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  • March 2021

  • Thu 4

    VIRTUAL: Launch for Luiza Flynn-Goodlett / Look Alive, with K-Ming Chang, Alicia Mountain, Arhm Choi Wild & Meg Day

    March 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Luiza Flynn-Goodlett's debut full-length collection of poems Look Alive. She'll be joined for a...

  • Thu 4

    Virtual Event: Jamie Figueroa and Marie-Helene Bertino

    March 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    JOIN US ON THURSDAY, MARCH 4 AT 6PM PT WHEN JAMIE FIGUEROA IS JOINED BY MARIE-HELENE BERTINO TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT NOVEL, BROTHER, SISTER, MOTHER, EXPLORER, ON ZOOM!...

  • Thu 4

    Cristina Rivera Garza and Kit Schluter, reading and in conversation

    March 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST
    online

    Remote access event, free and open to the public REGISTER TO ATTEND —or— Watch this program at YouTube With emcee, Carolina de Robertis Supported in part by...

    Free
  • Thu 4

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism

    March 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author Mikki Kendall who will discuss Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot.  Registration for this free...

  • Thu 4

    Online Book Launch of THE STEEL BENEATH THE SILK with Author Patricia Bracewell

    March 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Please join us on Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 7 PM PST as we welcome author Patricia Bracewell to discuss her new novel, THE STEEL BENEATH THE...

  • Thu 4

    Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading Curated by Barbara Saunders!!!

    March 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST
    online

    During Women's History month 2019 a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded...

    Free
  • Fri 5

    Melissa Valentine

    March 5, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST
    online

    Friday, March 5, 2021 | 5:00 pm PDT | Zoom (RSVP to receive the event link) Melissa Valentine is an award-winning writer from Oakland, California,...

    Free
  • Fri 5

    Melissa Valentine Reading

    March 5, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Friday, March 5, 2021 | 5:00 pm PDT | Zoom (RSVP to receive the event link) Melissa Valentine is an award-winning writer from Oakland, California,...

  • Fri 5

    Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #49

    March 5, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST
    online

    90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9 If you enjoy spaces like this...

    Free – $200
  • Sat 6

    Alexandria Giardino on Instagram IGTV

    March 6, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST

    A young girl and an old tree learn from each other how to find their purpose and foster healing in the world.

  • Sat 6

    Joyous Resilience: Book Talk & Meditation with author Anjuli Sherin

    March 6, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PST

    Join Eastwind Books of Berkeley online for a book talk and guided meditation with author Anjuli Sherin, hosted by Shivani Narang. With so much information...

  • Sat 6

    Poemscaping: Trim. Write. Repeat.

    March 6, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm PST
    Virtual

    Surprise the Line presents a special one-time guest workshop led by experienced writers on a topic of their choosing every first Saturday of the month....

    $22
  • Sat 6

    Conversations with Authors – Jean Shinoda Bolen (Virtual Event)

    March 6, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Jean Shinoda Bolen’s book Like a Tree, which grew out of her experience mourning the loss of a Monterey pine that was cut down in her...

  • Sat 6

    Page Poets reading online event at The Green Arcade

    March 6, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST
    online

    COVID wouldn't stop Ovid! Or any other poets worth their salt, so please join us for an exciting online reading from The Page Poets Series...

    Free
  • Sat 6

    Celebrating the Arrival of Black Freighter Press

    March 6, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST
    online

    Join us as we celebrate the arrival of Black Freighter Press! With readings by Josiah Luis Alderete, Alie Jones, Tongo Eisen-Martin reading QR Hand, Jr.,...

    Free
  • Sat 6

    Nomadic & Black Freighter Press

    March 6, 2021 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm PST

    Black Freighter is honored to team up with our comrades at Nomadic Press for a joint reading celebrating resistance art. JOIN US as we celebrate...

  • Sun 7

    Suzanne Simard: Pioneering scientist discusses her anticipated book, Finding the Mother Tree

    March 7, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PST

    Suzanne Simard, a pioneering scientist who has changed the way we understand forest ecosystems, joins us to discuss her highly anticipated first book, Finding the Mother...

  • Sun 7
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    Bazaar Writers Salon

    March 7, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST
    online

    Readings by Jen Burke Anderson, Ryan Fox, Sarah Schweig, and Molly Spencer Hosted by Peter Kline Bazaar Writers Salon Zoom meeting – see link and...

    Free
  • Sun 7

    Bazaar Writers Salon Zoom Meeting

    March 7, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    Readings by Jen Burke Anderson, Ryan Fox, Sarah Schweig, and Molly Spencer Hosted by Peter Kline Bazaar Writers Salon Zoom meeting – see link and...

  • Mon 8

    James Canton Discusses his new book, The Oak Papers

    March 8, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PST

    James Canton joins us from the UK to discuss his book, The Oak Papers (HarperOne). "A profound meditation on the human need for connection with nature, as...

  • Mon 8

    MFA Reading Series: Shapes of Native Nonfiction – Deborah Miranda, Theresa Warburton, Elissa Washuta

    March 8, 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PST
    online

    Deborah A. Miranda is the author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (2013), recipient of the PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, a Gold Medal from the Independent...

    Free
  • Mon 8

    Irvin D. Yalom with Lori Gottlieb

    March 8, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    This event is online. How can we understand life, joy and love during the moment when they culminate in death and grief? Internationally acclaimed psychiatrist...

  • Mon 8

    CLA Presents: Laila Lalami

    March 8, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST
    online

    What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize­­–finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant...

    Free
  • Tue 9

    Kelly Loy Gilbert and Anna-Marie McLemore

    March 9, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    Two much loved critically acclaimed authors. Two fabulous eagerly awaited new books. Join us as we launch Kelly Loy Gilbert’s new book When We Were...

  • Tue 9

    Virtual Event: Rebecca Handler

    March 9, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Join us on Tuesday, March 9 for the launch of Rebecca Handler's debut novel, Edie Richter is Not Alone on Zoom! Zoom Login Info Please click the link below...

  • Tue 9

    Joshua Mohr in conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch

    March 9, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    celebrating the launch of his new book Model Citizen: a memoir published by MCD/FSG ---------- This is a virtual event that will be hosted by...

  • Wed 10

    Jeff Hawkins with Anil Ananthaswamy

    March 10, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    This event is online. In a book that biologist Richard Dawkins calls “exhilarating,” author, neuroscientist and engineer Jeff Hawkins unveils a new theory of intelligence...

  • Wed 10

    Virtual Event: Sam Cohen and Andrea Lawlor

    March 10, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST
    online

    Join us on Wednesday, March 10th at 6pm PT when Sam Cohen discusses her story collection, Sarahland, with Andrea Lawlor on Zoom! Zoom Login Info...

    Free
  • Wed 10

    Book Passage Presents: Elizabeth Wetmore – Valentine

    March 10, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime...

  • Thu 11

    Social Listening #4: Nathaniel Mackey & Fred Moten

    March 11, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm PST
    online

    Acclaimed poets and scholars, Nathaniel Mackey and Fred Moten will read from their poetry in the return of the We Are the Voices “Social Listening”...

    Free
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