• Eastwind’s End of Year Celebration!

    Eastwind Books of Berkeley 2066 University Ave., Berkeley, CA, United States

    Celebrate the end of the year with friends at Eastwind Books of Berkeley! We would like to thank our dedicated volunteers, customers, and community members...

    Free
  • Babylon Salon: Jamel Brinkley and Chia-Chia Lin: Winter 2019

    The Armory Club 1799 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    presents our Winter Reading Saturday, Dec 7, 2019, 6.00 pm  at The Armory Club 1799 Mission Street  (downstairs performance space)   featuring Jamel Brinkley (A Lucky Man) Finalist...

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  • I Think About Your Hands – Belgium-based Poet Marina Kazakova

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    As the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death is commemorated this year, a Belgium-based poet Marina Kazakova prepared a poetry programme inspired by and devoted to...

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  • Ugly Beauty

    The Beat Dance Studio 2560 9th St., Berkeley, CA, United States

    Poetry & Performance Art Open Mic

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  • Howard Zinn Book Fair: Strike! Discovering Our Power

    San Francisco City College 1125 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA

    Howard Zinn Book Fair 2019 Sunday December 8th 10am to 6pm City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus 1125 Valencia Street We are pleased to...

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  • Small Press Book Bazaar!

    SF MoMa 151 Third St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Free and open to the public; museum admission is free on this day Meet us at SFMOMA and around the Bay for Local Affairs, a...

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  • DA do SF 7

    Specs Bar 12 William Saroyan Place, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Come to SPECS Bar on Sunday, December 8 at 6pm as 3RP Co-directors Peter Carlaftes & Kat Georges present their annual Dada Journal MAINTENANT reading...

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  • San José Poetry Slam

    Caravan Lounge 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose, CA, United States

    feature: tba Hosted by Santa Clara Couty Poet Laureate Mighty Mike McGee doors and sign up list opens at 6:00pm sign up list closes at...

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  • Poets Laureate on Social Justice in Vallejo

    John F. Kennedy Library, Joseph Room 505 Santa Clara St, Vallejo

    Date/Time Date(s) - 12/09/2019 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Location 505 Santa Clara St Joseph Room at the John F. Kennedy Library, Vallejo, CA, with:...

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  • Marin Poetry Center’s annual Holiday Potluck & Read Around

    Falkirk Cultural Center 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael , CA, United States

    Our annual holiday party at the Falkirk mansion is a time for poetry, song, and great food. Bring a poem and a holiday dish to...

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  • Silvia Federici, Jenny Brown and Dani Burilson

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEY

    Monday, Dec 09, 2019 7:00 PM Location: In the basement 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley Silvia Federici in conversation with Jenny Brown, author of Birth Strike:...

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  • An evening with Kal Spelletich

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    An evening with Kal Spelletich Tuesday, December 10, 2019, 7:00 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco in conversation with Catharine Clark discussing...

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  • Silvia Federici book launch of Beyond the Periphery of the Skin

    CIIS Public Programs 1453 Mission St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism (PM Press & Kairos, 2019). Federici surveys the paradigms that...

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  • Roy Scranton

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Roy Scranton reading from his new novel I  ❤Oklahoma ! published by Soho Books Suzie's seen it all, but now she's looking for something she lost: a...

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  • The View from Somewhere: Reimagining local journalism in Oakland

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    Join us for a conversation on journalism, objectivity and an equitable approach to local news in Oakland. Two months after the 2016 presidential election, radio...

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  • Grace Paley’s Birthday

    Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Judith Arcana, author of Grace Paley's Life Stories, will read and share from her decades-long friendship with Grace and their history of activism and writing....

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  • InsideStorytime Flux

    Cinnabar 397 Ellis St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Our last event of 2019. Readers include Mahnaz Badihian (Raven of Isfahan), Ed Miracle (Maker Messiah), Jen Burke Anderson, and others.

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  • 30 Years of Street Sheet

    Street Sheet 280 Turk St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    We invite you to our new office to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Street Sheet newspaper! For three decades Street Sheet has been documenting...

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  • Fight the Tower! Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance

    Eastwind Books of Berkeley 2066 University Ave., Berkeley, CA, United States

    Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the ways they are marginalized by intersectionalities of race and gender....

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  • Performance | 2019 Poets-in-Residence

    Museum of the African Diaspora 685 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us for the culminating event of our 2019 Poets-in-Residence program. Tonya Foster and Alan Peláez López will perform their poetry at a reading to...

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  • Last Voz of 2019!

    Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    End 2019 right with an amazing night of poetry! As usual we will have snacks, drinks, three features, and an open mic!

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  • Terry Tempest Williams

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Terry Tempest Williams reading from her new book Erosion: Essays of Undoing published by Sarah Critchton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux Fierce, timely, and unsettling essays...

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  • Poetry by the Bay

    Oddfellows Hall 342 Georgia St., Vallejo, CA, United States

    Longest running poetry open mic in Vallejo. Come. Everyone is welcome. 4 minutes per poet. Multiple rounds. Freedom of expression. 2nd Floor Oddfellows Hall. 342...

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  • BPR Midterm Chapbook Release Party

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    Berkeley Poetry Review will be holding a release party for the third issue of our chapbook series: MIDTERM 3 - CIRCUITS, including poems from Leila...

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  • 2019 Michael Rubin Book Award Release Party!

    Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join Fourteen Hills press to celebrate OPPRESSORFACE, the 2019 Michael Rubin Book Award winning book of poetry written by Rob Hendricks. There will be drinks,...

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  • Lyrical Opposition: Unplugged

    483 14th St, San Francisco, CA 94103

    You’re cordially invited to join us for an intimate showcase of socially-conscious, acoustic hip-hop music. Based in Bay Area, CA, Lyrical Opposition creates safe platforms...

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  • The Fire Thieves in the Gallery

    San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries 401 Van Ness Ave, Ste 126, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Organized by Kim Shuck, San Francisco Poet Laureate in consultation with Pam Peniston, artistic director of the Queer Cultural Center. The SFAC is pleased to...

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  • Jeff VanderMeer: Dead Astronauts

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

    Jeff VanderMeer joins us to discuss his new novel, Dead Astronauts. Praise for Jeff VanderMeer “Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy was an ever-creeping map of the...

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  • “Chan Family Picnic”—Reading by Eugenie Chan Theater Projects

    CHSA Museum 965 Clay Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Eugenie Chan Theater Projects and the Chinese Historical Society of America invite you to a reading of Chan Family Picnic, a rollicking new vaudeville about the mental...

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