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• Oakland Peace Festival
  The 2nd of a three-event series organized by Nomadic Press, the inaugural Oakland Peace Festival celebrates Oakland and peace through music, art, writing, food, and community building. August's theme is Equity, with readings by Josiah Luis Alderete, Flavia Mora, Darius Simpson, Daniel B. Summerhill and Vernon Keeve III, a talk by Cat Brooks and music […]
• Beat Up & Beat Down
  The Beat Museum hosts a special evening in collaboration with 70-year-old NY-based performance poet and organizer George Wallace, who is making a rare West Coast appearance. Wallace was Writer in Residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace from 2011-2014. Joining him are Iranian-San Franciscan poet and translator Mahnaz Badihian and San Luis Obispo-based Moroccan-American poet Youssef […]
• Launch for Susan Steinberg with Ryan Van Meter
  Author of the short story collections "The End of Free Love" (2003), "Hydroplane" (2006), and "Spectacle" (2013), Susan Steinberg reads from her debut novel "Machine." The words 'experimental' and 'masterful' are often used to describe Steinberg's work, for which she has received a Pushcart Prize. A professor in the USF MFA in Writing program, Steinberg […]
• gods with a little g
  Tupelo Hassman ("Girlchild") returns to San Francisco to read from her second novel "gods with a little g", about a young misfit growing up without a mother in a self-isolated California town even the Internet is blocked and the ways in which she and her friends come together to create a sense of family and […]
• Pod Saves America
  Communications Director and then Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama, Dan Pfeiffer is co-host of the popular podcast Pod Save America and author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller "Yes We (Still) Can: Politics In the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump." The book is Pfeiffer's response to the initial shock of Trump's election […]
• Writers With Drinks
  Charlie Jane Anders ("The City in the Middle of the Night") hosts her longstanding, wide-ranging literary variety show with so much verve and creativity that the author's bios are often the most entertaining part of the night. But not for lack of talent: this month's event features readings by Namwali Serpell, Vanessa Hua, Seth Katz, […]
• Poets Speak Closing Celebration
  Curated by Raina J León, the weekly summer series Poets Speak features eight poets sharing new work in response to the exhibitions at the Museum of the African Diaspora. This event concludes the series, and features readings by all eight poets: Danusha Lameris, Tonya M. Foster, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Avotcja, Thea Matthews, Tureeda Mikell, Marvin K. […]
• Diane di Prima Reading and Birthday Celebration
  Influential poet and activist Diane di Prima celebrates her 85th birthday with a not-to-be-missed reading. Often considered a bridge between the Beat generation and the hippies who followed she famously worked with both Amiri Baraka and Timothy Leary di Prima got involved with the Beats in Manhattan in her 20s before moving to San Francisco, […]
• Marc Huestis: Impresario of Castro Street
  Co-founder of Frameline, now the oldest and largest LGBTQ film festival in the world, Marc Huestis reads from his long-awaited "Impresario of Castro Street: An Intimate Showbiz Memoir", which covers 45 years of San Francisco gay history including the creation of first generation AIDS documentaries in the 80s and 90s and more than 20 years […]
• A Live Poetry Show, w/a Band
  Poet Daniel B. Summerhill leads a live poetry performance with multi-instrumentalist Doug Barron and drummer Michael McGee. Together, the three have taken their show to 25 states and headlined both a European tour and a South African Poetry festival. Joining them for this event are Oakland-based poet/activist Tenesha the Wordsmith and Oakland-based spoken word artist […]