30 Years of Street Sheet
Street Sheet 280 Turk St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesWe 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 StatesAsian 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 StatesJoin 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 StatesEnd 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 StatesTerry 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 StatesLongest 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 StatesBerkeley 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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Kelsey St. Press 45th Anniversary Celebration: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Ching-In Chen, Andrea Abi-Karam
McRoskey Mattress Company, Inc 1687 Market St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThe 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...
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2019 Michael Rubin Book Award Release Party!
Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesJoin 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 94103You’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 StatesOrganized 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 StatesJeff 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 StatesEugenie 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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Music Release Party and Solstice Celebration with Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore
The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesMat 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...
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PEOM: Poetry Every Other Month
Julie's Coffee and Tea Garden 1223 Park St., Alameda, CA, United StatesJoin 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...
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Radar Productions / Show Us Your Spines: November Resident Reading
Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn collaboration with RADAR Productions and the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center at the SF Public Library! QTPOC writers who were participants of the Show...
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The Southeast Asian Diaspora in Poetry & Memoir
Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St Ste 290, Oakland, CA, United StatesJoin 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...
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Martinis & Writers with Literary Speakeasy
Martuni's 4 Valencia St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesCome raise a glass at Literary Speakeasy and celebrate the closing of another year! We have five amazing artists for you this month, including poet...
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GhostTourSF’s “Memories of Glen Park”: Zine Release
Bird & Beckett Books and Records 653 Chenery St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesGhost Tour: San Francisco is an ongoing art project charting collective memories of San Francisco neighborhoods. The third section focuses on Glen Park. The upcoming...
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VeteransWrite meetings
SJSU MLK Library 150 E San Fernando St, San Jose, CA, United Statesled 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...
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Vi Ruggiero + Lauren Napier
The Beat Museum 540 Broadway, San Francisco , CA, United StatesJoin Vic Ruggiero and Lauren Napier as they return to the Beat Museum for an evening of melodies.
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Bay Area Poets Coalition
Strawberry Creek Lodge 1320 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE 1320 Addison St., Berkeley, CA Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave. between Acton & Bonar St. Parking on...
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Abigail Hing Wen with Sabaa Tahir
Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United StatesJoin 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...
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Slam Jam! live at The Marsh Berkeley
The Marsh Cabaret Bar 2120 Allston Way , Berkeley , CA, United StatesSlam 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,...
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Aaron Cohen / Move On Up
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesAaron Cohen discusses the subject of his new book Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power published by the University of Chicago...
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Tara Sim with Kat Cho
Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United StatesWe'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...
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NewYearPoetBash! Freedman/AD/Heinemann/Samuels/Robinson/Townsend
E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United StatesIt’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,...
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EJ Koh: The Magical Language of Others
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesE.J. Koh discusses her new memoir The Magical Language of Others. Praise for The Magical Language of Others "The Magical Language of Others is an exquisite, challenging,...
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Open Mic Night!
Simple Pleasures Cafe 3434 Balboa St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesIt's open mic night at Simple Pleasures! Join us for an evening of music and story-telling at our favorite neighborhood cafe. Sign up is at...
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Swerve Book Launch and Reading
Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave, BerkeleyLocal award-winning author, Ellery Akers, will be launching her new book, Swerve: Environmentalism, Feminism, and Resistance on Thursday, January 9th, 2020 at Moe's Books. She will...
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