The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night Featuring Alan Harris

PianoFight 144 Taylor St, San Francisco

Hosted by Jennifer Barone, Ingrid Keir, live jazz with Daniel Heffez, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. Open Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 6:45pm – 3min time limit, pick...

Carmen Giménez Smith

City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco

Carmen Giménez Smith Tuesday, May 15, 2018, 7:00 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco   celebrating the release of Cruel Futures City...

Free

GET LIT #36 (MUSIC BY MICHAEL ALSO)

Ale Industries 3096 E 10th Street, Oakland

IT'S OUR 3-YEAR ANNIVERSARY! Come celebrate 36 continuous months of Nomadic Press' Get Lit show! Started by J. K. Fowler and Annelyse Gelman three years ago, we have been graced with the...

$10 – $25

Rahna Reiko Rizzuto / Shadow Child

The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco

The Bindery hosts Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (Hiroshima in the Morning and Why She Left Us) for her new novel, Shadow Child. Please join us! Shadow Child is a gorgeous novel about...

Free

Julia Dixon Evans

Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco

Julia Dixon Evans discusses her new novel, How to Set Yourself on Fire. PRAISE FOR HOW TO SET YOURSELF ON FIRE “How to Set Yourself on Fire is...

Free

Mark Greenside

Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley

Mark Greenside Reads from (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living, a sequel of sorts to I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do), about which the San...