Telegraph Hill Arts and Literature

06/11/2026

We’re excited to announce the return of “Voices from the Hill” a podcast dedicated to showcasing the incredible talent right here in our literary backyard.

You can find our latest podcast at TelHiLit.org/podcast as well as your favorite podcast platform. Be sure to subscribe.

Also happy Pub Day!

The Imaginary Life of a Laurel Tree, by Mario Fortunato

Villa Coco, by Andrew Sean Greer

Next Friday, June19th at 6:30pm is a book release party for My Twin the Murderer, by Linday Kent.

On Friday, June 26th, be sure to get your tickets to “Una Serata Italiana...” an evening of Italian music, live at Libreria Pino. Get your tickets now at TelHiLit.org!

06/10/2026

Today we’re honored to welcome Kim Shuck — poet, artist, SF Poet Laureate emeritus and curator of the Poem Jam literary series at the SF Public Library. Her poetry collections include Smuggling Cherokee, Deer Trails, Exile Heart, and the recent “Pick a Garnet to Sleep In” and “Noodle, Rant, Tangent” each a beautifully crafted reflection of memory, place and community. She has also edited and co-edited over 10 poetry collections with Bay Area writers. From her art, including a current project on extinct, extirpated, and endangered animals, her beautiful beadwork and basket weaving projects to her poetry that honors Indigenous heritage, Kim invites us into worlds of depth, resilience, and profound storytelling. We’re thrilled to dive into her inspirations, her practice, and what’s next for this remarkable artist living and writing in the SF Bay Area.

06/04/2026

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06/02/2026

Please join us on Friday, June 19th at 6:30pm for an evening with Lindsay Kent...

Who Owns Your Mind? Psychedelics, Power, and the Stories That Shape Reality

🔗 https://bit.ly/Lindsay_Kent_MTTM

Who controls the story of the psychedelic experience—and why does that matter now? In this immersive talk, reading, and film presentation, award-winning filmmaker and novelist Lindsay Kent traces the strange American lineage connecting CIA experimentation, Bay Area counterculture, moral panic, and today’s rapidly institutionalizing psychedelic renaissance. Featuring a film excerpt from Going Furthur alongside readings from My Twin the Murderer—Kent's debut psychological thriller exploring fractured identity, paranoia, and manipulated perception—the event moves through the hidden history of Ken Kesey’s MKUltra involvement, the Acid Tests, and the backlash that followed LSD’s criminalization.

Lindsay Kent, aka The Hallucinarrator, is an award-winning filmmaker turned fiction writer whose work explores the luminous edges of consciousness and psychedelics. Her films include the 2014 documentary Going Furthur, retracing the arc of MKUltra and America’s counterculture; the Gaia docuseries Plant Medicine, set at an Ayahuasca retreat center in Costa Rica; and the acclaimed comedy short The Split, about life with (and without) an ego.

06/01/2026

Welcome to June, and Happy Pride Month! Telegraph Hill Arts and Literature presents its calendar of events for the month of June!!!

05/31/2026

Sabina Khan-Ibarra is a Pashtun Muslim American poet, writer, educator. Her work appears in Anomaly, SWWIM, Rising Phoenix, and iO Literary, and has been recognized by CRAFT and SmokeLong Award for Flash Fiction. Her poetry collection, What My Mouth Holds, is a two-time semifinalist, and she’s working on a short story collection. She teaches at The Writers Grotto, Litquake, and San Diego Writers Ink, and serves as Director of Rooted & Written.

Please join us on Saturday, June 6th! The theme for this Aloud/Out Loud is: Out of Fury Into Grace: Poems & Stories of Reckoning and Resilience.

Join us for a night of readings from Writers Grotto authors and Rooted & Written alumni. Emceed by Leslie Kirk Campbell.

🔗 https://donorbox.org/events/936954

05/30/2026

Lisa Rosenberg is a poet, essayist, and former space program engineer. She served as Poet Laureate of San Mateo County, and has received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Djerassi Residency, and MOSAIC America Fellowship. Her essays span craft, satire, science, and memoir. Her poems explore interconnectedness across disparate aspects of nature and culture. She is the author of Weeds and Stars (just released from The Word Works) and A Different Physics (2018), poetry collections that reflect decades of polydisciplinary inquiry.

Please join us on Saturday, June 6th! The theme for this Aloud/Out Loud is: Out of Fury Into Grace: Poems & Stories of Reckoning and Resilience.

Join us for a night of readings from Writers Grotto authors and Rooted & Written alumni. Emceed by Leslie Kirk Campbell.

🔗 https://donorbox.org/events/936954

05/29/2026

Lauren C. Johnson attributes her upbringing in Florida–America’s weirdest state–to her interest in the ecological and surreal. She's the interviews editor for The Racket Journal and is a co-founder and editor of Club Chicxulub, a speculative fiction journal and reading series. She also co-hosts Babylon Salon, one of the longest-running reading series in the Bay Area. Her short stories, interviews, and essays have appeared in numerous journals, including The Rumpus and Orion Magazine online. The West Façade is her debut novel.

Please join us on Saturday, June 6th! The theme for this Aloud/Out Loud is: Out of Fury Into Grace: Poems & Stories of Reckoning and Resilience.

Join us for a night of readings from Writers Grotto authors and Rooted & Written alumni. Emceed by Leslie Kirk Campbell.

🔗 https://donorbox.org/events/936954

05/28/2026

Dr. Lama Rimawi is a pediatrician and writer. She co-founded the Institute for the Understanding of Anti-Palestinian Racism and is a Board Member of the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom. A 2023 SF Writer’s Grotto Rooted and Written Fellow and 2024 Mesa Refuge Fellow, she was interviewed by Judy Woodruff on the PBS NewsHour Reframe Festival for her advocacy work. She is completing her first book, You Would Die in Lifta: A Palestinian American Doctor's Story of Betrayal, Racism and Hope.

Please join us on Saturday, June 6th! The theme for this Aloud/Out Loud is: Out of Fury Into Grace: Poems & Stories of Reckoning and Resilience.

Join us for a night of readings from Writers Grotto authors and Rooted & Written alumni. Emceed by Leslie Kirk Campbell.

🔗 https://donorbox.org/events/936954

05/28/2026

Please join us on Friday, June 26th at 8:00 PM as we welcome back Italian musician Andrea Algieri for a solo concert! Plus special guest Inframezzo!

🔗 https://bit.ly/Una_Serata_Italiana_2026

Andrea Algieri is a musician, singer, and songwriter best known as the leader of the band Mbrascatu. Through his work with the group, he has developed a distinctive style that blends Mediterranean musical roots with contemporary songwriting and energetic live performances.

For this tour, Andrea Algieri presents a solo show featuring songs from the Mbrascatu repertoire arranged for voice and guitar. The performance offers an intimate interpretation of the band’s music, highlighting the melodies, rhythms, and stories behind the songs in a direct and engaging format.

Inframezzo: from the Italian definition, “elemento di interruzione del tempo”. It’s also the space between two acts of a play or musical piece connecting them. Fra, short for Francesca, also means “in between” in Italian. And Fra, divided in between two lands, is the piece connecting Inframezzo, a music collaboration with Rex John Shelverton (Tamaryn, Vue, Bellavista), Jeremy Bringetto, Rachel Hoiem and Emma Feickert.

Concert Details...
There are 12 reserved seats available. The majority will be floor seating, so you can bring cushions or blankets to make yourself comfortable.
If you’ll be bringing your drinks to the show, please make sure to also bring your own utensils (including cups and bottle openers).