East Bay

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Alana Apfel to the store to discuss and sign Birth Work as Care Work: Stories from Activist Birth Communities.

As part of Poetry Month, Pegasus Books and Poetry Flash present Drew Dillhunt and Angela Hume.

Revenue agent and/or grim reaper costumes encouraged. Free, though donations of cash and beer will be accepted.

She is a poetry editor for Rivet and was an Artist In Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts.

Pegasus Books presents Paolo Bacigalupi, on his paperback tour for The Water Knife.

Free and open to the public.

We will celebrate the mighty power of small presses as they read from their new and forthcoming works.

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Esmé Weijun Wang and Ranbir Singh Sidhu to the store to discuss and compare their two debut novels.

Pegasus on Solano's monthly story time for adults celebrates National Poetry Month. Join us for an evening of readings by Pegasus employees and Pegasus friends, featuring our favorite poems as well as original work.

Issue #5 will be available for sale, hot and fresh off the printers (and screen printer), and there will be food and drink for purchase with music to follow.

This Event is at all Three Pegasus Locations!

Willis Barnstone’s new book of poems is Mexico in My Heart: New and Selected Poems + Willis’s son, Tony Barnstone’s new book of poems is Pulp Sonnets.

One of the year’s most lively events!

Poetry Readings

Featured readers: Fred Dodsworth • Rafael Jesús González • Rosa Lane • Nina Lindsay. On guitar: Barry Ebner.

Annual Alumni and Faculty Reading.

Come help us celebrate the publication of Humble Pie Volume 13, a whale of an issue, with readings by the authors included in this edition.

Come on out for our 3rd annual night of biblio-mania!

Story Hour in the Library celebrates the writers in our campus community with an annual student reading.

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

Admission is FREE. Wine, Lagunitas beer, and snacks will be served.

Come and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around.

Readings + a solo exhibition

The acclaimed author of Red Hook Road, Bad Mother, Daughter’s Keeper, and the “Mommy Track Mysteries” series joins us at the Berkeley Public Library North Branch to talk about her latest novel, Love and Treasure.

Discussing the process of writing.

Join us as we celebrate the publication of Emily Carr’s poetry collection, WHOSOEVER HAS LET A MINOTAUR ENTER THEM, OR A SONNET.

Elizabeth Alford has always had an on-again-off-again relationship with poetry; but in the wake of her graduation from CSU East Bay, she recently announced that they are now going steady (much to everyone’s relief)

Followed by open mic.