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  • Saturday Night Special: A “Musical” Open Mic

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

    FREE! But bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to, because there's a 1-drink minimum!)

  • Marvin R. Hiemstra + Julian Mithra

    Nomadic Press 2926 Foothill Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    Join us for a very special evening of readings with Marvin R. Hiemstra and Julian Mithra. With musical guest Hazy Loper.

  • Bay Area Generations #36

    Berkeley City Club 2315 Durant Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    $7.00 suggested donation. $10.00 with chapbook.

    $7

  • Lunch Poems Series Kick-Off

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

    This event features distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines introducing and reading a favorite poem.

  • Maggie Tokuda-Hall: Also an Octopus

    Books Inc. Berkeley 1491 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Join Books Inc. in Berkeley for a launch party celebrating former Books Inc. bookseller Maggie Tokuda-Hall's adorable debut picture book, Also an Octopus!

  • Cassandra Dallett + Natasha Dennerstein

    Nomadic Press 2926 Foothill Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    Donations will be called for throughout the night, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

  • Overexposure Open Mic

    Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Sign-up starts at 7.

  • Beyond Words: An Evening of Jazz + Poetry

    California Jazz Conservatory 2087 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Bay Area impresario and haiku poet Amos White and CJC's Dillon Vado present an evening that promises to stretch the imagination in musical expression.

  • Hot! New Books!

    Spice Monkey 1628 Webster St, Oakland, CA, United States

    An open mic follows the featured readers.

  • Annual Faculty Reading

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

    Free readings!

  • NoViolet Bulawayo

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

    First reading of the season!

  • Alan Bern w/ Lucinda Weaver

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Bern reads from the book as he and dancer/choreographer Lucinda Weaver perform a dance/poetry collaboration based on a poem from the book.

  • A collaboration w/ Commune Editions

    Studio One Arts Center 365 45th Street, Oakland, CA, United States

    Snacks, Lagunitas beer and wine will be served!

  • Rumi’s Caravan

    Humanist Hall 390 27th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    Rumi's Caravan returns to Oakland!

    $15 – $25

  • Susanne Dyckman + Elizabeth Robinson

    DIESEL, A Bookstore 5433 College Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    Copies of A Dark Ordinary and On Ghosts will be available for purchase at the event.

  • Julia Claiborne Johnson

    DIESEL, A Bookstore 5433 College Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    Be Frank with Me is her fiction debut.

  • Zach Wyner

    DIESEL, A Bookstore 5433 College Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Zach Wyner, to the store to discuss and sign his new novel, What We Never Had.

  • Gayle Forman

    Book Passage San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Gayle Forman is a bestselling, award-winning author of young adult novels.

  • Poetry Express: James Cagney

    Himalayan Flavors 1585 University Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Cave Canem fellow James Cagney is a poet and writer from Oakland.

  • Lee Marrs

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

    Pegasus Books Downtown welcomes Lee Marrs, one of the founding mommies of the Wimmen’s Comix Collective, for the launch of her long-awaited collection "The Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge, Girl Blimp".

  • Lee Marrs

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

    Pegasus Books Downtown welcomes Lee Marrs, one of the founding mommies of the Wimmen’s Comix Collective, for the launch of her long-awaited collection "The Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge, Girl Blimp".

  • Mary Szybist

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

    Free reading!

  • Tamer Mostafa, Zack Haber, + Genie Gratto

    Aggregate Space Gallery 801 W Grand Ave, Oakland , CA, United States

    Special event for MONDAY NIGHT journal celebrating online issue 15.

  • LeAnne Howe + Marc Anthony Richardson

    Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    A night of fantastic readings!

  • Riad Sattouf

    DIESEL, A Bookstore 5433 College Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    Riad Sattouf to the store to discuss and sign his graphic memoir, The Arab of the Future 2: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1984-1985.

  • Susan Faludi w/ Peggy Orenstein

    Books Inc. Berkeley 1491 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Susan Faludi discusses her transcendent and thought provoking memoir, In the Darkroom.

  • Tessa Hadley

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

    Reading from her marvelous novel, The Past, in which three sisters, a brother, and their children assemble at their country house.