• Verónica Gerber Bicecci

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

    Mexican visual artist who writes, Verónica Gerber Bicecci discusses her novel Empty Set, with critically acclaimed translator Christina MacSweeney, who brought it into English. A...

    Free
  • Saturday Night Special, an “Ekphrastic” open mic

    Nick's Lounge 3218 Adeline St., Berkeley, CA, United States

    "Ekphrastic poems focus on works of art—usually paintings, photographs, or statues. And modern ekphrastic poems have generally shrugged off antiquity’s obsession with elaborate description, and...

    Free
  • Diana Khoi Nguyen

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

    Diana Khoi Nguyen reads from her new poetry collection, Ghost Of. Also featuring readings by fellow poets, Jane Wong, Ingrid Rojas, Diana Arterian and Juliana Xuan Wang. About Ghost Of...

    Free
  • Lunada Literary Lounge

    Galería de la Raza 2857 24th Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Under the Blue Moon of March, on the final night of Mes Internacional de la Mujer, Lunada is honored to host award winning internationally renowned...

    Free
  • Richard A. Walker

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

    Richard A. Walker   celebrating his new book Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay...

    Free
  • Bazaar Writers Salon

    Bazaar Cafe 5927 California St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Readings by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Kara Krewer, Kim Magowan, and Brynn Saito Hosted by Peter Kline Poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate Marcelo Hernandez Castillo...

    Free
  • Legacy of Poetry Festival: Javier Zamora

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library 150 East San Fernando Street Room 590, San Jose, CA, United States

    Poetry reading and conversation with Javier Zamora. Meet one of the most important younger poets emerging in the United States, Javier Zamora. Author of the...

    Free
  • Tananarive Due

    Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    Tananarive Due is a screenwriter, award-winning novelist, and leading voice in black speculative fiction. Her most recent book, Ghost Summer, won a British Fantasy Award and...

    Free
  • Kaya Press @ City Lights

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

    Kaya Press @ City Lights Sesshu Foster reads from City of the Future Max Yeh reads from Stolen Oranges about City of the Future Twenty-one years after Kaya Press...

    Free
  • Curtis White

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

    Curtis White   reading from his new novel LACKING CHARACTER from Melville House The man Paul Auster called "a master of bewitchments" and a founder of...

    Free
  • Sarah Andersen / Herding Cats

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Booksmith welcomes Sarah Andersen back for her new book, Herding Cats! Please join us. More #relatable comics from Sarah’s Scribbles!   Please note: this is a free event,...

    Free
  • Pandemonium Press: Whan That Aprile . . .

    The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United States

    Featured readers: Judy Wells, Kirk Lumpkin, Mary Mackey, Rafael Jesús González. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open...

    Free
  • Elaine Castillo

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

    Elaine Castillo discusses her debut novel, America Is Not The Heart. Praise for America Is Not The Heart “Elaine Castillo’s entrancing and magnificent debut is set to...

    Free
  • Facades Everywhere

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    On Thursday, April 4, 2018, The Bindery will become a truth machine. Three writers, Devi S. Laskar, Claudia H. Long,Crystal Jo Reiss, and a surprise poet/novelist, will...

    Free
  • Shanthi Sekaran

    Hagerty Lounge, SMC 1928 Saint Mary's Road, Moraga , CA, United States

    Her latest novel, Lucky Boy, was named an Indie Next Great Read and an Amazon Editors' Pick.

  • Matthew Zapruder

    Morrison Library, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Matthew Zapruder is the author most recently of Sun Bear and Why Poetry, a book of prose about poetry.

  • Presidio Live – Western Hemisphereans

    Presidio Officers' Club 50 Moraga Avenue, San Francisco, CA

    PRESIDIO LIVE – Thursday Evenings at 7 pm In Presidio Live, experience live music, theatre, dance, film, and dialogues that offer a contemporary take on...

    Free
  • Presidio Live | Literary Reading: Western Hemisphereans

    Presidio Officers' Club 50 Moraga Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United States

    In Presidio Live, experience live music, theatre, dance, film, and dialogues that offer a contemporary take on the history and nature of the Presidio and...

    Free
  • Henri Cole

    Mechanics Institute 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom, San Francisco, CA, United States

    City Lights Booksellers in conjunction with Mechanics' Institute Library and NYRB present Henri Cole celebrating the release of   Orphic Paris from New York Review...

    $15
  • Dan Bransfield / Pizzapedia

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery is excited to host a launch for Dan Bransfield'sPizzapedia. Join us for a meet and greet, pizza (obviously), and a cash bar! A book...

    Free
  • Tom Raworth (1938–2017): A Celebration of His Life and Work

    Maude Fife Room, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Join us as we remember poet and friend Tom Raworth, with readings and tributes, at UC Berkeley's Maud Fife Room in Wheeler Hall. Miles Champion, poet...

    Free
  • NoViolet Bulawayo, Gina Berriault Award for Fiction, reading

    The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Junot Díaz writes of Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo, "I knew this writer was going to blow up. Her honesty, her voice, her formidable command of...

    Free
  • Mills College MFA Alumnae Reading & Reception

    Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    Reception at 5:15 pm for newly admitted graduate students, followed by readings

    Free
  • Andrea Abi-Karam

    Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    Andrea Abi-Karam is an Arab American genderqueer punk poet cyborg. Their first full-length book Extratransmission is forthcoming from Kelsey Street Press in early 2018. Abi-Karam’s previous work,The...

    Free
  • Michelle Cruz Gonzales

    Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    Michelle Cruz Gonzales is the author of The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band. Before attending Mills College, Gonzales played drums...

    Free
  • Steve Zolno: The Future of Democracy

    Rockridge Branch 5366 College Avenue, Oakland, CA, United States

    What is democracy and where did it come from? Is it a new development or was it always present in human society? And perhaps the...

    Free
  • Perfectly Queer: National Poetry Month

    Dog Eared Books Castro 489 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Join us in celebrating National Poetry Month with San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck, Aja Couchois Duncan, Luna Merbruja, and Lourdes Figueroa

    Free
  • Weekday Wanderlust

    Weekday Wanderlust 562 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Hello Wanderlusters. Mark your calendars for TUESDAY APRIL 10. We have a superb line-up waiting just for you with Julia Scott, John Ellis, and Amanda...

    Free