• Jane Hirshfield & Ellery Acres A Benefit Reading for the Sierra Club

    Sierra Club National Headquarters 2101 Webster St, 13th Floor, Oakland, CA - California

    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...

    $20
  • Tamim Ansary discusses The Invention of Yesterday

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

    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

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

    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...

  • Julia Scheeres hosting Q & A with author Mary Merv Ladd

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    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...

    Free
  • Release Party for New great weather for MEDIA Anthology

    Perch Coffee House 440 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    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...

    Free
  • Shanthi Sekaran, Rachel Howard, and Nathaniel Popkin

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    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...

    Free
  • Peter Jan Honigsberg

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

    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 #21: Till Death Do We Part

    Himalayan Flavors 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley

    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...

    Free
  • Oakland | Ivanna Baranova CONFIRMATION BIAS Launch & Reading

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    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,...

    Free
  • The Oakland Poetry Slam Ft. L7

    The Flight Deck 1540 Broadway, Oakland, CA, United States

    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...

    $5 – $10
  • Wendy Taylor Carlisle & Kimi Sugioka

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEY

    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...

    Free
  • David L. Eng: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation

    UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library 30 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA, United States

    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...

    Free
  • Family Sacrifices: Book Talk with Dr. Russell Jeung

    Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St Ste 290, Oakland, CA, United States

    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...

    Free
  • Joyce E. Young at Poetry Express Nov 18

    Poetry Express 1585 University Ave., Berkeley, CA, United States

    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...

    Free
  • East Bay Release for Disasterama! at Badass Bookworm’s Lit Loft

    The Legionnaire Saloon 2272 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA, United States

    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...

    Free
  • Marilyn Chin & Genny Lim

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEY

    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,...

    Free
  • Berkeley Slam with Asha!

    The Starry Plough 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

    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...

    $7 – $10
  • Elaine Sciolino in Conversation with Thad Carhart

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

    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,...

  • Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic

    Nomadic Press/Fairmount 111 Fairmount Ave, Oakland, CA

    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...

    Free
  • Moscow Conceptualism: New Translations from the Russian

    Geballe Room at the Townsend Center for the Humanities 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

    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....

    Free
  • Egypt + Holiday Potluck

    Nomadic Press/Fairmount 111 Fairmount Ave, Oakland, CA

    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...

    Free
  • Marcia Falk & Steven Rood

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    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...

    Free
  • Poets Laureate on Social Justice

    Alibi Bookshop 624 Marin Street, Vallejo

    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....

    Free
  • #we – a talk and reading series of queer perspectives

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    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...

    Free of charge and a hat will be passed
  • Saturday Night Special presents: Obsession

    Nick's Lounge 3218 Adeline St., Berkeley, CA, United States

    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...

    Free
  • Joan Baranow & Joan Aleshire

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    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...

    Free