Jan Steckel at Poetry Express
Himalayan Flavors 1585 University Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesJan Steckel will read from her new poetry book Like Flesh Covers Bone at Poetry Express, hosted by Bruce Bagnell, with open mic.
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David Marriott
Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United StatesTuesday February 19, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room David Marriott is originally from the UK, but now lives in Oakland, California....
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Sandy Allen in conversation with Rahawa Haile – – A Kind of Miraculous Paradise
East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, OaklandEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Sandy Allen to discuss A Kind of Miraculous Paradise, on Tuesday, February 19th at 7pm. She will joined in conversation by friend of the store Rahawa...
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Dani Shapiro
Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesDani Shapiro returns to Mrs. Dalloway's to present Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love. "Identity is frail business, and in her searing story, Dani...
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Poetry at Pegasus: GennaRose Nethercott and Miriam Bird Greenberg
Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United StatesGennaRose Nethercott’s book The Lumberjack’s Dove (Ecco/HarperCollins) was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series for 2017. She is also the lyricist...
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Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census
Freight & Salvage 2020 Addison St., Berkeley, CA, United StatesWho Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse How are individuals and groups racially classified, what...
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Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census
Freight & Salvage 2020 Addison St., Berkeley, CA, United StatesWednesday, February 20, 2019 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse How are individuals and groups racially classified, what are the meanings attached to different racial categories,...
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Alan Brennert
Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United Statesreads from Daughter of Moloka'i, the sequel to his bestselling Moloka'i.
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Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United StatesLyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to...
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Meet Author Jasmine Guillory
Oakland Public Library - Main Branch 125 - 14th Street, OaklandMeet Jasmine Guillory, a writer, lawyer and Oaklander who has earned enthusiastic praise for her recent novels The Wedding Date and The Proposal. New York...
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Fourth Friday Formal: George Higgins and Charlotte Innes
St. Alban's Episcopal Church 1501 Washington Avenue, Albany, CAOakland poet and actor, George Higgins, is a Cave Canem Fellow whose poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Pleiades, Nimrod, and others. About his...
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George Higgins & Charlotte Innes
St. Alban's Episcopal Church 1501 Washington Avenue, Albany, CAGeorge Higgins is an Oakland poet and actor. About his first book There, There (White Violet Press, 2013), Joan Aleshire wrote, “this book deepens our knowledge of how...
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THERE 28
The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United StatesTHERE 28 will be Friday, February 22, 2019, featuring brilliant Oakland memoirist Faith Adiele, equally amazing memoirist Reyna Grande, and poet MK Chavez, also of...
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Clearly Meant presents James Cagney
Claremont Branch, Berkeley Public Library 2940 Benvenue Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesJames Cagney is a poet from Oakland. He has performed in venues and museums throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. His first book, Black...
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Rebecca Gomez Farrell at Alameda Authors Series 3
Alameda Free Library, Stafford Room 1550 Oak Street, Alameda, caFor the third year, AAUW Alameda presents a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda and nearby, now co-sponsored by...
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Mikhail Iossel w/ Matthew Zapruder – – Notes from Cyberground
East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, OaklandTuesday, February 26 7:00pm EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Mikhail Iossel to discuss his new new book Notes From Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling, on Tuesday, February 26th...
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Folkland Book Club featuring books from Small Press Distribution
Oakland Public Library - Main Branch 125 - 14th Street, OaklandJoin us for a monthly book club featuring titles from Small Press Distribution. Pick up a free copy of our February book at the January...
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Jan Steckel and Tom Odegard at #we
The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United States#we presents Tom Odegard speaking on "Being Intersex" and reading poetry on the subject, and Jan Steckel speaking on “Bi Babes in the Woods” and reading...
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James Weeks: Meditations Across the Kings River
Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United StatesAbout the Book Tens of thousands of spiritual seekers around the world have been touched by James Weeks’s online essays and affirmations. Now in book...
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Children’s Storyteller Series
Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe 2301 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, United StatesCHILDREN'S STORYTELLER SERIES (6-7pm) Come enjoy a night with Adonal Foyle (Former Golden State Warriors NBA Player) reading from his children's book series "Too-Tall Foyle"....
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What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV Book Release Party
E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States***Friday, March 1st, Wolfman Books, Downtown Oakland, 7:00pm*** The “What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV” Book Release Party Featuring Readings By Alec West Philip...
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Teen Poetry Open Mic
Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe 2301 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, United StatesBring your poems, verses, spoken word pieces and prose to share at our Teen Open Mic, hosted by Vice Youth Poet Laureate - Oakland Samuel...
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BAPC Open Poetry Reading
Strawberry Creek Lodge 1320 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE 1320 Addison St., Berkeley, CA Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave. between Acton & Bonar St. Parking on...
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Poetry Flash presents a reading by Keith Emmons, Moondrifter Reverie, and Lisa Rosenberg, A Different Physics
East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, OaklandPoetry Flash presents a reading by Keith Emmons, Moondrifter Reverie, and Lisa Rosenberg, A Different Physics, East Bay Booksellers, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, wheelchair accessible, 3:00 (510/653-9965, ebbooksellers.com)
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Morgan Parker
Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United StatesTuesday March 5, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room Morgan Parker’s latest poetry collection Magical Negro delves into issues of ancestral trauma, loneliness, sexuality,...
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On the Road Again: Rich With Possibilities
The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United StatesFeatured readers: Bruce Bagnell, Jan Steckel, Andrew O. Dugas, Kathleen McClung. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now. Book & Broadside Giveaway....
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Elinor Lipman
Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesElinor Lipman returns to Mrs. Dalloway's to celebrate the publication of her latest novel, Good Riddance, in which one woman's trash becomes another woman's treasure, with deliriously...
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Tarfia Faizullah
Morrison Library, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesTarfia Faizullah is the author of REGISTERS OF ILLUMINATED VILLAGES (Graywolf Press, 2018), and SEAM (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), winner of a VIDA Award, a GLCA New...
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Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Meryl Natchez, Francesca Bell, and William Brewer, curated by Barb Reynolds
Brit-Marie's Restaraunt 1369 Solano Avenu, Albany, CASecond Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Meryl Natchez, Francesca Bell, and William Brewer, curated by Barb Reynolds, Britt-Marie's Restaurant, 1369 Solano Avenue, Albany,...
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Second Sunday Poetry series
Brit-Marie's Restaraunt 1369 Solano Avenu, Albany, CASecond Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Meryl Natchez, Francesca Bell, and William Brewer, curated by Barb Reynolds, Britt-Marie's Restaurant, 1369 Solano Avenue, Albany,...