What are you working on right now?
All poetry all the time.
What are you working on right now?
All poetry all the time.
Kelechi Ubozoh is a Nigerian-American writer and mental health advocate who blends the reality of trauma, race, and mental health into her writing. Kelechi co-hosts the Bay Area submission-based reading series MoonDrop Productions with Cassandra Dallett. She has performed at the Berkeley Poetry Festival (2019), Oakland’s Beast Crawl (2016-2017) and San Francisco’s Litquake (2018-2019). For the past three Read More
The 5th Annual Poetry in Parks / Ayala Cove on Angel Island Sunday, Sept 15, 2019, 11:30a – 4pm A free, family-friendly arts festival presented by Quiet Lightning, California State Parks, and Kearny Street Workshop Rough schedule for the day: 11:30: Welcome/introductions11:45: Youth readings 12:00: Music by Cindy Z 12:30: Literary mixtape 1:45: Music by Read More
Fernando Meisenhalter Sarah Kobrinsky Laura Vrcek Shizue Seigel Kevin Madrigal Shelley Wong Eddie Jen Matt Carney Claire Perry André Le Mont Wilson Cassandra Dallett Holly McDede Katie Simpson Farah Amezcua Donna Laemmlen March 4 @ The Bar at Hotel Kabuki, 1625 Post St., San FranciscoDrinks + eats @ 6:30pm / Readings at 7:30 Thanks so much to everyone who Read More
On November 5, Quiet Lightning returns for a series of 9 surprises: Peter Bullen Shirley Huey Fernando Meisenhalter Maia Bull Cassandra Dallett Sarah Henry Sean Taylor Paolo Bicchieri Brian Kirven This is a FREE, all-ages show! Monday, November 5, 2018, 7:30pm Cupid’s Span in Rincon Park The Embarcadero & Folsom St, SF 94105 Readings begin Read More
From 2016-17, beginning with Quiet Lightning’s 100th show, Turk & Divis (QL’s founding director Evan Karp and his brother Miles) created a track of original music featuring excerpts of the previous month’s Quiet Lightning, posting them online and starting the next show by playing a rough cut—kind of a last time on QL kind of thing. Read More
Quiet Lightning 116 / sPARKLE & bLINK 92 7:30pm Monday, March 5, 2018 Dogeared Books Castro, 489 Castro St. San Francisco Free + all ages LITERARY MIXTAPE A Alex Peterson » Emma Webster » Natasha Dennerstein » Benjamin Finateri » Brianna Nelson » Joseph Sutton » Lisa Martinovic » Peter Bullen » James Cotter » Eddie Wright » Clyde Always B Michael Palmer » Peggy Schimmelman » Dani Burlison » Abe Becker » Carson Beker » Lenore Weiss » Cassandra Dallett » Jenny Qi » Andrena Read More
Monday, January 1, 2o18, 4pm Wave Organ / 83 Marina Green Drive, San Francisco Free + all ages readings by: Ruth Crossman Andrea Mejri Sean Taylor Nicolette Daskalakis Cassandra Dallett D.S. Black Elise Hunter Jennifer Lewis art by Julia Barzizza sPARKLE & bLINK 91 featuring all selected writing + art free for the first Read More
Quiet Lightning + California State Parks present Poetry in Parks 2017 September 9 @ Candlestick Point SRA, 10am – 5pm [for video + photos, click here] *** FREE + ALL AGES EVENT: Tickets are not required *** San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck kicks off the day with a poem and a curated series Read More
May 1 @ Galería de la Raza / 2857 24th St., San Francisco / 7:30pm Featuring: Baruch Porras-Hernandez » Natasha Dennerstein » Sarah Arantza Amador » Cassandra Dallett » Sage Yockelson » Danielle Bero » Jennifer Barone » Jill Tydor » Claire Calderón » Riss Rosado » Tomas Moniz | Jason Ridler » William Taylor Jr. » Vanessa Read More