Avalon Park Press at LitCrawl SF 2026!
APP will be hosting an poetry event at The Sycamore in the Castro District on October 24, 2026 at 8 pm as part of LitCrawl SF.
One of the most anticipated literary nights of the year, San Francisco's Lit Crawl is a massive, one-night literary pub crawl through San Francisco's Mission District that caps off our annual Litquake Festival. Lit Crawl SF brings together 250+ authors and close to 5,000 fans for the world’s largest free pop-up literary event.
Making Mythos in the Mundane: Creating a Literary Universe via Poetry
Featured Poets:
Ingrid Keir is a poet and the founder/editor of the Feather Press, an independent literary press based in the Bay Area. She is the co-founder of the WordParty, a long running San Francisco poetry and jazz series. Her poetry collections include Toward the Light (2007) and The Choreography of Nests (2016), Love Letters to the Cosmos (2026), and she is the editor of Tender Hearts Club, Volume One (2026), an anthology of love poetry.
Richard Loranger is a multi-genre writer, musician, performer, and text artist. They’re the author of Breaking Crown, a a crown of resistance sonnets released by Collapse Press. They’ve penned six full-length books of poetry and flash prose including Mammal (Roof Books, 2023), Unit of Agency (Collapse Press, 2021) Windows (Zeitgeist Press, 2016) and Poems for Teeth (We Press, 2005).
Sarah Kruse is a San Francisco based poet and Associate Editor of Barrow Street Press. Her work has appeared in The Journal, The San Franciscan, High Country New, and Prairie Schooner among others. She works at California College of Arts and can be found swimming in the bay if the sun is out.
Jason Bayani is the author of Everyone I Love, Alive (Omnidawn Publishing, 2025), Locus (Omnidawn Publishing, 2019) and Amulet (Write Bloody Publishing, 2013). He’s an MFA graduate from Saint Mary’s College and is the co-director of Kearny Street Workshop, the oldest multi-disciplinary Asian Pacific American arts organization in the country. He debuted his solo theater show “Locus of Control” in 2016.
Host:
Die Lunte
