Grace Notes
Wed, Apr 23
|Grace Cathedral
Litquake celebrates National Poetry Month with Armen Davoudian, Rachel Richardson, Maw Shein Win, and Matthew Zapruder
Time & Location
Apr 23, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Grace Cathedral, 1100 California St, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA
About The Event
Celebrate National Poetry Month with Litquake, the largest independent literary festival on the West Coast. Returning for our 10th year to this gloriously Gothic space, enjoy a special evening of exalted verse with poetry in the pews from a distinguished roster of poets. Curated and hosted by D.A. Powell and Preeti Vangani, four celebrated poets will share their work: Armen Davoudian, Rachel Richardson, Maw Shein Win, and Matthew Zapruder. A book sale and signing will follow the readings. Book sales provided by Green Apple Books.
FREE, $5-10 suggested donation.
About the Poets
Armen Davoudian is the author of The Palace of Forty Pillars (Tin House), long-listed for the National Book Critics' Circle Award in Poetry, and the translator, from Persian, of Hopscotch by Fatemeh Shams. He grew up in Isfahan, Iran, and is a PhD Candidate in English at Stanford University.
Rachel Richardson is the author of Smother (Norton, 2025)…