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San Jose Poetry Festival
The Third Annual San José Poetry Festival will celebrate our community's diverse ethnic and cultural heritage with a wide range of topics and literary styles reflected in performances and workshops.
Find out more »William Finnegan
William Finnegan is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography for Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, also chosen as a Best Book of 2015 by Publishers Weekly. In addition, he is the author of Cold New World, A Complicated War, Dateline Soweto, and Crossing the Line. He has twice been a National Magazine Award finalist and has won numerous journalism awards, including two Overseas Press Club awards since 2009. A staff writer at The New Yorker since 1987, he lives in Manhattan. November 8, 7pm — Reading & Conversation with Steve Kettmann, Café…
Find out more »Peter Balakian
Lewandowski Poet In conjunction with Legacy of Poetry Day.
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