Name: Divination Poetics: Spells & the Tarot
Start: 2026-10-24T18:30:00-0700
End: 2026-10-24T19:30:00-0700

One of the most anticipated literary nights of the year, Lit Crawl San Francisco is a massive, one-night literary pub crawl through San Francisco’s Mission District on Saturday, October 25th from 5:00-9:00pm. Join us to cap off another great festival, and don’t miss out on the afterparty at Drawing Room Annex!

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Divination Poetics: Spells & the Tarot

Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

Curio Bar SF @ The Chapel (775 Valencia St, San Francisco 94110)

From T.S. Eliot to Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe, poets have long experimented with the tarot as a generative praxis. How can we, amidst current & ongoing crises, incorporate the tarot or spellwork in our writing practices, as a means of healing interspecies relationships, cultural lineages, or even ourselves? Explore ways poets from various backgrounds use divination as a practice to collaborate with issues of apocalypse, gender, the biodiverse, and the lyric as they intersect to construct a poetics.

Authors & Performers

Sezin Devi (Koehler)

Sezin Devi Koehler is the multiracial Sri Lankan/Lithuanian author of Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory, a sociocultural deep-dive into Keanu Reeves’ work. Sezin writes from an Oakland historic landmark that looks like the house from Practical Magic, where she can see... Read More →

Melissa Eleftherion

Melissa Eleftherion (she/they) is a writer, a librarian, and a visual artist. Born & raised in Brooklyn, she is the author of four poetry collections including Suture (Cooper Dillon, 2026) & Malocchia (White Stag, 2026) as well as 12 chapbooks from various presses. Melissa served... Read More →

Georgina Marie Guardado

Georgina Marie Guardado, MFA (Latinx, Indigenous, she/her), is Poet Laureate Emerita of Lake County, CA for 2020-2024 and a Poets Laureate Fellow with The Academy of American Poets. She serves as the Literacy Program Coordinator for the Lake County Library and Marketing Director for... Read More →

Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Curio Bar SF @ The Chapel (775 Valencia St, San Francisco 94110) 775 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 2

Audience 21+
Genre poetry, healing

Lit Crawl San Francisco 2026

Sezin Devi (Koehler)

Melissa Eleftherion

Georgina Marie Guardado

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Lit Crawl San Francisco 2026

Sezin Devi (Koehler)

Melissa Eleftherion

Georgina Marie Guardado

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