Name: Poetry World Series: Litquake Edition
Start: 2024-10-19T19:00:00-0700
End: 2024-10-19T21:00:00-0700

Saturday October 19, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT

Co-presented with 48 Hills

Two teams of award-winning poets, including Armen Davoudian, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Cindy Ok, Joseph Rios, Mimi Tempestt, and Dashaun Washington, take turns batting at topics pitched to them by the audience. Fastballs, curveballs, knuckleballs: these poets won’t know what’s coming next! Hilarity and brilliance both guaranteed. Daniel Handler returns as emcee, and eminently qualified umpires Andrew Sean Greer and Brynn Saito will score each batter’s reading. The winning team takes the series title. Don’t forget to bring a topic to stump the poets with! Book sales/signing follow the reading. Doors at 6:30PM. $17 adv / $20 door

Book sales for this event coordinated by Dog Eared Books.

Moderators

Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer is the author of seven works of fiction, including the bestsellers The Confessions of Max Tivoli and Less. He is the recipient of a NEA grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He alternates living in both San Francisco and Italy... Read More →

Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler is the author of seven novels, including Why We Broke Up, All The Dirty Parts, and Bottle Grove, and most recently a memoir, And Then? And Then? What Else?. As Lemony Snicket, he is the author of far too many books for children, including Poison for Breakfast, the... Read More →

Brynn Saito

Brynn Saito is the author of three collections of poetry and two chapbooks. She is the recipient of the Benjamin Saltman Award and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award, the Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award, and the Paterson Poetry Prize. Saito’s writing has appeared... Read More →

Authors and Participants

Armen Davoudian

Armen Davoudian is the author of the poetry collection The Palace of Forty Pillars and the translator, from Persian, of Hopscotch by Fatemeh Shams. He grew up in Isfahan, Iran, and is a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University.

Luiza Flynn-Goodlett

Luiza Flynn-Goodlett is the author of Mud In Our Mouths (forthcoming from Northwestern University Press) and Look Alive (winner of the 2019 Cowles Poetry Book Prize from Southeast Missouri State University Press), along with numerous chapbooks, most recently Familiar (Madhouse Press... Read More →

Cindy Ok

Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward from the Yale Series of Younger Poets, the translator of The Hell of That Star forthcoming from the Wesleyan Poetry Series, and an assistant professor at UC Davis.

Joseph Rios

Joseph Rios is the poet laureate of Fresno and a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Rios is the author of Shadowboxing: Poems & Impersonations.

Mimi Tempestt

Mimi Tempestt (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and daughter of California. She has a MA in Literature from Mills College, and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Creative/Critical PhD in Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Her first book, the monumental misrememberings... Read More →

Dāshaun Washington

Dāshaun Washington is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. His work has been supported by Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Lighthouse Works, Ucross Foundation, The Watering Hole, and beyond. His poems have appeared in New England Review, Poetry... Read More →

Saturday October 19, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room

Poetry

Age Limit 21+

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