INTERNATIONAL GUESTS – The Poets
Hanan Awwad (Palestine)
Bei Dao (China)
Ferruccio Brugnaro (Italy)
Nicole Cage-Florentiny (Martinique)
Francis Combes (France)
Agneta Falk (England/Sweden)
Sinan Gudzevic (Croatia)
Sabah Jasim (Iraq)
Marc Bamuthi Joseph (USA)
Anna Lombardo (Italy)
Miguel Mendoza Barreto (Venezuela)
Alberto Masala (Sardinia)
Sarah Menefee (USA)
Cletus Nelson-Nwadike (Nigeria/Sweden)
Sotirios Pastakas (Greece)
Aharon Shabtai (Israel)
Carmen Yanez (Chile/Spain)

HOST
Jack Hirschman, Current SF Poet Laureate
CO-HOSTS
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Former SF Poet Laureate
devorah major, Former SF Poet Laureate
Janice Mirikitani, Former SF Poet Laureate

Schedule of Events

Thursday, July 26th
6:30-8:30 p.m. – Outdoor Reading in Jack Kerouac Alley
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Former SF Poet Laureate
Poetry Crawl in partnership with Litquake

Friday, July 27th
7:00-9:30 p.m. – Main Reading at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
Carmen Yanez
Bei Dao
Francis Combes
Nicole Cage-Florentiny
Sarah Menefee
Sabah M. Jasim
Anna Lombardo
devorah major
Sotirios Pastakas
Sinan Gudzevic
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Marc Bamuthi Joseph

Saturday, July 28th
Branch Library Day – Readings at branch libraries

2:30-4:30 p.m. – Bernal Heights Branch – Anna Lombardo and Marc Bamuthi Joseph
2:30-4:30 p.m. – Caffé Trieste – Sabah Jasim and Lawrence Ferlinghetti
3:30-5:00 p.m. – Bayview/Anna E. Waden Branch – devorah major and Francis Combes
3:00-5:00 p.m. – Excelsior Branch – Carmen Yanez and Bei Dao
3:00-5:00 p.m. – North Beach Branch – Sarah Menefee and Sinan Gudzevic
3:00-5:00 p.m. – Sunset Branch – Sotirios Pastakas and Nicole Cage-Florentiny

7:00-9:30 p.m.
Main Reading at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre

Hanan Awwad
Miguel Mendoza Barreto
Ferruccio Brugnaro
Cletus Nelson-Nwadike
Janice Mirikitani
Agneta Falk
Aharon Shabtai
Maram Al Masri
Alberto Masala
Jack Hirschman

Sunday, July 29th
North Beach Poetry Crawl – Locations throughout North Beach
12:30-1:30 p.m. – Beat Museum – Cletus Nelson-Nwadike and Agneta Falk
2:00-3:30 p.m. – Purple Onion – Miguel Mendoza Barreto and Janice Mirikitani
4:00-5:30 p.m. – Caffé Trieste – Hanan Awwad and Ferruccio Brugnaro
6:00-7:30 p.m. – City Lights – Aharon Shabtai and Maram Al-Masri
8:00-9:30 p.m. – Live Worms Gallery – Alberto Masala and Jack Hirschman