The Tortured Poets: An Ode to Taylor Swift

Name: The Tortured Poets: An Ode to Taylor Swift
Start: 2025-10-21T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-21T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Make-Out Room

Schedule

Tue Oct 21 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Make-Out Room | San Francisco, CA

Love her work or loathe it, it feels impossible to ignore the impact of Taylor Swift's lyrics and music on our zeitgeist—not even poets are
About this Event

Two teams of award-winning poets, including Jason Bayani, Gillian Conoley, Keith Ekiss, Lourdes Figueroa, MJ Jones, and Mia Ayumi Malhotra take turns batting at topics pitched to them by the audience. Fastballs, curveballs, knuckleballs: these poets won’t know what’s coming next! Hilarity and brilliance both guaranteed. Daniel Handler will be tonight’s emcee, and eminently qualified umpires—Aracelis Girmay and D.A. Powell—will score each batter’s reading. The winning team takes the series title. Don’t forget to bring a topic to stump the poets with! Book sales/signing follow the final inning. Doors at 6:30pm. $15 adv / $20 door

Book sales for this event coordinated by Dog Eared Books