# Event Details - **Event Name**: Performance: SF Poet Laureate Genny Lim and SF Youth Poet Laureates - **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 26 Apr, 2026 at 01:00 am – Sun, 26 Apr, 2026 at 02:30 am (-07:00) - **Event Description**: San Francisco’s 9th Poet Laureate Genny Lim hosts a special program featuring our city's first Youth Poet Laureates:.About this EventSan Francisco’s 9th Poet Laureate Genny Lim hosts a special program featuring our city's first Youth Poet Laureates: SF Youth Poet Laureate Karan Gupta, Vice SF Youth Poet Laureate Aisha McCulloch and Tika Zahiri, SF Youth Poet Laureate Cohort Member. Come celebrate poetry as an eternal source of inspiration and resilience, as a vital language of human connection and unity in a world fraught with adversity, violence and disunity. With butterfly harp music performed by Harriet Lim. NOTE: The program takes place in the Latino Room (lower level).Genny Lim, San Francisco’s 9th Poet Laureate, curates the bi-monthly Living Poets Society Reading Series, an intergenerational poetry series that features youth poets and established local poets at various SFPL branch libraries. A former SFJazz Poet Laureate, Lim has collaborated with many musicians, including Del Sol Quarter, Jon Jang, Destiny Muhammad and Max Roach. She is the author of five poetry collections, as well as , winner of the American Book Award.Karan Gupta is the inaugural San Francisco Youth Poet Laureate. A writer since childhood years with his father, Gupta believes that poetry is writing's most potent form and uses it to explore what it means to grow up in a rapidly changing San Francisco.Aisha Rae McCulloch, San Francisco’s first Vice Youth Poet Laureate says, "Poetry is how I process all of it: both what I experience through myself and what I experience through others. Through poetry, I try to make sense of the world around me and the world within me.”Tika Zahiki, born in Redwood City, has lived mostly in San Francisco. She loves playing music, skiing, and being around family, and she especially loves San Francisco when walking to her neighborhood park. Part of the SF Youth Poet Laureate Cohort, she is excited to see where poetry emerges in her future.Harriet Lim, a native San Franciscan, grew up listening to Cantonese classical music in Chinatown. She learned to play the butterfly harp at the age of six and has been playing it ever since. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/san-francisco/performance-sf-poet-laureate-genny-lim-and-sf-youth-poet-laureates/100001983824442310 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, music, entertainment, sports - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: San Francisco - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: San Francisco Public Library - **lat**: 37.77908189999999 - **long**: -122.41579609999997 - **full address**: San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Performance: SF Poet Laureate Genny Lim and SF Youth Poet Laureates - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/8dfd7b3d922a1a8ee22c14ac940b8457deaeb84ae295505916a233e7118d8169-rimg-w885-h467-dc4a0106-gmir.jpg?v=1772106066 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Performance: SF Poet Laureate Genny Lim and SF Youth Poet Laureates being held? - **A:** Performance: SF Poet Laureate Genny Lim and SF Youth Poet Laureates takes place on Sun, 26 Apr, 2026 at 01:00 am to Sun, 26 Apr, 2026 at 02:30 am at San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Performance: SF Poet Laureate Genny Lim and SF Youth Poet Laureates? - **A:** Performance: SF Poet Laureate Genny Lim and SF Youth Poet Laureates is organized by The General Collections & Humanities Center. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Performance: SF Poet Laureate Genny Lim and SF Youth Poet Laureates", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/8dfd7b3d922a1a8ee22c14ac940b8457deaeb84ae295505916a233e7118d8169-rimg-w885-h467-dc4a0106-gmir.jpg?v=1772106066", "startDate": "2026-04-26T01:00:00-07:00", "endDate": "2026-04-26T02:30:00-07:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/san-francisco/performance-sf-poet-laureate-genny-lim-and-sf-youth-poet-laureates/100001983824442310", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "San Francisco Public Library", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "100 Larkin Street", "postalCode": "94102", "addressLocality": "San Francisco", "addressRegion": "CA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "37.77908189999999", "longitude": "-122.41579609999997" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "San Francisco’s 9th Poet Laureate Genny Lim hosts a special program featuring our city's first Youth Poet Laureates:.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-02-26", "availabilityEnds": "2026-04-26T02:30:00-07:00", "validFrom": "2026-02-26", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/san-francisco/performance-sf-poet-laureate-genny-lim-and-sf-youth-poet-laureates/100001983824442310" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-02-26", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-02-26", "url": "https://allevents.in/san-francisco/performance-sf-poet-laureate-genny-lim-and-sf-youth-poet-laureates/100001983824442310", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "The General Collections & Humanities Center", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/the-general-collections-and-humanities-center/20177590", "description": "The General Collections and Humanities Center offers materials in biography, education, history, journalism, library & information science, linguistics, literature, the occult, philosophy, psychology, religion, social sciences, and travel.\r\nThe Bernard Osher Foundation Art, Music and Recreation Center offers material about the visual arts, performing arts, music, sports and recreation." } ] } ] ```