CRESTED returns for its third year! This annual event is focused on centering Tucson's local poets and encouraging attendees from the Tucson Festival of Books to venture off-campus into our extraordinary downtown. An itinerant event with rotating hosts, this year we are proud to partner with Slow Body Brewing Co, donating 10% of bar sales to Salvavision! Come enjoy some after-festival-hours pints and poems!

All are welcome: friends from near and far—la gente de Cuk Ṣon y cualquier ciudad—the poetry passionate and the verse-curious. Each year, the Crested reading features poets moderating panels at the Tucson Festival of Books, along with some special quests. Lineup to come—check back here in February!

Crested is named in honor of the incredible mutation some saguaros display, developing pleats and a fan-like shape. Like poetry, cresting remains a bit of a mystery; like poets, crested saguaros embrace their strangeness, continuing to grow and flower through the transformation. And like this wonderfully odd phenomenon, our little offsite reading is something of an outgrowth from the festival: a little weirder, a little more Tucson, and a lot more photogenic.

Doors at 7 p.m., reading begins at 7:30 on the patio.

No entry fee, suggested $5 donation going to support Salvavision: "Salvavision is dedicated to providing comprehensive support to asylum seekers and deportees. We support asylum seekers by preventing homelessness and facilitating successful community integration. We offer immediate housing, essential resources, medical care, legal needs, and financial stability assistance.

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