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Grace Notes: Litquake at Grace Cathedral
October 23, 2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Take a midweek pause, find stillness, and bask in the words of four phenomenal poets, whose verses will soar to the vaulted ceiling in magnificent Grace Cathedral. A. Van Jordan (When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again), Dorianne Laux (Life on Earth), Ruben Quesada (Brutal Companion), and Alice Templeton (The Infinite Field) will read work from their latest collections, in one of Litquake’s most beloved annual events, curated by D.A. Powell and Preeti Vangani.
Books available for sale onsite. Support your local authors and booksellers!
FREE, $10-15 suggested donation
Register Here
About Litquake
Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival, is celebrating 25 years! Their 2024 Festival runs from 10/10 – 10/26 with 140+ events taking place all over the Bay Area and featuring 500+ authors and performers. The full schedule is available at litquake.org.
About the Moderators
D.A. Powell is the author of five collections, including Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. His honors include the Kingsley Tufts Prize in Poetry, the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America…
Preeti Vangani is a poet and writer from Mumbai, living in San Francisco. She is the author of the poetry book Mother Tongue Apologize, winner of the RL India Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Poem-a-Day, Threepenny Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review among…
Authors and Participants
A. Van Jordan is the author of five collections of poetry: Rise, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award; M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, which was listed as one the Best Books of 2005 by The London Times; Quantum Lyrics; and The Cineaste. Jordan has been awarded a Whiting Writers Award…
Dorianne Laux’s sixth collection, Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems was named a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her fifth collection, The Book of Men, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon, won The Oregon Book…
Ruben Quesada’s latest poetry collection, Brutal Companion, winner of the Barrow Street Press Editors Prize, was published in October 2024. He edited the anthology Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry, which won an Independent Publisher Book Award in 2023. Quesada’s work…
Alice Templeton’s poetry collection The Infinite Field was published in April 2024. Her chapbook Archaeology won the 2008 New Women’s Voices Prize in Poetry from Finishing Line Press, and her poems have appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Bellingham Review, Calyx, Nimrod, Poetry…
Event Details
The cathedral will open at 7 pm. Enter the cathedral through the door at the top of the Great Steps. The accessible entrance is via the glass doors on Taylor Street, left of the garage entrance. Turn left down the hallway and follow it to the elevator.
Give to Grace
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Love engaging dialogue? We offer a special cultural membership program, GraceArts, focused exclusively on the arts and well-being. GraceArts allows a wider community to belong to and support Grace, with discounts and benefits on a robust schedule of events. Learn more and join!
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Grace Notes: Litquake at Grace Cathedral
Take a midweek pause, find stillness, and bask in the words of four phenomenal poets, whose verses will soar to the vaulted ceiling in magnificent Grace Cathedral. A. Van Jordan (When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again), Dorianne Laux (Life on Earth), Ruben Quesada (Brutal Companion), and Alice Templeton (The Infinite Field) will read work from their latest collections, in one of Litquake’s most beloved annual events, curated by D.A. Powell and Preeti Vangani.
Books available for sale onsite. Support your local authors and booksellers!
FREE, $10-15 suggested donation
Register Here
About Litquake
Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival, is celebrating 25 years! Their 2024 Festival runs from 10/10 – 10/26 with 140+ events taking place all over the Bay Area and featuring 500+ authors and performers. The full schedule is available at litquake.org.
About the Moderators
D.A. Powell is the author of five collections, including Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. His honors include the Kingsley Tufts Prize in Poetry, the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America…
Preeti Vangani is a poet and writer from Mumbai, living in San Francisco. She is the author of the poetry book Mother Tongue Apologize, winner of the RL India Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Poem-a-Day, Threepenny Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review among…
Authors and Participants
A. Van Jordan is the author of five collections of poetry: Rise, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award; M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, which was listed as one the Best Books of 2005 by The London Times; Quantum Lyrics; and The Cineaste. Jordan has been awarded a Whiting Writers Award…
Dorianne Laux’s sixth collection, Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems was named a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her fifth collection, The Book of Men, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon, won The Oregon Book…
Ruben Quesada’s latest poetry collection, Brutal Companion, winner of the Barrow Street Press Editors Prize, was published in October 2024. He edited the anthology Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry, which won an Independent Publisher Book Award in 2023. Quesada’s work…
Alice Templeton’s poetry collection The Infinite Field was published in April 2024. Her chapbook Archaeology won the 2008 New Women’s Voices Prize in Poetry from Finishing Line Press, and her poems have appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Bellingham Review, Calyx, Nimrod, Poetry…
Event Details
The cathedral will open at 7 pm. Enter the cathedral through the door at the top of the Great Steps. The accessible entrance is via the glass doors on Taylor Street, left of the garage entrance. Turn left down the hallway and follow it to the elevator.
Give to Grace
You can help us bring the arts to life at Grace with a gift today to The Forum. Click here to give.
Become a GraceArts Member
Love engaging dialogue? We offer a special cultural membership program, GraceArts, focused exclusively on the arts and well-being. GraceArts allows a wider community to belong to and support Grace, with discounts and benefits on a robust schedule of events. Learn more and join!
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Take a midweek pause, find stillness, and bask in the words of four phenomenal poets, whose verses will soar to the vaulted ceiling in magnificent Grace Cathedral. A. Van Jordan (When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again), Dorianne Laux (Life on Earth), Ruben Quesada (Brutal Companion), and Alice Templeton (The Infinite Field) will read work from their latest collections, in one of Litquake’s most beloved annual events, curated by D.A. Powell and Preeti Vangani.
Books available for sale onsite. Support your local authors and booksellers!
FREE, $10-15 suggested donation
Register Here
About Litquake
Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival, is celebrating 25 years! Their 2024 Festival runs from 10/10 – 10/26 with 140+ events taking place all over the Bay Area and featuring 500+ authors and performers. The full schedule is available at litquake.org.
About the Moderators
D.A. Powell is the author of five collections, including Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. His honors include the Kingsley Tufts Prize in Poetry, the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America…
Preeti Vangani is a poet and writer from Mumbai, living in San Francisco. She is the author of the poetry book Mother Tongue Apologize, winner of the RL India Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Poem-a-Day, Threepenny Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review among…
Authors and Participants
A. Van Jordan is the author of five collections of poetry: Rise, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award; M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, which was listed as one the Best Books of 2005 by The London Times; Quantum Lyrics; and The Cineaste. Jordan has been awarded a Whiting Writers Award…
Dorianne Laux’s sixth collection, Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems was named a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her fifth collection, The Book of Men, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon, won The Oregon Book…
Ruben Quesada’s latest poetry collection, Brutal Companion, winner of the Barrow Street Press Editors Prize, was published in October 2024. He edited the anthology Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry, which won an Independent Publisher Book Award in 2023. Quesada’s work…
Alice Templeton’s poetry collection The Infinite Field was published in April 2024. Her chapbook Archaeology won the 2008 New Women’s Voices Prize in Poetry from Finishing Line Press, and her poems have appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Bellingham Review, Calyx, Nimrod, Poetry…
Event Details
The cathedral will open at 7 pm. Enter the cathedral through the door at the top of the Great Steps. The accessible entrance is via the glass doors on Taylor Street, left of the garage entrance. Turn left down the hallway and follow it to the elevator.
Give to Grace
You can help us bring the arts to life at Grace with a gift today to The Forum. Click here to give.
Become a GraceArts Member
Love engaging dialogue? We offer a special cultural membership program, GraceArts, focused exclusively on the arts and well-being. GraceArts allows a wider community to belong to and support Grace, with discounts and benefits on a robust schedule of events. Learn more and join!
Wednesday
April 30
2:00PM
-
3:00PM
Thursday
May 1
8:30AM
-
9:30AM
Saturday
May 3
9:00AM
-
10:00AM
Saturday
May 3
11:00AM
-
2:00PM
Sunday
May 4
1:00PM
-
2:00PM
Take a midweek pause, find stillness, and bask in the words of four phenomenal poets, whose verses will soar to the vaulted ceiling in magnificent Grace Cathedral. A. Van Jordan (When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again), Dorianne Laux (Life on Earth), Ruben Quesada (Brutal Companion), and Alice Templeton (The Infinite Field) will read work from their latest collections, in one of Litquake’s most beloved annual events, curated by D.A. Powell and Preeti Vangani.
Books available for sale onsite. Support your local authors and booksellers!
FREE, $10-15 suggested donation
Register Here
About Litquake
Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival, is celebrating 25 years! Their 2024 Festival runs from 10/10 – 10/26 with 140+ events taking place all over the Bay Area and featuring 500+ authors and performers. The full schedule is available at litquake.org.
About the Moderators
D.A. Powell is the author of five collections, including Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. His honors include the Kingsley Tufts Prize in Poetry, the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America…
Preeti Vangani is a poet and writer from Mumbai, living in San Francisco. She is the author of the poetry book Mother Tongue Apologize, winner of the RL India Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Poem-a-Day, Threepenny Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review among…
Authors and Participants
A. Van Jordan is the author of five collections of poetry: Rise, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award; M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, which was listed as one the Best Books of 2005 by The London Times; Quantum Lyrics; and The Cineaste. Jordan has been awarded a Whiting Writers Award…
Dorianne Laux’s sixth collection, Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems was named a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her fifth collection, The Book of Men, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon, won The Oregon Book…
Ruben Quesada’s latest poetry collection, Brutal Companion, winner of the Barrow Street Press Editors Prize, was published in October 2024. He edited the anthology Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry, which won an Independent Publisher Book Award in 2023. Quesada’s work…
Alice Templeton’s poetry collection The Infinite Field was published in April 2024. Her chapbook Archaeology won the 2008 New Women’s Voices Prize in Poetry from Finishing Line Press, and her poems have appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Bellingham Review, Calyx, Nimrod, Poetry…
Event Details
The cathedral will open at 7 pm. Enter the cathedral through the door at the top of the Great Steps. The accessible entrance is via the glass doors on Taylor Street, left of the garage entrance. Turn left down the hallway and follow it to the elevator.
Give to Grace
You can help us bring the arts to life at Grace with a gift today to The Forum. Click here to give.
Become a GraceArts Member
Love engaging dialogue? We offer a special cultural membership program, GraceArts, focused exclusively on the arts and well-being. GraceArts allows a wider community to belong to and support Grace, with discounts and benefits on a robust schedule of events. Learn more and join!
Wednesday
April 30
2:00PM
-
3:00PM
Thursday
May 1
8:30AM
-
9:30AM
Saturday
May 3
9:00AM
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10:00AM
Saturday
May 3
11:00AM
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2:00PM
Sunday
May 4
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2:00PM
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