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Wednesday October 23, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT

Take a midweek pause, find stillness, and bask in the words of four phenomenal poets, whose verses will soar to the vaulted ceiling in magnificent Grace Cathedral. A. Van Jordan (When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again), Dorianne Laux (Life on Earth), Ruben Quesada (Brutal Companion), and Alice Templeton (The Infinite Field) will read work from their latest collections, in one of Litquake’s most beloved annual events, curated by D.A. Powell and Preeti Vangani. FREE, $10-15 suggested donation
Book sales for this event coordinated by Green Apple Books.
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D.A. Powell

D. A. Powell is the author of five collections, including Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. His honors include the Kingsley Tufts Prize in Poetry, the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America... Read More →
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Preeti Vangani

Preeti Vangani is a poet and writer from Mumbai, living in San Francisco. She is the author of the poetry book Mother Tongue Apologize, winner of the RL India Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Poem-a-Day, Threepenny Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review among... Read More →
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A. Van Jordan

A. Van Jordan is the author of five collections of poetry: Rise, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award; M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, which was listed as one the Best Books of 2005 by The London Times; Quantum Lyrics; and The Cineaste. Jordan has been awarded a Whiting Writers Award... Read More →
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Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux’s sixth collection, Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems was named a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her fifth collection, The Book of Men, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon, won The Oregon Book... Read More →
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Ruben Quesada

Ruben Quesada’s latest poetry collection, Brutal Companion, winner of the Barrow Street Press Editors  Prize, was published in October 2024. He edited the anthology Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry, which won an Independent Publisher Book Award in 2023. Quesada’s work... Read More →
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Alice Templeton

Alice Templeton’s poetry collection The Infinite Field was published in April 2024. Her chapbook Archaeology won the 2008 New Women’s Voices Prize in Poetry from Finishing Line Press, and her poems have appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Bellingham Review, Calyx, Nimrod, Poetry... Read More →
Wednesday October 23, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Grace Cathedral (1100 California St, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA)

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