Out Loud: A Celebration of Queer Poetics

Sponsored by Yerba Buena Gardens Festival

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 Hairston, Syd Staiti, Yeva Johnson, and Evelyn Donji—that have formed and continue to form the Bay Area literary landscape. We seek to tremble your vagus nerve. FREE, $10-15 suggested donation

Host or Publisher Litquake, San Francisco's Literary Festival