Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 6:30pm Jane Hirshfield & Ellery Acres A Benefit Reading for the Sierra Club 2101 Webster St., 13th Floor, Oakland Poems...
Wednesday, November 6, 730pm Pegasus Books Downtown Tamim Ansary discusses and signs copies of The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and...
Monica Youn is the author of three books of poems, most recently BLACKACRE (2016), which won the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America...
Mary Ladd will co-host a book-signing and Q&A with author and journalist Julia Scheeres. The Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book, delivered...
Perch Coffee House and great weather for MEDIA present an inspiring evening of cutting edge poets and prose writers from across the Bay Area and...
Parents and Children, Hope and Despair: Three Novels Join Wolfman Books for an evening of fiction with Shanthi Sekaran (Lucky Boy), Rachel Howard (The Risk...
About A Marvelous Life The comprehensive biography of STAN LEE, father of SPIDER-MAN and THE AVENGERS, beloved comic book writer and editor, and former president and...
Mary Ladd will co-host a book-signing and Q&A with author Sarah Henry. The Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book, delivered with bold...
Peter Jan Honigsberg launches his new book A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices of Guantánamo, containing firsthand testimonies from Guantánamo Bay, inspiring future generations to never repeat...
Babar in Exile continues it’s November tradition with “Till Death Do We Part”, a reading that celebrates our vociferous dead and the living who go...
Since November 19th Guatemalan-Slovak poet Ivanna Baranova has been touring across Canada and the US with her debut full-length poetry collection CONFIRMATION BIAS (Metatron Press,...
We're back and better than ever! Come join us at our new venue, The Flight Deck, conveniently located in Downtown Oakland near 19th St BART...
WENDY TAYLOR CARLISLE’s new book is The Mercy of Traffic. Tony Hoagland said, “Wendy Carlisle’s poems come out wearing their red shoes and ready to...
In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation David L. Eng draws on psychoanalytic case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore how first- and second-generation...
The first book based on national survey data on Asian American religious practices, Family Sacrifices is a seminal text on the fastest-growing racial group in...
Open Mic + free (except for restaurant purchases) 7pm. 11/18/2019 Joyce E. Young is the author of How it Happens, published by Nomadic Press. Her...
Join us for the East Bay release of "Disasterama", Alvin Orloff's fantabulous new memoir of '90's SF wild club kid, AIDS-activism, agitprop performance, and homocore...
I am both thrilled & nervous to announce the book release party for 💥Big Familia!! on November 19 at East Bay Booksellers / Diesel. It's...
CO-SPONSORED BY PEN WEST MARILYN CHIN's new book of poems is A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems. Adrienne Rich said,...
Bringing you some of the best poetry from across the world every week since 1999, and third in the nation at the 2015 National Poetry...
Elaine Sciolino in Conversation with Thad Carhart (and introduced by L. John Harris) discussing Sciolino's new book The Seine: The River that Made Paris. A soulful,...
A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in "The Chapel" at Nomadic Press. Donations will be...
Official Site: http://slavic.berkeley.edu/moscow-conceptualism-new-translations-from-the-russian/ A spate of new translations is bringing the writers and artists of Moscow Conceptualism to an English-language readership for the first time....
Friday, November 22 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue (btw Haste and Dwight Way), Berkeley The In Common Writers Series moves across the Bay, to...
Holidays can be difficult for many of us. Join us in Fellowship Hall (at the Oakland Peace Center—entrance off of 29th Street) as we band...
MARCIA FALK’s new book is Inner East: Illuminated Poems and Blessings, which contains her own artwork side-by-side with her poetry and new blessings in English...
Poets Laureate on Social Justice at Alibi Bookshop in downtown Vallejo, California. Part of the tour for Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice....
Please join us for the sixth installment of #we, a talk and reading series of queer perspectives hosted by Richard Loranger. Each event features two...
Don't miss the last SNS of the year! The last (fifth!) Saturday of November, right after Thanksgiving, we're celebrating OBSESSION. Every writer is obsessed with...
This reading will feature a festive book launch for JOAN BARANOW’s new book of poems, In the Next Life. Alicia Suskin Ostriker says, “The lilt...