Respite by the River
Thursday, August 13, 2026
The Evening Schedule:
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Live dinner music, bring your dinner, lawn chair, or blanket.
Reading by acclaimed author
Steven Sanchez
Steven Sanchez’s debut book, Phantom Tongue (Sundress Publications), was chosen by Mark Doty for the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award. He is a CantoMundo Fellow, a Lambda Literary Fellow, and the inaugural winner of the Federico Garcia Lorca Poetry Prize for an emerging Latinx poet and was also awarded residencies from Tin House and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. His poems appear in Agni, American Poetry Review, The Missouri Review, Poet Lore, and North American Review. He lives in Fresno, California, where he completed his MFA in Creative Writing at California State University, Fresno and won the College of Arts and Humanities Outstanding Thesis Award.
Tip Jar
Tip Jar is a local band just having fun while entertaining you with a mixture of blues, pop, rock, and original tunes.