Green Apple Books 9th Ave: Jen Siraganian with Tongo Eisen-Martin, Nancy Miller Gomez, and Christin Rice
Dec 1, 2026· 7:00 PM· Books on the Park on 9th Avenue 1231 9th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94122
About Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead
In her debut collection, Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead, Jen Siraganian traces a self shaped by history, fragmentation, and memory as she weaves her family’s past in the Middle East with her identity as an Armenian-American woman and mother. Whether portraying a grandparent’s survival during the Armenian Genocide, a father’s childhood in 1940s Palestine, or a son’s birth when “death is a neighbor,” Siraganian’s poems interrogate concepts of home, origins, belonging, and displacement. Using a docupoetic lens, the poet braids narratives with archival photographs and artifacts to chart cycles of cultural and historic erasure while enacting an intertextual conversation with artists of the diaspora, and with art itself. Through poems that seed each other with recurring images of pomegranates, mushrooms, and fire, Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead pushes against annihilation with a voice that resists silence.
About Jen Siraganian
Jen Siraganian is an Armenian-American writer, educator, and former poet laureate of Los Gatos, California. Her poetry has appeared in AGNI, Best New Poets 2016 and 2025, The Cincinnati Review, Electric Literature, Poetry Daily, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, the anthology Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry, and elsewhere, and she is a winner of the New Ohio Review Poetry Prize and The Writing Salon’s Jane Underwood Poetry Prize, She served as managing director of Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival, and she is a Lucas Artist Fellow at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California. Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead is her first book.
Accessibility
The event is located on the ground level, and there are no stairs between the entrance and event space.
Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead, winner of the 2026 Perugia Press Prize
Other readings:
Poetry Flash with Lucille Lang Day
Dec 13, 2026· Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley
https://www.poetryflash.org/calendar/?t=0o20261213o_day-siraganian
Poets Celebrate Jen Siraganian’s Everything Has Been Moved, Even The Dead with Judy Halebsky and Amanda Moore
Dec 16, 2026· 6:00· San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street San Francisco, CA 94102