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...
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....
Our last event of 2019. Readers include Mahnaz Badihian (Raven of Isfahan), Ed Miracle (Maker Messiah), Jen Burke Anderson, and others.
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...
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....
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...
End 2019 right with an amazing night of poetry! As usual we will have snacks, drinks, three features, and an open mic!
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...
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...
Berkeley Poetry Review will be holding a release party for the third issue of our chapbook series: MIDTERM 3 - CIRCUITS, including poems from Leila...
The Poetry Center joins Kelsey St. Press for a public celebration of the press's 45th Anniversary, with readings by poets Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Ching-In Chen, and Andrea Abi-Karam. Kelsey Street Press was...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Mat and Yvonne will serenade us with some of the songs on their new album, discuss the companion book and we'll toast the coming of...
Join us every other month at 7pm for a featured poet, an open mic and great drinks and treats! Featured Poet: Gene Kahane (more dates/poets...
In collaboration with RADAR Productions and the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center at the SF Public Library! QTPOC writers who were participants of the Show...
Join us for a reading that brings together the work of Laotian poet and dancer Krysada Phounsiri and Cambodian writer Sieu Sean Do. Krysada Phounsiri's...
Come raise a glass at Literary Speakeasy and celebrate the closing of another year! We have five amazing artists for you this month, including poet...
Ghost Tour: San Francisco is an ongoing art project charting collective memories of San Francisco neighborhoods. The third section focuses on Glen Park. The upcoming...
led by Nick Butterfield, Jeffrey Leonard, and Amy Meier First Friday of each Month, 1pm-4pm MLK Library, contact VeteransWrite@yahoo.com if interested in attending Admission FREE Poetry Center...
Join Vic Ruggiero and Lauren Napier as they return to the Beat Museum for an evening of melodies.
STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE 1320 Addison St., Berkeley, CA Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave. between Acton & Bonar St. Parking on...
Join us to celebrate the launch of Abigail Hing Wen’s highly anticipated, romantic, and layered debut, Loveboat, Taipei, praised as “an intense rush of rebellion...
Slam Jam is a monthly series featuring a rotating lineup of some of the SF Bay Area's most radical poets accompanied by the Noise All-Stars,...
Aaron Cohen discusses the subject of his new book Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power published by the University of Chicago...
We're thrilled to invite you to celebrate the launch of Scavenge the Stars, Tara Sim’s gender-swapped retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo that is...
It’s 2020! So let’s combine two poetry readings into one! And have a new year poetry extravaganza! Poets include Lewis Freedman, Clay A.D., Caspar Heinemann,...