• Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census

    Freight & Salvage 2020 Addison St., Berkeley, CA, United States

    Who 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...

    $10
  • Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census

    Freight & Salvage 2020 Addison St., Berkeley, CA, United States

    Wednesday, 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,...

    $10
  • Alan Brennert

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

    reads from Daughter of Moloka'i, the sequel to his bestselling Moloka'i.

    Free
  • Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series

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

    Lyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to...

    Free
  • Meet Author Jasmine Guillory

    Oakland Public Library - Main Branch 125 - 14th Street, Oakland

    Meet Jasmine Guillory, a writer, lawyer and Oaklander who has earned enthusiastic praise for her recent novels The Wedding Date and The Proposal. New York...

    Free
  • Fourth Friday Formal: George Higgins and Charlotte Innes

    St. Alban's Episcopal Church 1501 Washington Avenue, Albany, CA

    Oakland poet and actor, George Higgins, is a Cave Canem Fellow whose poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Pleiades, Nimrod, and others. About his...

    Free
  • George Higgins & Charlotte Innes

    St. Alban's Episcopal Church 1501 Washington Avenue, Albany, CA

    George 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...

  • THERE 28

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

    THERE 28  will be Friday, February 22, 2019, featuring brilliant Oakland memoirist Faith Adiele, equally amazing memoirist Reyna Grande, and poet MK Chavez, also of...

  • Clearly Meant presents James Cagney

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

    James 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...

    Free
  • Rebecca Gomez Farrell at Alameda Authors Series 3

    Alameda Free Library, Stafford Room 1550 Oak Street, Alameda, ca

    For 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...

    Free
  • Mikhail Iossel w/ Matthew Zapruder – – Notes from Cyberground

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    Tuesday, 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...

  • 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...

    Free
  • James Weeks: Meditations Across the Kings River

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

    About 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...

    Free
  • Children’s Storyteller Series

    Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe 2301 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    CHILDREN'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"....

    Free
  • 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...

  • Teen Poetry Open Mic

    Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe 2301 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    Bring your poems, verses, spoken word pieces and prose to share at our Teen Open Mic, hosted by Vice Youth Poet Laureate - Oakland Samuel...

    Free
  • BAPC Open Poetry Reading

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

    STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE 1320 Addison St., Berkeley, CA   Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave. between Acton & Bonar St. Parking on...

  • Morgan Parker

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

    Tuesday 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,...

  • On the Road Again: Rich With Possibilities

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

    Featured readers: Bruce Bagnell, Jan Steckel, Andrew O. Dugas, Kathleen McClung. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now. Book & Broadside Giveaway....

  • Elinor Lipman

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

    Elinor 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...

  • Tarfia Faizullah

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

    Tarfia 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...

  • Second Sunday Poetry series

    Brit-Marie's Restaraunt 1369 Solano Avenu, Albany, CA

    Second 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,...

  • Helen Oyeyemi – – Gingerbread

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Helen Oyeyemi to discuss Gingerbread, on Saturday, March 16th at 7pm. Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories, beloved novelist Helen...

  • Lea Kirk at Alameda Authors Series 3

    Alameda Free Library 1550 Oak Street, Alameda

    For 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...

    Free
  • Shobha Rao

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

    Tuesday March 19, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room Shobha Rao’s novel Girls Burn Brighter, longlisted for the 2018 Center for Fiction First...