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  • September 2020
  • Thu 17
    September 17, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

    Changing Academia Forever: Black Student Leaders Analyze the Movement They Led

    The most effective and long-lasting student strike in U.S. history took place at San Francisco State College in 1968. The first Black Student Union, the...

  • Thu 17
    September 17, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: Carl Phillips and Kimberly Reyes

    Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Join us on Thursday, September 17th at 6pm PDT when Carl Phillips discusses his latest poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, with Kimberly...

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  • Thu 17
    September 17, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: Carl Phillips and Kimberly Reyes

    Join us on Thursday, September 17 at 6pm PDT when Carl Phillips discusses his latest poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, with Kimberly Reyes on Zoom....

  • Thu 17
    September 17, 2020 @ 6:30 pm PDT

    YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: ALL THE FEELS 2020

    You're Going to Die: ALL THE FEELS 2020 an ONLINE Open Mic & Listening Space for communal connection & mortal vulnerability w/Ned Buskirk, the You're...

    Free
  • Thu 17
    September 17, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    Poetry Center Book Award Reading: Ashley Toliver and Jason Bayani, reading and in conversation

    Register to attend Join us for this reading by Poetry Center Book Award winner Ashley Toliver, for her book Spectra (Coffee House Press). She'll be...

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  • Thu 17
    September 17, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen Library

    Thursday, September 17, 7:00pm featuring Peter Neil Carroll online on Zoom registration link to come Peter Neil Carroll is currently Poetry Moderator of Portside.org. His...

    Free
  • Thu 17
    September 17, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Jessica Garrison, The Devil’s Harvest

    Join us for an online event with Jessica Garrison, author of The Devil's Harvest: A Ruthless Killer, a Terrorized Community, and the Search for Justice in California's...

  • Thu 17
    September 17, 2020 @ 8:00 pm PDT

    Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic

    Nomadic Press 2926 Foothill Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in "The Chapel" at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided...

    Free
  • Sat 19
    September 19, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PDT

    Jingletown Reading Presents Tomás Riley

    Please Share. Please Invite. Join us as Jingletown Reading & Open Mic celebrates Tomás Riley on Saturday September 19, 2020 from 2-3:30pm PST. See Jingletown...

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  • Sat 19
    September 19, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Conversations with Authors – Ayad Akhtar (Virtual Event)

    Ayad Akhtar's new novel, Homeland Elegies, is the profound and provocative story of an immigrant father and his son searching for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with...

  • Sun 20
    September 20, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

    Nasty Woman Press Literary Extravaganza: Shatter Some Glass! (Virtual Event)

    Meet some of the legendary, bestselling and critically acclaimed authors who donated time and work to Shattering Glass, the first non-profit anthology by non-profit publisher Nasty Woman...

  • Sun 20
    September 20, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Sy Montgomery, Becoming a Good Creature

    Join us on the Crowdcast platform for an event with National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery (Soul of an Octopus) for her new book, Becoming a...

  • Sun 20
    September 20, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Conversations with Authors – Wade Davis (Virtual Event)

    Wade Davis' inspiring tale of hope and redemption, Magdalena: River of Dreams, braids together memoir, history, and journalism to form both a rare, kaleidoscopic picture of...

  • Tue 22
    September 22, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

    Poetry as Translation, Translation as Poetry with Ostashevsky

    Eugene Ostashevsky, a Russian-American poet, will talk about the intersection between poetry and translation in his work, in particular on wordplay in Russian avant-garde poetry...

  • Tue 22
    September 22, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

    The Humanities Institute presents Margaret Atwood in conversation with Kate Schatz

    Join The Humanities Institute as they present their virtual Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture featuring Margaret Atwood in conversation with UC Santa Cruz alumna and New...

  • Tue 22
    September 22, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Dan Beachy-Quick: Poet discusses his new translation, Stone-Garland

    Poet, essayist, and translator Dan Beachy-Quick joins us for a conversation about his new translation of ancient Greek poetry, Stone-Garland (Milkweed Editions). This event is sponsored by...

  • Tue 22
    September 22, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: Lucy Jane Bledsoe in conversation with Christina Quintana and Naomi J. Williams / Lava Falls

    Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Lucy Jane Bledsoe to celebrate the paperback edition of her new novel Lava Falls. She'll be in conversation with Christina...

  • Wed 23
    September 23, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Barry Gifford in conversation with Rob Christopher

    celebrates the release of his new book Roy's World: Stories 1973-2020 published by Seven Stories Press In a special presentation, Barry Gifford will be joined...

  • Thu 24
    September 24, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

    Tara Fickle in Conversation with Andrew Way Leong

    Join us for a book talk with Tara Fickle about her new book The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities and Aiiieeeee!: An...

  • Thu 24
    September 24, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    A Reading of Osip Mandelstam in English, with Ilya Bernstein

    Globus Books presents a reading of Osip Mandelstam's poetry in English. Mandelstam is one of the dozen luminous names in Russian poetry. Mandelstam (1891–1938) began as...

  • Thu 24
    September 24, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Zoom Book Launch of The Lines Between Us: Author Rebecca D’Harlingue in Conversation with Author Jill G. Hall

    Please join us on Thursday, September 24 at 5 PM PDT for a Zoom book launch with author Rebecca D'Harlingue discussing her new novel, THE LINES BETWEEN US,...

  • Thu 24
    September 24, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Marcelo Hernadez Castillo

    Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Join us on Thursday, September 24 at 6pm PDT when Rowan Ricardo Phillips reads from his latest collection, Living Weapon, with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo on...

    Free
  • Thu 24
    September 24, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Kerri Arsenault and John Freeman Discuss Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains

    Kerri Arsenault joins us via Crowdcast to discuss her debut book, Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains (St. Martin's Press), with poet, editor, and writer John Freeman....

  • Fri 25
    September 25, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT

    Presentation: Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era

    San Francisco Public Library - Virtual Library

    Elizabeth Pepin Silva and Lewis Watts will present an illuminating slide show and talk about the new edition of Harlem of the West: The San Francisco...

    Free
  • Sat 26
    September 26, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 6:00 pm PDT

    Bookshop’s Independent Bookstore Day

    Independent Bookstore Day looks a little bit different this year. While we had planned to celebrate virtually alongside more than 450 other bookstores nationwide on August...

  • Sat 26
    September 26, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PDT

    Eastwind Book Club: Exit West

    Join Eastwind's (virtual) Book Club!This September, we will be reading Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. The book club meeting will take place via Zoom on...

  • Sat 26
    September 26, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PDT

    Jorma Taccone in Conversation with Tony Taccone-VIRTUALLY!

    Jorma Taccone, member of the hit comedy trio The Lonely Island, (and Berkeley High alum), presents his debut picture book, Little Fox and the Wild Imagination, a...

  • Mon 28
    September 28, 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

    Joe Clifford in conversation with Jennifer Hillier – The Lakehouse (Virtual Event)

    After being cleared of his wife’s murder, Todd Norman returns to her small Connecticut hometown in order to finish building their dream house by the...

  • Tue 29
    September 29, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: Andreas Karelas, Katharine Hayhoe, & Bill McKibben

    Presented by Beacon Press Join us on Tuesday, September 29 at 1pm PDT for the book launch of Andreas Karelas' Climate Courage: How Tackling Climate Change Can Build Community,...

  • Tue 29
    September 29, 2020 @ 5:00 pm PDT

    [Virtual Ruby] Q&A with Brit Bennett, author of THE VANISHING HALF

    Join us for a Q&A with New York Times–bestselling author Brit Bennett! We encourage you to read The Vanishing Half before this event. Find it at local...

    Free
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