Ashley Dawson
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statesdiscussing the subject of his new book Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change from Verso Books...
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Flash Fiction Forum Reading Series:
Works Gallery 364 S. Market St., San Jose, CA, United Stateshttp://www.flashfictionforum.com/events/
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Roman Muradov
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesRoman Muradov discusses his new book, On Doing Nothing: Finding Inspiration in Idleness. Praise for On Doing Nothing “Roman Muradov’s whimsical, clever, and companionable book On Doing...
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Melissa Broder / The Pisces
The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United StatesThe Bindery hosts an evening with So Sad Today author Melissa Broder reading from her anticipated debut novel, The Pisces. With her in conversation is The Millions editor, Lydia Kiesling...
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MARX NOW: Karl Marx @ 200 – A Reading & Discussion
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesOpening Statement by Jale Yoldas (Goethe Institut San Francisco) with guest appearances by Alan Black, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, and Richard Walker. Moderator Frederick Young On the occasion of the 200th Anniversary of...
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Clemantine Wamariya / The Girl Who Smiled Beads
The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United StatesThe Bindery hosts Clemantine Wamariya for her extraordinary debut, The Girl Who Smiled Beads, and her coauthor Elizabeth Weil, who collaborated intimately with Clemantine to write this luminescent book. Clemantine...
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Kent Harrington
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesKent Harrington discusses his new novel, Last Ferry Home, with Kevin Hunsanger. Praise for Kent Harrington "Strong, hard-edged stuff by a writer in complete control of...
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Jennifer Firestone and Tonya M. Foster
Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesJennifer Firestone is the author of five books of poetry and four chapbooks,including Story (Ugly Duckling Presse, forthcoming),Ten, (BlazeVOX , forthcoming), Gates & Fields (Belladonna* Collaborative), Swimming Pool(DoubleCross Press), Flashes (Shearsman Books), Holiday (Shearsman Books), Waves (Portable...
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Berkeley Poetry Review Issue 48 Release Party
E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United StatesBerkeley Poetry Review will be holding a release party for issue 48 of our annual poetry journal. The party will be hosted by E.M. Wolfman...
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After Hours: 7th Annual Poetry World Series
Mill Valley Public Library 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley , CA, United StatesFriday, May 11th - 7:00pm Main Reading Room Daniel Handler returns to emcee as baseball and poetry collide to create a fabulous and wacky literary event. Two...
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Reading – Eckes, Seidenberg, Spencer Smith
Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesEckes, Seidenberg, and Spencer Smith
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Brenda Hillman and giovanni singleton
Pt. Reyes Books 11315 CA-1, Pt. Reyes Station, CA, United StatesBrenda Hillman and Giovanni Singleton discuss recent work and the role poets can play as activists. About the poets: Brenda Hillman is an activist, writer, editor,...
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5th Annual Ecopoetry Festival at the John Muir House
John Muir House 4202 Alhambra Avenue, Martinez, CA, CA, United StatesThe Fifth Annual Ecopoetry Festival will feature two poet laureates of Central Valley cities, along with special guests. Indigo Moor, current laureate of Sacramento, and...
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Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesJoin us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets, artists, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. To participate in...
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Virginia Eubanks talks about her book: Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesVirginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is also the author of Digital Dead End: Fighting for...
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Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich / The Fact of a Body
The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United StatesThe Bindery hosts Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich for her murder-memoir ten years in the making, The Fact of a Body. Please join us! When she applied to Harvard Law School,...
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The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night Featuring Alan Harris
PianoFight 144 Taylor St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesHosted by Jennifer Barone, Ingrid Keir, live jazz with Daniel Heffez, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. Open Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 6:45pm – 3min time limit, pick...
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Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat by Jonathan Kauffman
Mechanics Institute 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThis enlightening narrative history—an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan— traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements,...
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Perfectly Queer Plus Book Reading “Murderous Fiction: 3 Novels About Death”
Dog Eared Books Castro 489 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, United StatesVisiting author James Han Mattson joins local authors Andrew Demcak and Tim Floreen at a Perfectly Queer Plus San Francisco book reading, "Murderous Fiction: 3...
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Carmen Giménez Smith
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesCarmen Giménez Smith Tuesday, May 15, 2018, 7:00 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco celebrating the release of Cruel Futures City...
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Genny Lim, Kitty Tsui and Nellie Wong w/Bill Crossman on piano
Bird & Beckett Books and Records 653 Chenery St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesNellie Wong was born and raised in Oakland. A long-time activist for radical social change and a retired office worker, Nellie was honored by Oakland...
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Rahna Reiko Rizzuto / Shadow Child
The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United StatesThe Bindery hosts Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (Hiroshima in the Morning and Why She Left Us) for her new novel, Shadow Child. Please join us! Shadow Child is a gorgeous novel about...
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Julia Dixon Evans
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesJulia Dixon Evans discusses her new novel, How to Set Yourself on Fire. PRAISE FOR HOW TO SET YOURSELF ON FIRE “How to Set Yourself on Fire is...
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Mark Greenside
Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesMark Greenside Reads from (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living, a sequel of sorts to I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do), about which the San...
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Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island
Book Passage San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United StatesWild Geese Sorrow is based upon new translations of the mostly anonymous poems carved into the men’s barracks walls at the Angel Island Immigration Station....
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Keep Begin Detach: Yoko Ono
E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United StatesKeep Begin Detach: Multimedia Essays Come to EM Wolfman for an exploration of text and image, music and silence, meditation and performance. Inspired by Yoko...
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radical poesies: Steven Seidenberg + A’aron Heard + Tongo Eisen-Martin
Institute Of advanced Uncertainty [I.O.U.] 296 Ivy Street, btwn. Gough and Franklin, San Franciscoradical poesies Steven Seidenberg + A’aron Heard + Tongo Eisen-Martin Curated by Tongo Eisen-Martin Wednesday! May 16th Doors 6:30PM Program7PM FREE
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Michelle Tea
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesMichelle Tea celebrating the release of her new book Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms from Feminist Press The razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas, a doomed...
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Townsend Walker / 3 Women, 4 Towns, 5 Bodies
The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United StatesThe Bindery hosts Townsend Walker in conversation withMartha Conway about his new short story collection, 3 Women, 4 Towns, 5 Bodies. Townsend will read a story from the collection and...
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Poets giovanni singleton and Carmen Gimenez Smith
Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesBorn in New York, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from...
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