• Berkeley Poetry Review Issue 48 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 issue 48 of our annual poetry journal. The party will be hosted by E.M. Wolfman...

  • After Hours: 7th Annual Poetry World Series

    Mill Valley Public Library 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley , CA, United States

    Friday, 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...

  • Brenda Hillman and giovanni singleton

    Pt. Reyes Books 11315 CA-1, Pt. Reyes Station, CA, United States

    Brenda 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,...

    Free
  • 5th Annual Ecopoetry Festival at the John Muir House

    John Muir House 4202 Alhambra Avenue, Martinez, CA, CA, United States

    The Fifth Annual Ecopoetry Festival will feature two poet laureates of Central Valley cities, along with special guests.  Indigo Moor, current laureate of Sacramento, and...

    Free
  • Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets, artists, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. To participate in...

  • Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich / The Fact of a Body

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The 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,...

    Free
  • The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night Featuring Alan Harris

    PianoFight 144 Taylor St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Hosted 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...

  • Carmen Giménez Smith

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

    Carmen 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...

    Free
  • Genny Lim, Kitty Tsui and Nellie Wong w/Bill Crossman on piano

    Bird & Beckett Books and Records 653 Chenery St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Nellie 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...

  • Rahna Reiko Rizzuto / Shadow Child

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The 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...

    Free
  • Julia Dixon Evans

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

    Julia 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...

    Free
  • Mark Greenside

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Mark 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...

  • Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island

    Book Passage San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Wild 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....

    Free
  • Keep Begin Detach: Yoko Ono

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

    Keep Begin Detach: Multimedia Essays Come to EM Wolfman for an exploration of text and image, music and silence, meditation and performance. Inspired by Yoko...

  • 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 Francisco

    radical poesies Steven Seidenberg + A’aron Heard + Tongo Eisen-Martin Curated by Tongo Eisen-Martin Wednesday! May 16th Doors 6:30PM Program7PM FREE    

    Free
  • Michelle Tea

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

    Michelle 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...

    Free
  • Townsend Walker / 3 Women, 4 Towns, 5 Bodies

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The 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...

    Free
  • Poets giovanni singleton and Carmen Gimenez Smith

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Born in New York, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from...

    Free
  • May Day, May Day–Lyrics & Dirges

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Jump from spring to summer with a literary reading that will leave you giddy and bubbly with. . . DeMareon Gipson Liz Green Barbara Jane...

  • William Middleton

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

    William Middleton discussing the subject of his new book Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil published by...

    Free
  • Tao Lin / Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change

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

    Booksmith hosts Tao Lin for his new book Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change. With Tao in conversation is The Believer's Ross Simonini -- please join us! Please note: this event begins...

    Free
  • InsideStoryTime: Persist

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

    Coming up: InsideStorytime SWAY at Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster St, Oakland, on Thursday May 17th, 7-9 pm, will feature, Kaitlin Solimine (Empire of Glass), Townsend Walker (3 Women 4...

    Free
  • Todd Robert Petersen presents IT NEEDS TO LOOK LIKE WE TRIED

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    Thursday, May 17 7pm EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Todd Robert Petersen to discuss his novel, It Needs to Look Like We Tried, on Tuesday, May 17th at 7pm. “Todd Robert...

  • Dorianne Laux + Joshua Mensch

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

    Free readings!