AUTHOR Raquel Salas Rivera Raquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. They are the author of while they sleep (under the bed is another...
Liska Jacobs discusses her new novel, The Worst Kind of Want with Rita Bullwinkel. About The Worst Kind of Want A trip to Italy reignites a woman’s desires...
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,...
Wednesday, November 20, 7:30 pm Pegasus Books Downtown Lyrics & Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning...
Feature: Linda Lappin Willow Glen Library 1157 Minnesota Avenue, San José, CA, 95125 (408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361 Free and open to the public. Linda...
celebrating two new books The President of Desolation & Other Poems from Black Widow Press The Mystery of False Attachments from Word Palace Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally...
Thursday, November 21 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series welcomes two outstanding Latina poets,...
Eric Thurm joins us to discuss his new book, Avidly Reads Board Games. Historic board games including, Busted!, a game from the 1970s about trying to start...
Join us to celebrate the release of The Best Small Fictions 2019 with readings by Lori Sambol Brody, Natalie Hernandez, Joy Lanzendorfer, Kim Magowan, J.L. Montavon, and Kara...
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...
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...
IN CELEBRATION OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE 6TH OVERTHROWING CAPITALISM ANTHOLOGY MAHNAZ BADIHIAN JIM NORMINGTON JOHN CURL BARBARA PASCHKE NELLIE WONG RAFAEL JESUS GONZALEZ LYNNE BARNES...
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...
DS Marriot is a poet and critic, and Professor in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and in...
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....
Stories are powerful and they allow us to understand our common humanity. Manny's, in partnership with Mothers on the March, is putting together an events...
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...
ENDURING STRUGGLE, ENDURING SPIRITS: Remembering Steve Abbott and Karl Tierney on World AIDS Day Location: Latino/Hispanic meeting room, Lower Level, San Francisco Public Library, 100...
reading from her new collection of poetry Camille Scarlett Sabet is a London based poet and performer. Her poetry has been featured in GQ, Tatler, Constellation Magazine, The Violet Book and Dazed...
Readings by Daniel Ari, Colby Cotton, Caroline Goodwin, and Ari Moskowitz Hosted by Peter Kline Daniel Ari serves as poet laureate of Richmond, California and...
Beasts of Bourbon returns with a stellar lineup of kick ass writers poets and musicians to close out the New Year with it's second edition...
The holidays are a tinsel covered monster, roughly entangled in twinkling lights, half-choked on a nutcracker doll. The kind of slavering nog-soaked beast that comes...
This event had been planned for some time as a launch party for David King's long-overdue monograph featuring his iconic stencil-only designs. Sadly, David passed...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome The Bushwick Book Club Oakland on Sunday, November 3rd, from 6:30-8 pm (doors at 6). **Please Note** This event will take...
Hosted by Solomon Rino with readings by George Albon, Laura Moriarty, Joseph Lease, and Norma Cole Second Stutter is a San Francisco based literary journal...
Mimi Lok discusses her new book, Last Of Her Name, with Rachel Khong. Praise for Last Of Her Name "Last of Her Name is a mesmerizing and...