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  • THERE 19

    The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United States

    Readings + music!

  • Bay Area Generations #52

    The Bellevue Club 525 Bellevue Drive, Oakland, CA, United States

    No one turned away for lack of funds.

    $7 – $10

  • TC Tolbert

    Morrison Library, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Tolbert was recently named Tucson’s Poet Laureate.

  • Richard Silberg

    Claremont Branch, Berkeley Public Library 2940 Benvenue Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Reading + interview.

  • Holloway Reading Series: Alan Felsenthal with Dylan Furcall

    Maude Fife Room, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Alan Felsenthal runs a small press called The Song Cave with Ben Estes. Together, they edited A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr...

    Free

  • Robert Aquinas McNally

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Robert Aquinas McNally   discussing the subject of his new book MODOC WAR: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's Gilded Age from...

    Free

  • Berkeley Arts & Letters: Morgan Jerkins

    Hillside Club 2286 Cedar St, Berkeley, CA, United States

    MORGAN JERKINS presents This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America Wednesday, February 21, 2018, 7:30PM at...

    $20 – $27

  • Lyrics & Dirges: February Love

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Come celebrate love and whatever else at Lyrics & Dirges with five fabulous readers: Fisayo Adeyeye, Candace Eros Díaz, Jacqueline Doyle, Gillian Hamel & Nancy...

    Free

  • Nancy Huang, “Favorite Daughter,” with Aurielle Marie

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

    Nancy Huang will be reading from her first book of poems, Favorite Daughter. Nan Huang (黄洁) is a queer Chinese-American poet. She is a winner of...

    Free

  • Dear Diary Zine Fest Pre-Party!

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

    Oh my goodness, it is almost time for the Bay Area's only PERZINE FEST! We are celebrating by hosting a zine reading the night before...

    Free

  • Saturday Night Special: Shades of Gray

    Nick's Lounge 3218 Adeline St., Berkeley, CA, United States

    February is the sluttiest month. Our theme is "shades of grey." You know what to do. You're welcome ;) As always, we'd love to hear...

    Free

  • Bay Area Generations #54

    The Bellevue Club 525 Bellevue Drive, Oakland, CA, United States

    *Free on-street parking after 6pm * Full bar and refreshments * On major transit lines 6:30 pm –  Writers Mixer at the bar 7:30 pm  – Show...

    $7

  • Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Robbin Légère Henderson discusses the incredible life of her grandmother Matilda Rabinowitz, as told in the illustrated memoir Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman. Featuring a slideshow of Henderson's...

    Free

  • Rosa Alcalá

    Morrison Library, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Alcalá teaches in the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program at the University of Texas-El Paso.

  • Ann Raeff w/ Sylvia Brownrigg

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    About Raeff's new novel, Winter Kept Us Warm.

  • Anne Raeff in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Anne Raeff in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg about Raeff's new novel, Winter Kept Us Warm. "Raeff writes with vivid assurance about Berlin, America, and Morocco, about men...

    Free

  • Get Over It! – An Evening with Iyanla Vanzant

    Paramount Theatre of the Arts 2025 Broadway, Oakland, CA, United States

    In celebration of her 18th book, Get Over It! Thought Therapy for Healing the Hard Stuff (release date: January 30, 2018), Vanzant will stop in...

    $35 – $75

  • Cantíl: Lily Hoang, Kevin Lo, Andrea Marina

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

    Lily Hoang is the author of five books, including A Bestiary (PEN USA Award finalist and winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Nonfiction...

    Free

  • BAPC First Saturday Reading

    Strawberry Creek Lodge 1320 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Come and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around!

  • Bay Area Poets Coalition

    Strawberry Creek Lodge 1320 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    BAPC OPEN POETRY READING   Upcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018:   March 3, April 7, May 5, June 2 3:00 - 5:00 PM    ...

    Free

  • Joyce Carol Oates

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Reads from her new collection of short stories, Beautiful Days, which includes the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien."

  • KPFA Radio 94.1FM present Michio Kaku: The Future of Humanity

    First Congregational Church of Berkeley 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

    In The Future of Humanity, Dr. Michio Kaku —#1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind — traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to...

    $20 – $38

  • Joyce Carol Oates

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Joyce Carol Oates reads from her new collection of short stories, Beautiful Days, which includes the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien." In the diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol...

    Free

  • Pandemonium Press: Sugartown Voices

    The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United States

    An open mic follows the featured readers.