Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island

Book Passage San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco

Wild Geese Sorrow is based upon new translations of the mostly anonymous poems carved into the men’s barracks walls at the Angel Island Immigration Station....

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Keep Begin Detach: Yoko Ono

E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland

Keep Begin Detach: Multimedia Essays Come to EM Wolfman for an exploration of text and image, music and silence, meditation and performance. Inspired by Yoko...

Fundraiser for STREET SHEET SF

Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco

Street Sheet, a local newspaper produced and distributed by homeless and/or low-income people. Adobe Bookstore is honored to host a fundraiser that will showcase the...

radical poesies: Steven Seidenberg + A’aron Heard + Tongo Eisen-Martin

Institute Of advanced Uncertainty [I.O.U.] 296 Ivy Street, btwn. Gough and Franklin, San Francisco

radical poesies Steven Seidenberg + A’aron Heard + Tongo Eisen-Martin Curated by Tongo Eisen-Martin Wednesday! May 16th Doors 6:30PM Program7PM FREE    

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Michelle Tea

City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco

Michelle Tea celebrating the release of her new book Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms from Feminist Press The razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas, a doomed...

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Claudia Rankine at Stanford Live

Bing Concert Hall 327 Lasuen St., Stanford

African American poet Claudia Rankine speaks to the human condition in all its many manifestations. A winner of the 2016 MacArthur Fellowship and author of...

$20

Townsend Walker / 3 Women, 4 Towns, 5 Bodies

The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco

The Bindery hosts Townsend Walker in conversation withMartha Conway about his new short story collection, 3 Women, 4 Towns, 5 Bodies. Townsend will read a story from the collection and...

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Poets giovanni singleton and Carmen Gimenez Smith

Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley

Born in New York, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from...

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May Day, May Day–Lyrics & Dirges

Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley

Jump from spring to summer with a literary reading that will leave you giddy and bubbly with. . . DeMareon Gipson Liz Green Barbara Jane...