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Jon Mooallem / This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesBooksmith hosts Jon Mooallem (Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America) for his new book This Is Chance!:...
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Aaron Shurin: The Blue Absolute
Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave, BerkeleyAaron Shurin is the author of fourteen books of poetry and prose, most recently The Blue Absolute, just out from Nightboat Books. Other works include:...
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Escape From Quarantine Reading – a weekly online thing
a weekly digital gathering and poetry reading. join our weekly zoom chat to meet with friends without having to leave your house. this is a...
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Jon Mooallem in conversation with Nellie Bowles / This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
Booksmith hosts Jon Mooallem (Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America) for his new book This Is Chance!: The...
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A [quarantined] Room of One’s Own- FICTION Night
A Room of One’s Own- Virtual Reading Series- FICTION night If you, like the rest of us, are feeling isolated with a sudden and vast...
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Archive 48 Release Party: The Earthly Days of Jose Revueltas
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesBinational publisher Archive 48, dedicated to Mexican and U.S. literature, launches its U.S. wing with the first-ever English translation of an important work by Jose...
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Linda Sarsour / We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders
PLEASE NOTE: Due to public health concerns around the coronavirus, this will be a virtual event live-streamed on our Facebook page. Please join us! Berkeley...
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Patrice Vecchione, My Shouting, Shattered, Whispering Voice at Bookshop Santa Cruz
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United Statesookshop welcomes acclaimed local poet, editor, and teacher Patrice Vecchione (Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience) for a celebration of her newest...
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Alexandra Chang
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesAlexandra Chang discusses her debut novel, Days of Distraction. Praise for Days of Distraction “A startlingly original and deeply moving debut—kaleidoscopic, funny, heart-rending, beautifully observed, and...
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Alexandra Chang at Green Apple Books
Green Apple Books 9th Avenue 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United StatesAlexandra Chang discusses her debut novel, Days of Distraction. Praise for Days of Distraction “A startlingly original and deeply moving debut—kaleidoscopic, funny, heart-rending, beautifully observed, and...
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Holloway Reading Series: A Memorial for Sean Bonney
Maude Fife Room, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFree -
Lyric & Dirges: Ether Edition #1
Join us for the launching of Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition We have a new format and the same literary wonderland. Our inaugural virtual reading...
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Beth Lisick
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statesreads from Edie On The Green Screen: A Novel published by 7.13 Books City Lights welcomes back Beth Lisick to celebrate her debut novel from...
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Jane Hirshfield / Ledger
Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United Statesreads from her new volume of poetry Ledger, a book of personal, ecological, and political reckoning from the internationally renowned poet named "among the modern masters" (Washington Post). Wednesday,...
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Hilary Leichter, Mary South, Rita Bullwinkel, & R.O. Kwon
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesHilary Leichter and Mary South discuss their new works, Temporary and You Will Never Be Forgotten, with Rita Bullwinkel and R.O. Kwon. Praise for Temporary “A narrative so...
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Lunch Poems: Mary Jo Bang
Morrison Library, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesMary Jo Bang is the author of eight books of poems—including A Doll For Throwing, Louise in Love, The Last Two Seconds, and Elegy, which received the National Book...
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Screenside Chat #1: Thea Matthews, MK Chavez, JP Howard
Join us for our first Screenside Chat, a new limited-run series where Nomadic Press partners with other publishers to bring you "fireside chat"-esque engaging readings...
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Canceled: Cowboy & Other Poems: Alejandro Albarrán Polanco and Rachel Galvin
Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesMexican poet Alejandro Albarrán Polanco joins poet and translator Rachel Galvin to talk about his chapbook, Cowboy & Other Poems, from Ugly Duckling Presse. About Cowboy...
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YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES… ONLINE!
You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes Online! an ONLINE Open Mic w/Ned Buskirk & the You're Going to Die Team! Yeah. It's...
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Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statesreading from The Mountains Sing from Workman Publishing Company "An epic account of Việt Nam's painful 20th century history, both vast in scope and intimate...
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Carolyn Forche, In the Lateness of the World at Bookshop Santa Cruz
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome celebrated poet Carolyn Forché for a reading and signing of In the Lateness of the World—her new poetry collection of uncanny...
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Monica Sok: A Nail the Evening Hangs On
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesMonica Sok discusses her debut poetry collection, A Nail the Evening Hangs On, with Barbara Jane Reyes. Praise for A Nail the Evening Hangs On “Sok’s...
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Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #3
FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Donate (only if you can swing it) by clicking on the "ticket" link or dropping donations via the $Cash app to...
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Bess Kalb / Nobody Will Tell You This But Me
Booksmith hosts a live-stream with Bess Kalb for her new book Nobody Will Tell You This but Me. Please join us … we'll be streaming on our Facebook page!...
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Luiza, Colleen, and Audra Have a Book Party at Wolfman Books
E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United StatesLuiza Flynn-Goodlett, winner of the Charlotte Mew Prize, and Colleen McKee and Audra Puchalski, finalists for the Charlotte Mew Prize, read from their chapbooks, all...
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Bay Area Poets Coalition
Strawberry Creek Lodge 1320 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE 1320 Addison St., Berkeley, CA Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave. between Acton & Bonar St. Parking on...
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Smack Dab Queer Open Mic Online!
We are giving ONLINE Smack Dab Queer & Trans Open Mic a try. Meet us on Zoom at our usual time :) Smack Dab Queer...
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Rebecca Dinerstein Knight / Hex
The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United StatesThe Bindery hosts Rebecca Dinerstein Knight (The Sunlit Night) for her new novel Hex. Please join us! Nell Barber, an expelled PhD candidate in biological science, is exploring the...
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D. A. Powell and Paola Capó-García
Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave, BerkeleyPaola Capó-García is the author of CLAP FOR ME THAT’S NOT ME (Rescue Press, 2018), selected by D.A. Powell as the winner of Rescue Press'...
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