Name: Litquake Out Loud (Day Two)
Start: 2024-10-20T12:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-10-20T16:45:00-07:00
Location: Yerba Buena Gardens Festival

Sponsored by Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
Poetry + performances + music curated by local BIPOC/LGBTQ+ writers run ALL DAY alongside Litquake Small Press Book Fair w/ over a dozen local presses + small businesses. Limited seating provided. BYO blankets, food, bev, etc.
FREE, $10-15 suggested donation
Music: Roziht Eve
Program Manager: Giovanna Lomanto
12pm-1:15pm
Out Loud: A Celebration of Queer Poetics
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—that have formed and continue to form the Bay Area literary landscape. We seek to tremble your vagus nerve.
1:45pm-3pm
Out Loud: Finding Home
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.
3:30pm-4:45pm
Out Loud: Nor Do I Wish to Speak: A Storytelling and Poetry Picnic
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.