Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays guest curated by Litquake, Poetic Tuesdays features an array of poets and music.

This event cosponsored by LITQUAKE in conjunction with City Lights and Grove Press celebrating the release of Freeman's Literary Journal: POWER Issue published by Grove Press From the voices of protestors to the encroachment of a new fascism, everywhere we look, power is revealed. Spouse to spouse, soldier to citizen, looker to gazed upon, power is never static: it is either demonstrated or deployed. Its hoarding is itself a demonstration. This thought-provoking issue of the acclaimed literary annual Freeman's explores who gets…

John Jay Osborn discusses his new novel Listen to the Marriage. About Listen to the Marriage Gretchen and Steve have been married for a long time. Living in San Francisco, recently separated, with two children and demanding jobs, they've started going to a marriage counselor. Unfolding over the course of ten months and taking place entirely in the marriage counselor's office, John Jay Osborn's Listen to the Marriage is the story of a fractured couple in a moment of crisis, and of the…

The Bindery hosts a special evening with Erin Gibson for her debut book of essays Feminasty: The Complicated Woman’s Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death. Please join us!   Erin Gibson has a singular goal - to create a utopian future where women are recognized as humans. In FEMINASTY—titled after her nickname on the hit podcast "Throwing Shade”—she has written a collection of make-you-laugh-until-you-cry essays that expose the hidden rules that make life as a woman unnecessarily hard and deconstructs them in a way that's bold,…

John Kaag discusses his new book, Hiking With Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are. Praise For Hiking With Nietzsche "Meditative . . . thought provoking . . . Kaag has crafted a stirring account of a personal encounter with a great mind." --Publishers Weekly   "Kaag succeeds . . . through his courage to approach Nietzsche, and philosophy in general, from a personal―and not just intellectual―perspective . . . .A meditative work full of self-understanding that will resonate with anyone who…

Join United Booksellers, San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck, and the poets for what is likely to be the last live reading of 2018 from the limited edition chapbook, The City Is Already Speaking: The Sound of Calle 24  Featured readers: *Josiah Luis Alderete * Dee Allen * Simon Crafts * Flavia Elisa * E.K. Keith * Thea Matthews * Linda Noel * Raul Ruiz * Denise Sullivan & Ricardo Tavarez plus special guests. join United Booksellers, San Francisco Poet…

H. Bruce Franklin discusses his new book Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War. About Crash Course Growing up during the Second World War, H. Bruce Franklin believed what he was told: that America's victory would lead to a new era of world peace. Like most Americans, he was soon led to believe in a world-wide Communist conspiracy that menaced the United States, forcing the nation into a disastrous war in Korea. But once he joined the U.S.…

Damion Searls discusses his translation of Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, by Uwe Johnson. Sponsored by The Center for the Art of Translation. About Anniversaries A landmark of 20th Century literature about New York in the late 1960s, now in English for the first time. Late in 1967, Uwe Johnson, already one of the most celebrated German novelists of his generation, set out to write a book that would take the form of an entry for every…

FREE! One of the most anticipated literary nights of the year, San Francisco's Lit Crawl began in 2004, and has grown to attract nearly 10,000 people. Today, it is the world’s largest such event.

Please join us for a great night of literary fun along 24th Street! Phase 1:  FLOR Y CANTO 2018 https://www.facebook.com/SFFloryCanto/ Phase 2:  FORUM Magazine https://www.facebook.com/ForumMagazine/ Phase 3:  THE RACKET https://www.facebook.com/theracketseries/

Date: Saturday, October 20, 2018 Time: 6pm doors, 6:30pm event Admission: Free Hazel Reading Series features an all-star lineup of readers. After the intermission, The Escapery readers explore life’s peaks and craters, the ways that the moonshine reaches all of us, the glint and glare of love and death, and the waning gleam of the moon as we move through our lives. One of the most anticipated literary nights of the year, Lit Crawl San Francisco is a massive, one-night literary pub…

part of phase 2 of the 2018 San Francisco Lit Crawl, will take place at Incline Gallery, 766 Valencia Street, San Francisco, Saturday October 20th, 6.30-7.30 pm, featuring Emer Martin (The Cruelty Men), Colin Winnette (The Job of the Wasp), Anca Szil�gyi (Daughters of the Air), Cyrus Armajani (Benefits of Doubt), and Simi Singh Juneja.

Poets Chernoff & Chernovski