Official Venues for LitHop 2026

12:00 PM Memoir in Motion (feat. Samina Najmi, Renee Gilmore, Armen Bacon, and Soreath Hok)

1:00 PM Dueling Poets: Riffs and Reverberations (feat. Angela Chaidez Vincent, Corrinne Clegg Hales, Michelle Patton, and Steven Sanchez)

2:00 PM Whimsy and Magical in the Margins: A Filipinx American Reading (feat. Jason Bayani, Conrad A. Panganiban, Aimee Suzara, and Von Torres)

3:00 PM Earth, Water, Air, Fire (feat. Jackie Ryle, Charles Hensley, Paul E. Pierce, and Tino Agustin De Guevara)

4:00 PM Where I Belong: How personal geography informs writing across genres (feat. Preeti Vangani, Rowena Leong Singer, Elizabeth Svoboda, and Sabina Khan-Ibarra)

1:00 PM Brown and Proud: LGBTQ Poets Writing in Troubling Times (feat. Mateo Perez Lara, Steven Sanchez, Juan Luis Guzmán, and Eduardo Martinez-Leyva)

3:00 PM Narrow Escapes (feat. Linnea Alexander, Jack Chavoor, Will Freeny, and Danielle Potter)

4:00 PM Autonomous Wonder: Reflective Prose, Poetry and Essays of Interpersonal Healing and Exploration (feat. Seemah Umat and Monica Arreola-Camacho)

12:00 PM Of Monsters, Monarchs, and other Muses (feat. Steven Church, Jessica Johnson, James Morrison, and Sara Wainscott)

1:00 PM She Who Speaks: A Black Woman’s Cypher (feat. Kwamise "LadyK" Fletcher, NeFesha Ruth Y'israel, Alexandria Benn, and Jazelle Marie)

2:00 PM Flight (feat. Megan Anderson Bohigian, Corrinne Clegg Hales, C. G. Hanzlicek, and John Hales)

3:00 PM Writing Across Cultures (feat. Melineh Ani Yemenidjian, Clara Ximena Roque-Wagner, Ely Lupe, and Sammy Herrera)

4:00 PM Wordplay (feat. Jacob Byron Selway, Andrew Lackey, Alexandria Bibler, and Raúl Rivera)

12:00 PM What We Carry: Navigating Grief Through Poetry (feat. Erica Castro, Hope Cerna, M. K. Sullivan, and Betty Harbison)

1:00 PM Mental Health, Trauma, and the Power of Poetry (feat. M. K. Sullivan, Melineh Ani Yemenidjian, Ely Lupe, and Jamie Maxwell)

2:00 PM Writing Ourselves Into the World (feat. Cherice Cameron, Erica Castro, Lisa Montagne, and Jamie Maxwell)

3:00 PM Humor, Wit, and Satire (feat. Peter Lechuga, Mike Bonifer, Betty Harbison, and Lisa Montagne)

4:00 PM The Ties That Bind (feat. Vanessa Espino, Louise Kantro, Linda Scheller, and Jesse Wolfe)

12:00 PM The Revolutionary Power of Rage: Asian Women Poets Reclaim Angerf (feat. Maw Shein Win, Preeti Vangani, Sabina Khan-Ibarra, and Jenny Qi)

1:00 PM Rimes & Rhizomes: written ecologies in between worlds (feat. Indigo Terán, Celeste Jones, Alexander Ayers, and Emerald Medrano)

2:00 PM Oddly Curious: How Unexpected Curiosities Enliven Writers’ Work (feat. Elizabeth Svoboda, Brad Balukjian, Rowena Leong Singer, and Jenny Qi)

3:00 PM A Circle of Seers: Women who survived childhood without Caller ID (feat. Deborah Mechele Bento, Tere Joyce, Sharon K. McClain, and Anya Connely-Howland)

4:00 PM OneiRomantics (feat. Angela Chaidez Vincent, sami h. tripp, Melinda Madeiros, and Virginia Barnes)

11:00 AM Ohuaya! Fresno State Juan Felipe Herrera Laureate Lab

12:00 PM Gillis Library Cluster (feat. Bill Simmons, Gavriel Gómez, Tiffany Evans, and Steve Below)

1:00 PM Beyond Masculinity: Poetry and Vulnerability (feat. Peter Lechuga, Jeffery Martin, Mike Bonifer, and Jake Terán)

2:00 PM Fresno City College Poetry Student Reading (feat. Lewis Allen, Chris Colter, Rose Collins, Esmeralda Garcia-Lopez, Alexander Gonzalez, Lloyd Hall, Ivy McFiren, Liam Mirise, Amy Arlesa Ronhaar, Linda Shekerjian, and Alex Taylor)

12:00 PM broke poets collective showcase (feat. Ellie Celina Labampa, Andrea Aliseda, Shaena Reyes, and Kyle Doria)

1:00 PM Great Migrations: Love Letter to Latinx Adolescence (feat. Margarita Engle, René Rodríguez-Astacio, Stefan Leiva, and Antonia Cardinale)

2:00 PM La Raíz Magazine Power Poetry (feat. Montezuma III Zepeda, Christiane Williams-Vigil, Alberto Saldaña Uribe, and Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo)

3:00 PM Family Folklore (feat. Alberto Saldaña Uribe, Michael Cantu, Andy Marin Contreras, and Cristina Sandoval)

4:00 PM One Thousand Arms One Thousand Mouths (feat. Sylvia Savala, S. Bryan Medina, Marisol Baca, and Kwamise Fletcher)

12:00 PM San Francisco On the Road Writers (feat. Joseph Donohoe, Joe Clifford, Charlie Getter, and Bridgit Clancy)

1:00 PM Sharpen Your Verbs (feat. Devoya Mayo, Soreath Hok, Michelle Morgante Del Rio, and Samantha Teteangco)

2:00 PM We, The Rancid Tree (feat. Blu Torres, Ozzy Cortez, Brenda "Morita" Mora, and Destiny Delgado Gonzales)

3:00 PM Flash Resistance (feat. Venita Blackburn, Alison Mandaville, Michele McConnell, and Brenna Womer)

12:00 PM Mythmaking: Unearthed & Reinvented (feat. Amelia Holguin, Ivy Tong, Celeste Jones, and Leslie Kay Quintana)

1:00 PM Chillin’ at the Park (feat. Nikolai Garcia, maestro gamin, Iris De Anda, and Tori Gesualdo)

2:00 PM A Third More Hopeful Thing (feat. Haley White, Allison Botello-Nieto, Gina Sandí-Díaz, and Wade Pierson)

3:00 PM Trio House Press Quartet (feat. Samina Najmi, Rhoni Blankenhorn, Leila Farjami, and Mai-Linh Hong)

4:00 PM The Four Horticulturists of the Apocalypse (feat. Venita Blackburn, Steven Church, Mai Der Vang, and Brenna Womer)

12:00 PM Poetry, Protest, and Resistance (feat. Cherice Cameron, Sammy Herrera, Jeffery Martin, and Alexis Jaimes)

1:00 PM Together We Rise (feat. Alexis Jaimes, Clara Ximena Roque-Wagner, Jake Terán, and Hope Cerna)

2:00 PM Beyond the Manosphere (feat. Kaylynn Holt, Antonia Cardinale, Hannah Sutton, and Ivy Tong)

3:00 PM The Grotesque Ordinary (feat. Allyssa Gaines, Ivy McFiren, Alex Taylor, and TBA reader)

4:00 PM Self Taught Angels (feat. Xyo Tompkins, Salvador Mendoza, Eddie "The Okay," and Brisa)

5:00 PM-? STAY & TOAST LITHOP’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY WITH US, YOUR HARDWORKING STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS.