Welcome back! I'm excited to see my SNS family following our annual holiday hiatus, for our first reading of 2020. Our January theme (suggested by...
Norman Fischer is a poet, essayist, and Zen Buddhist priest. The latest of his more than twenty-five prose and poetry titles are the serial poems On...
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Art Cullen in conversation with Michael Pollan Art Cullen is editor of The Storm Lake Times, a family-run newspaper published in Storm...
Discussing Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity. Watch this space for info on ticketing. Wednesday, January 29,...
Please join us for the seventh installment of #we, a talk and performance series of queer perspectives hosted by Richard Loranger. Each event features two...
THE LONGEST RUNNING POETRY SLAM ON THE WEST COAST! Bringing you some of the best poetry from across the world every week since 1999, and...
Jeff Chang gives a talk related to his latest book, We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation. Published in 2016, it was named...
Michael Gottlieb is the author of twenty books, most recently Mostly Clearing, from Roof Books, published in November 2019. Other recent titles include What We...
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...
Poetry and the Senses Program Launch + Celebration With Readings by Indira Allegra, Chiyuma Elliott, and Lyn Hejinian Tuesday, February 4, 2020 5:30 – 7:00pm:...
Ian Brennan in conversation with Kevin Army about Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth at Moe’s Books in Berkeley, CA on Tuesday, February 4th at 7pm....
This lecture addresses how wastes have become globalized, but also how one decision - such as China's decision not to import paper and plastic scrap...
Big Familia follows Juan Gutiérrez, a self-employed single father, as he navigates a tumultuous year of inescapable change. His daughter, Stella, is on the verge of...
Robert Hass’s many awards include the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Additionally, he served as U. S....
Lidia Yuknavitch will read from her new book, VERGE, on Thursday, February 6 at 7:00 PM at East Bay Booksellers. A Q&A and Signing will...
Berkeley Arts & Letters and The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley co-present an evening with Shauna Shapiro, Ph.D. for her new book, Good Morning,...
Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s latest book of poems is Waiting for the Light. Daisy Fried says, “Ostriker so loves the world, its griefs, traumas, praises, mysteries, and joys,...
Andy Warner presents and signs copies of Spring Rain: A Graphic Memoir of Love, Madness, and Revolutions. ABOUT THE BOOK An intimate graphic memoir by a New York...
Our February First Friday Children's Storyteller Series and Teen Poetry Open Mic is filled with literary magic. 6pm-7pm, featuring: - Children's Storytelling with children's book...
A WOMEN-ONLY open mic featuring poet Jan Steckel and singer-songwriter Shazam. Jan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain....
Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa and raised in Southern California. She is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Octopus Museum. She’s the...
Jean Day is a poet, union activist, and editor whose Triumph of Life was published last spring by Insurance Editions. Her Late Human will follow from Ugly Duckling in...
Details: The fourth annual Alameda Authors Series, sponsored by, AAUW Alameda and the Friends of the Alameda Free Library, returns with award winning journalist and...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Meng Jin to read from her new book, Little Gods on Wednesday, February 12tht at 7pm. On the...
Babar in Exile will be ending in May, and for its penultimate installment we proudly feature a lineup of queer readers who will take a...
In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics...
Clearly Meant presents: a poetry reading, interview, and discussion, featuring Rebecca Radner. Rebecca Radner, a Berkeley poet, is the author of What you least expect—selected poems...
Join us as we celebrate the long-awaited and much-anticipated release of Tureeda Mikell's first full-length collection of poetry, Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine. Location...
On February 15, 2020, three renowned poets will join voices to offer and unforgettable evening of poetry in support of the Safe House Education (S.H.E.)...
On February 16th the California Writers Club – Berkeley branch welcomes award-winning poet and activist Jan Steckel as a featured guest of the club. Steckel...