Lift Every Voice: A Festival Finale in Verse

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Fri Oct 23 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

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First Presbyterian Church of Oakland | Oakland, CA

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Litquake invites you in alongside award-winning poets to bear witness to the beauty and resiliency of our words and community.
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Coming to us from Chicago, Phillip B. Williams brings us his newest collection Lift Every Voice, a staggering tribute to personal and collective evolutions, a vital chorus that answers only to God, community, and the empowered self. What better way to ground us on the penultimate night of Litquake 2026? Litquake invites you in alongside poets Fatimah Asghar, Stephanie Horvath, D.A. Powell, D.M. Spratley, and Phillip B. Williams to bear witness to the beauty and resiliency of our words and community. Hosted by Litquake’s Artistic Director Graham Todd. Doors at 6:30pm.

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First Presbyterian Church of Oakland, 2619 Broadway, Oakland, United States

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