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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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

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  • 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...

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  • Maw Shein Win

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

    Maw Shein Win   celebrating the release of her new collection of poetry Invisible Gifts: Poems published by Manic D Press Themes of vulnerability and...

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  • Rachel Levin

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

    Rachel Levin celebrates the release of her new book Look Big: And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds. About Look Big A humorous...

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  • Emerging Writers Festival

    Fromm Hall - FR 120 - Xavier Auditorium, USF 2130 Fulton St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    TUESDAY, APRIL 10 7:45 – 9:30 p.m. Fromm Hall - FR 125 - Maraschi Room Elizabeth Greenwood is the author of the nonfiction book Playing Dead: A Journey...

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  • The Black Aesthetic

    A Talk with The Black Aesthetic

    Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive 2155 Center St., Berkeley, CA, United States

    A Talk with The Black Aesthetic Wednesday / 4.11.18 / 12:00 Free, no ticket needed. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC --- The Black Aesthetic...

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  • This is Now with Angie Coiro Presents: Leslie Jamison on Alcoholism

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Leslie Jamison is the author of the essay collection The Empathy Exams, a New York Times bestseller. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine and Harper's, among others, and she...

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  • Caspar Henderson

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

    Caspar Henderson, author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, discusses his new book A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels. Praise...

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  • Meg Wolitzer / The Female Persuasion

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    To be admired by someone we admire—we all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of being singled out by someone of esteem. But sometimes...

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  • Emerging Writers Festival

    Fromm Hall - FR 120 - Xavier Auditorium, USF 2130 Fulton St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 7:30 – 9 p.m. Fromm Hall - FR 125 - Maraschi Room Patricia Horvath is the author of the memoir All the Difference (Etruscan Press). Her...

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  • Marcel Schwob: Chris Clarke and Kit Schluter

    THE LAUNDRY 3359 26th Street, San Francisco

    Join translators Chris Clarke and Kit Schluter in an overdue celebration of the beguiling French writer Marcel Schwob, a cult phenomenon who secretly influenced a...

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  • Peter Balakian

    Hammer Theater Center 101 Paseo De San Antonio Walk, San Jose, CA, United States

    Lewandowski Poet In conjunction with Legacy of Poetry Day.

  • Get Lit Spring Reading!

    Aqus Petaluma 101 H St, Petaluma, CA, United States

    Come join us April 12 as we celebrate spring reads with a fun night of literary storytelling with featured readers Christine No, Patty Somlo and...

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  • Leslie Jamison

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

    Leslie Jamison discusses her new book, The Recovering: Intoxication And Its Aftermath. Praise for The Recovering "Leslie Jamison has written an honest and important book. It...

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  • Kathleen Belew

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

    Kathleen Belew   discussing the subject of her new book Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America from Harvard University Press...

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  • Jami Attenberg & Friends / All Grown Up

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    Join us as we celebrate the paperback launch of Jami Attenberg'sAll Grown Up, with local superheroes Charlie Jane Anders, Rachel Khong, and Esmé Weijun Wang all talking on the...

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  • Angel Dominguez and Kit Schluter

    Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive 2155 Center St., Berkeley, CA, United States

    Two renowned poets, Dominguez and Schluter read their work.

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  • Half Past the Unlucky: A Friday the 13th Reading

    The Beat Museum 540 Broadway, San Francisco , CA, United States

    & DRAWING FOR POEMS UNDER THE DOME FRI. APRIL 13TH, 7PM On Friday the 13th, join us for an auspicious evening of poetry in celebration...

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  • Cliterary Salon: Unlucky in Love

    SOMA

    Cliterary Salon is a show of ribald and rowdy stories about the clitoris, bringing a spirit of fun sexuality to a literary scene that's traditionally...

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