Please join Ivy Anderson and Devon Angus as they discuss Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute, winner of the 2015 California Historical Society Book Award.
A conversation with Elif Batuman and Yiyun Li.
Peg Alford Pursell presents her book Show Her a Flower, a Bid, a Shadow.
Celebrating the release of his new collection of stories The World to Come.
Panel of graphic novelists discussion and reading.
Featuring readings by Emji Speero and Shelley Wong, with music by Blowdryer Punk Soul (with Jennifer Blowdryer + Michelle Gonazales).
More info coming soon!
Jim Shephard in conversation with Ron Hansen.
Neighborhood authors present their books to the public.
Poetry readings
Open mic on the theme "Get off my lawn".
Bi-Monthly LIMINAL Showcase of 10-15 readers and performers.
Kerouac and Lamantia: A Poetics Of The Inner Self
Excerpts from journals kept through the deportation process, as well as a panel discussion about deportation within Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities in Oakland
Farid Matyk and Tonya Foster as part of a Special Edition Fresh & Best poetry reading series.
Terry Tarnoff presents his book, The Reflectionist.
Jim Shepard presents his new collection, The World to Come.
Mills College presents Farid Matuk.
Informal community reading series
Jon Raymond discusses his new novel, Freebird, with Zoetrope's Michael Ray.
Night one of an annual Emerging Writers Festival
Sarah Andersen presents her new book Big Mushy Happy Lump
Night two of the Emerging Writers Festival, featured writers participate in a Q&A.
This is the poetry of the San Francisco Renaissance of the 50s, reconsidered as literature.
Sci-fi/Fantasy reading with Loren Rhoads and S.G. Browne
Night 2 of the Emerging Writers Festival. Featuring Vanessa Hua, sam Sax, and Mike Scalise
Victor Lodato presents his new book Edgar and Lucy
Margaret Randall returns to The Poetry Center after a hiatus of fifty years — she appeared here, reading her poetry, in December 1966, sharing the stage with Mexican poet Sergio Mondragon.
Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Thursday, March 30th at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Lauren Grodstein, reading from and discussing her book Our Short History.
Subterranean SF Reading Series celebrates the release of The Painted Gun by Bradley Spinelli