Ann Killion presents Champions of Men's Soccer and Champions of Women's Soccer, the ultimate guides for young sports fans from an award-winning sports journalist. To reserve your seat, purchase a...
Oakland-based conceptual artist Lindsay Tunkl, is pleased to present Parting Practice: Rituals for Endings and Failure. This multifaceted event coincides with the release of the...
Fiestas Fridas open mic All topics/ All skill levels welcome
Please join us for a wonderful evening of poetry and music! 5:30 Poetry Reading features Michelle Bonilla Garcia Summer Bei Aakash Tyagi 7:30 Live Music...
Australian author Jessica Friedmann discusses her new essay collection Things that helped: on Postpartum Depression. Jessica will be joined by local poet and writer Lauren Levin in...
Join us at our Uptown, Oakland, location for the much-anticipated release of Nomadic Journal 2017 (Retro!): Wonder! It's going to be an amazing evening of...
Poets Julie Rogers & Gene Berson read their work
featuring Kyle Schlesinger and Tim Shaner Hosted by Kevin Killian
Booksmith hosts The Perfectly Queer reading series for their annual celebration of queerness at Pride Poetry Palooza! Eight amazing LGBTQ poets will read from new...
Kathleen McClung is the author of two collections of poetry, The Typists Play Monopoly (2018) and Almost the Rowboat (2013). Her poetry, memoir, and fiction...
an evening of poetry with Matt Potter, Carly Moore, and Dia Felix Hosted by Kevin Killian
Join Cara Black, New York Times bestselling author of the Aimée Leduc series (set in Paris) AND Noe Valley resident for a special Summer Stride...
This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information, or sign up for our events emails. This free event will take place in...
Please join Baruch Porras-Hernandez and Maw Shein Win on Tuesday, July 17th at the El Cerrito Library. We'll begin with an open mic followed by...
Elizabeth Rush discusses her new book, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore. Praise for Rising “Sea level rise is not some distant problem in a...
July 18 in the evening time from 6:30-8pm The Event Keep Begin Detach: Inspired by Isadora Duncan Come to EM Wolfman for an exploration of...
Poets Jane Gregory & Claire Marie Stancek Reading from their recent respective volumes Yeah No and Oil Spell, and introduced by Lyn Hejinian. To reserve your seat, purchase a...
The Bindery hosts the launch event for Heather June Gibbons' Her Mouth as Souvenir, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize. More information to be announced...
Wednesday, July 18, 7:30pm This Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series Lyrics and Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring...
About Hard To Do From Jane Austen to Taylor Swift, a look at the surprising politics of romantic love and its dissolution. Whatever the...
2101 Webster Street, Oakland, on Thursday July 19th, 7-9 pm, will feature Shobha Rao (Girls Burn Brighter), Maw Shein Win (Invisible Gifts), Kitty Costello (Upon Waking), Grant Faulkner (Fissures), and Graham Todd.
This event is cosponsored by Ecology Action. Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes will join us to discuss his new book, Energy, which reveals...
Hosted by Meryl Natchez, readers include Linda Lancione, Patricia McCaron, Janis Seagrave, Doreen Stock, and Elizabeth Underwood Hear local poets read their poems! Readers and Host...
Join feminist artists and activists Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl—the Bay Area duo behind the New York Timesbest-selling books Rad Women Worldwide and Rad American Women A-Z, for the San Francisco...
Gold Medal-winning Olympian Eddie Hart and award-winning sports journalist Dave Newhouse discuss Disqualified: Eddie Hart, Munich 1972, and the Voices of the Most Tragic Olympics. ABOUT DISQUALIFIED...
The 2018 SF Art Book Fair is an annual multi-day festival of artists' publications. This event is FREE and OPEN to the public and will feature artists’ books, art catalogs,...
Release party for "the World has a Timestamp, and so do I" by Ash Tre` Philips
The 2018 SF Art Book Fair is an annual multi-day festival of artists' publications. This event is FREE and OPEN to the public and will feature artists’ books, art catalogs,...
SF Zine-fest hosts hosts a pop up in the back gallery featuring work from local artists, writers and zine-makers Reading at 7 (readers TBA)
PINBALL. BOOZE. LIT. A brief reading and free party from TYRANT BOOKS to drop-kick UNDER THE SEA, a new book by Mark Leidner, out into...