the racket sf

the racket sf reading series

The Racket SF - Commune Oakland

The Racket SF Presents: Lonesome Crowded West.


Beth Winegarner is a journalist and author who has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and many more. Her most recent book, “San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History” maps the city’s current and former graveyards and uncovers how many are still secretly buried there.


Rebecca Rubenstein is a writer and editor based in San Francisco, and a member of The Ruby, a Bay Area arts-and-letters space for femme and nonbinary creatives. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, X-R-A-Y, No Contact, and HAD, among others, and she is a Fiction Editor for The Offing.


T.S. Leonard is a poet and the author of Emergency Meditations.  Leonard’s work explores queerness, loss, and community at the intersection of disco music and time travel.  Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, he lives and teaches in San Francisco.


Kar Johnson is a writer, performer, and bookseller living in Oakland, CA. Their work has appeared in or is forthcoming from L’Éphémère Review, Foglifter,The Northridge Review, and the Red Light Lit anthology Love is the Drug and Other Dark Poems. They serve as the events coordinator for Green Apple Books.


Ariel Neidermeier is a writer and astrologer based in San Francisco, CA. Her work has appeared in Hella Pinay Magazine, Seismic Sisters, and the Write from the Gut reading series. A graduate of Emerson College's journalism program, Ariel is currently working on her first book of poetry.

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5:30pm Leg 2 - Commune Oakland