KSW Presents Sarah Ghazal Ali and Soham Patel
Friday , January 26th
7-9pm
1246 Folsom St. SF, CA
$10 (General Admission), $25 (Supporter Level | reserved seats, drink ticket)
Purchase tickets at https://kswpresents22.eventbrite.com (if price is barrier, please contact info@kearnystreet.org to inquire about sponsored tickets)
KSW Presents is back and we’re bringing together Sarah Ghazal Ali and Soham Patel. We’re celebrating the newest collections from both of these stunning poets Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024) and all one in the end—/water (Delete, 2023).
This reading will also feature the return of our community mic. This months readers are: Candy Shue, Christine Hsu, Yibing Du, saahil m, Kristin Avenis, and Angel Bista!
Eastwind Books is once again our official bookseller and will be selling copies of our authors’ books at the venue.
Featured Artists
Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024), Sarah Ghazal Ali
"Ali's is one of the most sure-footed debuts I've had the pleasure to encounter in many years. Wrought with precision, control, and an astute humility before the wondrous, the profound and profane, these poems feel crafted from the sum total of history, then realized at the crest of the poet's matrix of experiences. A truly fearless and tender gem of a collection." —Ocean Vuong
all one in the end—/water (Delete, 2023), Soham Patel
all one in the end—/water, Soham Patel’s lyrical paean to the ecopoetics of Brenda Iijima et al., meditates on the ends of the world, past and future, and, more apocalyptically, the end of the planet: “here I lament the end of the earth at the price of the state on a state paid product a very nice machine the university provides.” Raising her hand to her lips “to make the calling louder,” Patel cannot forget, as a matter of ethics, “every wing [she is] under as each gives [her] over.” Gliding from stanzaic lyrics to prosaic ruminations, each punctuated by paratactic disruptions, Patel dredges the histories of land and lands from the sediment of all we take for granted. Against this backdrop, family and friends offer sustenance and comfort against despair, even as she accepts that she “can save no one.” As for the natural world, it is, at present, precariously “here,” however often “ice on a lake breaks from the weight where a man stands.” —Tyrone Williams