Word for Word presents: RETABLOS By Octavio Solis
Featuring the Chapters Retablos, The Way Over, Consuelo, El Judío, La Migra, La Llorona, Nothing Happens, The Quince, Mexican Apology, El Segundo, Neto, My Right...
$20 – $63
17 events found.
Events for February 20, 2020
Ongoing
Radar: Show Us Your Spines Resident Reading
SHOW US YOUR SPINES is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center. For a month QTIPOC writers...
Free
Catana Chetwynd / Snug
Booksmith presents Catana Chetwynd, in San Francisco for the first time to present her new book, Snug. Come meet Catana and her boyfriend John! PLEASE NOTE: >> ...
$16.50
Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen featuring Kaecey McCormick
Willow Glen Library 1157 Minnesota Avenue, San José, CA, 95125 (408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361 Free and open to the public. Kaecey McCormick is an author,...
Free
“Poetry from Prisoners”
We are pleased to present a sampling of “Poetry from Prisoners” incarcerated in California. Readers will include poets Rose Black and Ken Weisner, currently teaching...
Free
William T. Vollmann
reading from his new novel The Lucky Star: A Novel published by Viking/Penguin The National Book Award winning author returns to his original fictional territory–the...
Free
PEOM: Poetry Every Other Month
Join us every other month at 7pm for a featured poet, an open mic and great drinks and treats! Alameda Poet Laureate Gene Kahane hosts....
Free
The Racket : Revenge
There are themes and then there are THEMES and no one is surprised that REVENGE is absolutely a THEME. We imagine tales of murder and...
Free
Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Christine Carter / The New Adolescence: Raising Happy and Successful Teens in an Age of Anxiety and Distraction
Berkeley Arts & Letters and The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley co-present the launch for the new book by Christine Carter, Ph.D., The New...
$20 – $40
In Common Writers Series: Jennifer Bartlett and Denise Leto, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series opens 2020 with a double program featuring two remarkable poet/writers, each with significant work in disability poetics and activism. This...
Free
Elwin Cotman, Vernon Keeve, Adrienne Oliver, and Alexandra Mattraw Reading
Local writers Elwin Cotman, Vernon Keeve, and Adrienne Oliver read from their work. Elwin Cotman grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whee the post-industrial landscape was...
Free
Paul E. Joseph in conversation with with Dr. Waldo E. Martin Jr. at City Lights Books
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. published by Basic Books This dual biography of Malcolm...
Free
Bay Area Generations: Poets & Writers Salon | Foster City, CA
Bay Area Generations: Poets & Writers Salon Thursday, February 20, 2020 7-9 pm at Penelope's Coffee & Teas, Foster City A literary salon featuring curated...
$10
Jenny Offill: Weather
Jenny Offill discusses her new novel Weather. Praise for Weather “This is so good. We are not ready nor worthy.”–Ocean Vuong “Jenny Offill conjures entire worlds...
Free
Joan Frank
reads from her new collection of essays, Try To Get Lost Through the author (TM)s travels in Europe and the United States, Try to Get Lost explores the...
Free
Diane Keaton
Academy-award winning actress Diane Keaton has starred in some of the most memorable films of the past forty years, including the Godfather trilogy, Annie Hall, Manhattan, The First Wives...
$59
Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in "The Chapel" at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided...
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