East Bay

Her poems are published in Iodine, Sleet and Poeming Pigeons, among others.

Readings are free + open to the public.

Come hear poetic reflections on the news from legendary writers.

BEAST CRAWL is Uptown Oakland's annual free literary festival featuring more than 200 writers in a single night!

For Beast Crawl 2017 we're bringing together some of our favorite writers to rock the festival at the Telegraph Beer Garden!

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

An evening to celebrate new books from Robert Hass and Matthew Zapruder, introduction by Brenda Hillman.

Please join us on Friday, September 8th @ 7:30 pm to celebrate the release of Paul Ebenkamp's Parallel Realism.

singleton is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts.

This is the East Bay book launch for A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems by Victor Serge, translated and edited by James Brook (PM Press).

Jac Jemc will read from her new novel THE GRIP OF IT (FSG Originals) and discuss with Eliza Smith.

Reading from Days Without End, winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award (his second) and just released in paperback.

Readings + music!

Adrienne Raphel is the author of What Was It For (Rescue Press, 2017).

Alex Walton is currently a PhD student at UC Berkeley. He was a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center.

What if we told you two poets who put out two of our favorite books of 2016 were gonna read together?!

Lenore Weiss is enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts Program at San Francisco State University.

Cottrell's work has appeared in BOMB, Gulf Coast, and Black Warrior Review. She lives in New York.

Anne Korkeakivi shares her critically-acclaimed new novel, Shining Sea.

The emcee for the night will be the one and only NO 'HARE (Isobel O'Hare and Christine No.)

Dave Holt, relocated to the Bay Area from Toronto, Canada, his place of birth, to follow his dream of becoming a successful songwriter.

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Santiago Gamboa to the store to read and sign, Return to the Dark Valley.

local LGBTQ authors!

Celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward presents bone, a poignant collection of autobiographical poems about the heart, life, and the inner self.

Pushcart Prize-nominated writer Margaret Wilkerson Sexton shares her much-buzzed debut novel, A Kind of Freedom.

Join us! Take to the page and embrace "impermanence." Then bring us your creation.

Join us to celebrate the release of Lillian Howan's novel The Charm Buyers.

Readings + open mic!