About this Event
Spring signifies hope for renewal, new love, romance, and fresh beginnings. As the days get longer and warmer, the world around us comes back to life with blooming flowers, chirping birds, and buzzing bees. It's a season that reminds us that change is possible and there is always room for growth. Culturally, the Birds and the Bees serve as symbols of Spring as well as a metaphoric euphemism to relay the human rite of passage, sexual awakening, fertility, birth and rebirth.
In conjunction with and support for , Arc Gallery is pleased to host an evening of poetry featuring three outstanding Bay Area based poets offering a spoken word presentation to celebrate these vernal themes.
*Doors open at 7pm.
*Limited seating will be provided.
*Light refreshments will be served.
Virginia Ramos is a Spanish and American poet, and scholar. She earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford University and is the former Managing Editor of Mantis, A Journal of Poetry, Criticism and Translation. Her essays, poems and reviews have appeared in several publications in the US and Europe including Contemporary Developments in Emergent Narratives by Santiago de Compostela University Press, Americanized Spanish Culture: Stories and Storytellers from Dislocated Empires by Routledge, 80 mph: Bilingual Anthology by Grady Miller Books, Theory Now Journal in 2023 and Comparative Woman Journal in 2024. Her first book length collection ARC was recently published in October 2024 by Grady Miller Books and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Four Quartets Award 2025 by the Poetry Society of America. She teaches and lives in San Francisco.
Peter Kline is the author of two poetry collections, Mirrorforms (Parlor Press) and Deviants (SFASU Press). A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has also received residency fellowships from the Hemingway House, Amy Clampitt House, and James Merrill House, and has won the Morton Marr Prize from Southwest Review, the River Styx International Poetry Prize, and The Columbia Review Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, and many other journals, as well as the Best New Poets series, the Verse Daily website, the Random House anthology of metrical poetry, Measure for Measure, and the Persea anthology of self-portrait poems, More Truly and More Strange. Since 2012 he has directed the San Francisco literary reading series Bazaar Writers Salon. He teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and Stanford University, and can be found online at www.peterklinepoetry.com.
Cintia Santana’s debut poetry collection, The Disordered Alphabet (Four Way
Books, 2023) received the Northern California Book Award for Poetry. She teaches
translation, poetry, and fiction workshops in Spanish and English at Stanford University. Learn more about her work at: www.cintiasantana.com
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Arc Studios & Gallery, 1246 Folsom St, San Francisco, United States
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