City Lights and Wave Books Present

For the third and final phase of this year's Lit Crawl event - part of the annual, wonderful Litquake literary festival, we are delighted to host City Lights and Wave Books as they present three exemplars of contemporary American literature reading from recent works of poetry and prose.

Garrett Caples is the author of The Garrett Caples Reader, Complications, andQuintessence of the Minor. He's an editor at City Lights and curates the new American poetry series, City Lights Spotlight.

Maggie Nelson is the author of four books of nonfiction and four books of poetry. She teaches at CalArts and lives in Los Angeles.

Cedar Sigo is the author of Selected Writings (2003) and Stranger in Town (2010); he lives in San Francisco.