Our summer series at the Conservatory of Flowers, The Greenhouse Effect, returns on Monday, August 6th! Join us for the first of three shows in this second annual wonderfest; if you missed last year, check out some photos and videos here and here. We are proud (very proud) and excited (so excited) to present to you Read More
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community wizard + beast crawl: random play free saturday in oakland
Thanks everyone who came out to Galería de la Raza last night; that was some pure Side A/Side B magic, right!? Proud of Chris Cole and Josey Lee for putting together such an emotionally resonant yet experimentally bold show, and really, truly proud that we are able to present a place for such beautiful people to Read More
galería de la raza + beast crawl
We are thrilled to announce the lineup for our July 2nd show at Galería de la Raza: Zack Haber Karen Penley Mariama Lockington Aaron DiFranco Valerie Chavez Zoe Brezsny Matthew Rogers Max Tomlinson Joe Case Maureen Blennerhassett Chris Carosi Brian S. Hart Cybele Zufolo Samantha Rubenstein Casey McAlduff This show was curated by Chris Cole Read More
en la galería!
Humongous gratitude to Jimmy Siegel and Kelly Edwards for having Quiet Lightning at the William Westerfeld House, and to everyone who spent the night with us we hope you are as happy with the way things went as we are. We should do that again sometime, right? Let’s meet at Galería de la Raza on Monday, Read More
the legacy of the william westerfeld mansion welcomes quiet lightning’s neighborhood heroes
It’s true: on Friday, June 8th Quiet Lightning will join the rich cultural legacy of the William Westerfeld Mansion* with the fifth installment of our Neighborhood Heroes series: Isaac Fitzgerald: Editor does not begin to do justice to Fitzgerald’s role in the SF-based literary culture website/revolution The Rumpus; without Isaac there would be no Rumpus, which has lately received Read More
thanks everyone! see you on june 8th
Big thanks to everyone who came out to Alley Cat Books last night! What a great venue, right? Thanks to all of our volunteers: Josey Duncan, SB Stokes, Justin Hannigan, Jessica Moll, Nick Mwaluko, Sarah Maria Griffin and Ceri Bevan; to our sponsor, Lagunitas; and of course to all of our wonderful readers. I think Read More
it’s not hip anymore! come for the writing.
Dear everyone: Just wanted to inform you that we are no longer a hip organization. Please disregard all notions that Quiet Lightning is a new, fresh idea; something it might be good to be a part of; a place where people are ‘seen’ or ‘looked for’. That is all. Alley Cat Books | 3036 24th Read More
see you in the alley, cat
After our mystical triumph in the boxcar we’re headed to the new Alley Cat Books for our show on Monday, May 7th and truly hope you can join us. This is our second time in a bookstore (here to revisit or scope out the first) and we have an entirely different (and perhaps our most Read More
ace in the boxcar
For the first time, I didn’t vote on the submissions. I didn’t introduce the show. Thanks to Litseen‘s assistant, Evelyn Manangan-Price, I didn’t have to film, either [click here to watch]. It was a sweet cherry on the mondae that I got to perform one of my poems, too, and one that really forced the issue Read More
monday night @ boxcar
this month’s artist bethany rose @ so you think you can paint bring your attitudes 505 Natoma Between 6th and 7th, Mission + Howard $5 suggested | no humans turned away 7 doors, 7:30 show excited, too? watch this or this.