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• Leonora Miano
  City Lights and the Cultural Services of the Consul General of France in San Francisco present Cameroonian writer Leonora Miano whose new novel, "Season of the Shadow," presents the early days of the transatlantic slave trade from the perspective of the sub-Saharan population that became its first victims: one day, a group of villagers discovers […]
• Saul Williams
  World-renowned spoken word artist Saul Williams returns to Oakland to kick off the 2018 Matatu Festival of Stories. The event is part film-- "The Third Part of the Third Measure" by The Otolith Group (43 min, 2017), an audiovisual composition featuring the militant minimalism of avant-garde composer, pianist and vocalist Julius Eastman--part performance and part […]
• Celebrating San Francisco Writers
  An evening of readings by members of one of SF's longest-running writing groups: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton ("A Kind of Freedom"), Esme Weijun Wang ("The Border of Paradise"), Colin Winnette ("The Job of the Wasp"), Anisse Gross, Caille Millner ("The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification"), Rachel Khong ("Goodbye, Vitamin"), Lydia Kiesling ("The Golden State") and […]
• Kevin Young
  The Creative Writing Reading Series at St. Mary's College of California presents Kevin Young, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and poetry editor of The New Yorker. Young is the author of 13 books of poetry and prose, most recently "Brow" and "Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015," which was […]