California State Parks & Quiet Lightning, in partnership with Friends of China Camp, present Poetry in Parks 2024, a daylong literary arts festival to be held at China Camp Village in San Rafael’s China Camp State Park from 12-5pm on September 14.
Programming will include readings by the Marin County Youth Poet Laureate and YPL Ambassadors, with Mira Sridharan, Clarisse Kim + others TBA; a Better Ancestors set featuring readings by Karla Myn Khine, Alex Feliciano Mejia, Kato Bisase, Zouhair Mussa, Sarah O’Neal and special host Tadeh Kennedy; and a submission-based literary mixtape featuring all forms of writing, curated by Connie Zheng and Evan Karp and featuring readings by Aiya Madarang, Susana Praver-Pérez, Heather Bourbeau, Abigail Bereola, Norma Smith, Catherine Montague, Dani Burlison and Chun Yu 俞淳 in the first set, and after a short break, readings by Katie Wheeler-Dubin, Robert S. Pesich, Meesha Goldberg, Simone Zapata, Terri Glass, Shirley Huey, Charlie Getter, Leslie Beach and Fadl Fakhouri.
The mixtape writing will be published in a book featuring cover art by Kristiana 莊礼恩 Chan, which will be handed out to the first 100 guests. There will also be live music by Gillian Grogan. Tickets, links and more information.
