In partnership with the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
Poetic TuesdaysThe 2nd Tuesday of the month, May - August
12:30pm–1:30pm The Esplanade at Yerba Buena Gardens 2023 Dates:: May 9 June 13 July 11 August 8 (with MoAD) |
Enjoy line breaks during your lunch break, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians
share their work in the great outdoors.
Our 2023 curator is Karla Brundage.
share their work in the great outdoors.
Our 2023 curator is Karla Brundage.
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Karla Brundage is author of two books of poetry, including Swallowing Watermelons, and co-author of Mulatta–Not so Tragic. Her work as editor and publisher for Pacific Raven Press has included authors in the Bay Area, Hawaii, Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya in the following anthologies: Sisters Across Oceans, Our Spirits Carry Our Voices, and Black Rootedness: 54 Poets from Africa to America. Media credits include Sister Power on ThinkTech Hawaii, C-SPAN, LitSeen, Wanda's Picks and Chills at Will Podcast. Her poetry, essays and short stories can be found in Konch, Literary Magazine, sPARKLE & bLINK, MiGoZine, Black Fire This Time, Essential Truths, and A Gathering of Tribes: Black Lives Matter Issue and her upcoming book Blood Lies: Race Trait(d)or (Finishing Line Press 2024). A graduate of Vassar College, Mills College MFA Program, and San Francisco State Clinical Schools Project, Karla is founder of West Oakland to West Africa Poetry Exchange.
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