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- Oakland Peace FestivalThe 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 DownThe 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 MeterAuthor 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 gTupelo 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 […]