MFA Alumni Reading Featuring mai c. doan & Aiden Thomas

Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland

Reception at 5:15 pm for newly admitted Mills graduate students, followed by readings. mai c. doan is poet and writer from Southern California. Her first...

Free

Benicia First Tuesday Poets

Benicia Public Library 150 East L St., Benicia

Benicia Public Library in the Dona Benicia Room. Hosted by Benicia Poet Laureate Tom Stanton. Mystery Poet followed by open mic! Founded in 2003.

Free

Ellen Bass, Indigo at Bookshop Santa Cruz

Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Indigo merges elegy and praise poem in an exploration of life's complex grey areas. Whether her subject is oysters, high heels, a pork chop, a beloved...

Free

C Pam Zhang: How Much of These Hills is Gold

Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco

C Pam Zhang discusses her debut novel How Much of These Hills is Gold. Praise for How Much of These Hills is Gold "C Pam Zhang's...

Free