Name: Out Loud: A Celebration of Queer Poetics
Start: 2024-10-20T12:00:00-0700
End: 2024-10-20T13:15:00-0700

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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

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