousness of the queer BIPOCX tongue. From the margins of hxstory, we have continuously broken open lung, redefining the poem and her purpose over and over again, making your larynx in our image. We are thousands upon thousands years old. We are the queer at the tip of your tongue, sculpting the language of each other's bodies. This year, the Pocho Chicanx Poetxs Lourdes Figueroa and Baruch Porras Hernandez team up to bring you a kaleidoscope of voices—MK Chavez, Hilary Cruz Mejia, Jessica Ke'mani, Syd Staiti, Yeva Johnson, and Evelyn Donaji & Camellia Boutros—that have formed and continue to form the Bay Area literary landscape. We seek to tremble your vagus nerve. FREE, $10-15 suggested donation
Authors and Participants
avatar for MK Chavez

MK Chavez

MK Chavez is an art monster, siguanaba, writer, and educator. Chavez’s writing explores mixed-race identity, social justice, environmental resilience, horror cinema, magic, ritual, and the creative process. Chavez’s work has been recognized with the Pen Josephine Miles Award... Read More →
avatar for Jessica Ke’mani

Jessica Ke’mani

Jessica Ke’mani (pronounced Keh-Mani)  is a queer Oakland-born poet. Ke’mani self identifies as a reunified adoptee, meaning they are back in connection with their birth family. Ke’mani is the author of the new poetry chapbook, Power of Our Wombs, released by Nomadic Press... Read More →
avatar for Lourdes Figueroa

Lourdes Figueroa

Lourdes Figueroa is a queer Chicanx oral poet and an award winning poetry filmmaker whose work is a dialogue of her lived experience when her family worked in el azadón—tilling of the soil under the blistering sun. She is the author of the chapbooks yolotl, Ruidos=Learn Speak, and... Read More →
avatar for Hilary Cruz Mejía

Hilary Cruz Mejía

Hilary Cruz Mejía is a poeta and callejera scholar from the coastal waters of Guatemala. Her work is the lineage of her nightmares entangled in the landscapes of fear and resistance. You can find some of their work in the digital mundo as well as the wind mundo. Outside of writing... Read More →
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Baruch Porras Hernandez

Baruch Porras Hernandez has been called a Flan come to life, and is a writer-stand up comedian originally from Toluca, Mexico who came here to steal all your jobs and make out with all of the hot dads. He is the author of Lovers of the Deep Fried Circle, I Miss You Delicate, Sluts... Read More →
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Syd Staiti

Syd Staiti is director of Small Press Traffic since 2019. Staiti's books include The Undying Present (Krupskaya, 2015) and Seldom Approaches (The Elephants, 2023). Staiti is a member of Light Field, a collective that presents an annual film festival of recent and historical moving... Read More →
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Yeva Johnson

Yeva Johnson is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, writer, and musician whose work appears or is forthcoming in Bellingham Review, Obsidian, sin cesar, Sinister Wisdom, Yemassee, and elsewhere.  Johnson explores interlocking caste systems and possibilities for human co-existence... Read More →
avatar for Evelyn Donají & Camellia Boutros

Evelyn Donají & Camellia Boutros

Evelyn Donají and Camellia Boutros, folk musicians in the diasporic musical traditions of Veracruz and Palestine respectively, come together to offer a modern and Mission-based interpretation of Son Jarocho. In performing with the Arabic oud and the jarana Jarocha, the duo highlight... Read More →
Sunday October 20, 2024 12:00pm - 1:15pm PDT
Yerba Buena Gardens
  Litquake Out Loud

1:45pm PDT

Out Loud: Finding Home
Sunday October 20, 2024 1:45pm - 3:00pm PDT
Yerba Buena Gardens
Sponsored by Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
Co-presented with 48 Hills

Finding Home follows the journeys of authors who have fought for their sense of belonging, safety, and nourishment by overcoming adversity, reframing their identity, and building community. These poets will be sharing pieces that celebrate the full breadth of the human experience and what "home" means to them. Rhea Joseph presents Lorrie Chang, Papi Grande, Serena Chan, and Denise Masiel. FREE, $10-15 suggested donation
Authors and Participants
avatar for Serena Chan

Serena Chan

A facilitator and experience designer by day, Serena channels her cancer moon for her big feels and poetry. You can often find her daydreaming in a cafe, playing in the ocean, or trail running with her pup.
avatar for Denise Masiel

Denise Masiel

Denise Masiel is a Caribbean-American essayist and poet from Texas. She is a storyteller dedicated to the art of capturing feelings of warmth, passion, and visceral emotions in her work. Her poetry has been published in The Ana and Mujer Manifesto, and she is an active spoken word... Read More →
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Papi Grande

Pap1Grand3 is a multidisciplinary performance artist from Oakland California. He is known for his spectacular stage presence as well as exploring themes of evolution, love and dedication. Grande has been striding across the community, many stages, more than a few faces. His motto... Read More →
avatar for Lorrie Chang

Lorrie Chang

Lorrie Chang is a truth seeker/speller, spoken word poet, urban planner, professional curiosity pimp (researcher), untamed dancer, and spiritual wanderer. She worked nationally to grow communities with social and cultural fabric as the foundation (“Creative Placeknowing/Placemaking... Read More →
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Rhea Joseph

Rhea Joseph is a poet, curator, and event producer who comes from a family of artists and entrepreneurs. She lives in San Francisco, but writes from a global perspective, intertwining her experience of growing up in India and blooming in Boston. Joseph finds power through community... Read More →
Sunday October 20, 2024 1:45pm - 3:00pm PDT
Yerba Buena Gardens
  Litquake Out Loud

3:30pm PDT

Out Loud: Nor Do I Wish to Speak: A Storytelling and Poetry Picnic
Sunday October 20, 2024 3:30pm - 4:45pm PDT
Yerba Buena Gardens
Sponsored by Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
Co-presented with 48 Hills

Join a conversation among poets in the lineage of June Jordan's Poetry for the People who write and speak into liberation struggles from America to Palestine. Noor Brody presents Dina Omar, Tehmina Khan, and more. FREE, $10-15 suggested donation
Authors and Participants
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Noor Khashe Brody

Noor Khashe Brody has always lived in the California East Bay. They are a graduate of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People. Alongside two friends, they co-founded Tritone, a monthly reading series in Oakland.
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Tehmina Khan

Tehmina Khan is a daughter of Indian immigrant scientists who has spent her adult life writing, teaching, resisting, and mothering. She has taught science to preschoolers, citizenship to octogenarians, and poetry translation to elementary school students; she currently teaches College... Read More →
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Dina Omar

Dina Omar is a lecturer at UC Berkeley who teaches Palestinian poetry. She is a doctoral candidate at Yale University in Anthropology and Gender and Women’s studies. While studying for her Masters degree at Columbia University, Dina was part of the ad hoc organizing committee that... Read More →
Sunday October 20, 2024 3:30pm - 4:45pm PDT
Yerba Buena Gardens
  Litquake Out Loud
 
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