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Welcome to Litquake, San Francisco’s literary festival, now in our 17th year. Festival dates are October 7-15, 2016. Events are all-ages unless noted otherwise. Book sales are offered when and where appropriate. Events without ticket reservations are first-come first served. Click the phone icon to the right below, to download our new mobile app version!

Saturday, October 8 • 12:45pm - 1:45pm
OTRS - Anon Was a Woman: A Celebration of Female Poets

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Off the Richter Scale Series:

Five award-winning female poets share from their recent collections: Teow Goh, Emilia Phillips, Margaret Ross, Solmaz Sharif, and Tess Taylor. FREE

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”—Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own 

Complimentary coffee provided by Nomadic Ground.

Participants
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Teow Lim Goh

Teow Lim Goh is the author of Islanders (Conundrum Press, 2016), a volume of poems on the history of the Angel Island Immigration Station. She lives in Denver.
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Margaret Ross

Margaret Ross is the author of A Timeshare, selected by Timothy Donnelly for the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, Fence, The New Republic and The New Yorker and have been recognized by scholarships and fellowships from the Fulbright Program... Read More →
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Solmaz Sharif

Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared in The New Republic, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, jubilat, Gulf Coast, Boston... Read More →
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Tess Taylor

Poet
A widely published critic, poet and essayist, and on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered,  Tess Taylor’s five books of poems blend the lyric and the reportorial in unexpected ways, leading to what Nate Dixon of the Georgia Review recently hailed as “rich investigative... Read More →


Saturday October 8, 2016 12:45pm - 1:45pm PDT
Mechanics' Institute Library