California State Parks & Quiet Lightning, in partnership with Friends of China Camp, present Poetry in Parks 2024, a daylong literary arts festival held at China Camp Village in San Rafael’s China Camp State Park on Sept 14, 2024.

Featuring readings by the Marin County Youth Poet Laureate and YPL Ambassadors Mira Sridharan, Clarisse Kim + Lucy Bakowski; 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 cover art by Kristiana 莊礼恩 Chan.

The mixtape is in two sets of readings – in the first: Aiya Madarang, Susana Praver-Pérez, Heather Bourbeau, Abigail Bereola, Norma Smith, Catherine Montague, Dani Burlison and Chun Yu 俞淳; then, after a short break: Katie Wheeler-Dubin, Robert S. Pesich, Meesha Goldberg, Simone Zapata, Terri Glass, Shirley Huey, Charlie Getter, Leslie Beach and Fadl Fakhouri!

There is also live music by Zoë Winter!

There’s more on this event here, including program information, author bios, and full text of the mixtape.