Celebrate Muni Art 2019! The Poetry Society of America collaborates with San Francisco Beautiful, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, and Supervisor Sandra Fewer to present Muni Art 2019, which has transformed 100 Muni buses into galleries featuring work by a diverse range of talented poets and artists. Inspired by the Poetry Society of America's Poetry in Motion® program, which places poetry in the transit systems of cities throughout the country, and San Francisco Beautiful's mission to create and protect the unique beauty and livability of San Francisco, Muni Art 2019 provides a unique and powerful opportunity for bus riders to experience an exhilarating collaboration between poets Francisco X. Alarcón, Brenda Hillman, Jane Hirshfield, Cedar Sigo, and C. Dale Young, and artists Crystal Vielula, Christine Weibel, Nick Cook, Arthur Koch, and Bhavna Misra. Those listed below will converge in San Francisco to share and celebrate their work.
11am
San Francisco City Hall
Polk Street Steps
1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Pl
San Francisco, CA 94102
A launch and reading on the steps of City Hall, with Darcy Brown, Executive Director of San Francisco Beautiful, Supervisor Sandra Fewer, former California State Senator Mark Leno, Michelle Jeffers, Chief, Communications, Programs & Partnerships at San Francisco Public Library, Alice Quinn, Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America, poets Cathy Arellano, on behalf of Francisco X. Alarcón, Garrett Caples, on behalf of Cedar Sigo, Brenda Hillman, and Jane Hirshfield, and artists Crystal Vielula, Christine Weibel, Nick Cook, Arthur Koch, and Bhavna Misra.
6:00pm, doors open at 5:30
Koret Auditorium
San Francisco Public Library
Main Branch
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Featured poets and artists will present their work and discuss the joys and challenges of this public collaboration. Books by participating poets will be sold before and after the event. Presenters include poets Cathy Arellano, on behalf of Francisco X. Alarcón, Garrett Caples, on behalf of Cedar Sigo, Brenda Hillman, Jane Hirshfield, and Dean Rader, on behalf of C. Dale Young, and artists Crystal Vielula, Christine Weibel, Nick Cook, Arthur Koch, and Bhavna Misra.
Free and open to the public.
Co-presented by the Poetry Society of America and San Francisco Beautiful.
