celebrating the release of two new books of poetry from Omnidawn Press Fate News by Norma Cole and Inside Song by Steve Dickison about Fate News:...
Jane Kim and Thayer Walker discuss their new book, The Wall of Birds:One Planet, 243 Families, 375 Million Years. About The Wall of Birds A celebration...
Join us for fruitcake and cheer in this annual Mrs. Dalloway's tradition. Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - 7:30pm First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical...
1st Tuesday's Spoken Word TV showcase is a community event that creates a positive space for expression through the arts. We highlight local talent and...
Join City Poet Laureate Dani Gabriel for "El Cerrito Out Loud" at Off the Grid. Hear featured poets and participate in an open mic and...
discussing the subject of his new book How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning by George Lakey from Melville House A lifetime...
WED. DEC. 5TH, 7PM By popular demand, we’ve added a second night of readings from the newly released Overthrowing Capitalism: Volume Five. Featured readers: Lincoln Bergman...
The Bindery hosts the concluding event in Prof. D. A. Powell's "San Francisco Poetics," an open classroom experience celebrating poets in San Francisco. The founding director...
Joshua Rivkin discusses his new biography, Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly, with R.O. Kwon. Praise for Chalk “Reviled when young, revered when old,...
Mary Jo Bang is the author of eight books of poems—including A Doll For Throwing, Louise in Love, The Last Two Seconds, and Elegy, which received the National Book Critics Circle...
Thanks to a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, The Poetry Center In Common Writers Series will present six double-programs (twelve events in all)...
Thanks to a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, The Poetry Center is thrilled to launch our new In Common Writers Series. We'll...
Featured readers: Jon Sindell, Sara McAulay, Robert Pesich, Susan Cohen. Open Mic Night follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award's...
celebrating Chaya Bhuvaneswar's new book White Dancing Elephants from Dzanc Books In luminous, vivid, searingly honest prose, the stories in White Dancing Elephants center on the experiences of diverse...
InsideStorytime LAPSARIANS will occur at Edinburgh Castle, 950 Geary Street, San Francisco, Thursday December 6th, 7-9 pm, featuring Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Fruit of the Drunken Tree), and others. lapsarians...
WOULD YOU BE CAUGHT DEAD IN THAT OUTFIT? A multimedia event celebrating the aesthetics of '80s and '90s underground clubbing by pájaros, maricones, mariposas, mariquitas...
Doors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! Join us at Nomadic Press as we celebrate Oakland First Fridays! Featuring readings by...
Friday, December 7th, feat. Brenda Hillman and Rae Armantrout! Please join us on Friday, December 7th, from 7:30-9:30 pm, for a reading featuring Brenda Hillman...
From a '60s-era verse letter to John Coltrane to a 2017 examination of Life After Trump, Another Way to Play collects more than a half...
TONGUES OF FIRE Reading Series 8pm bound together anarchist collective bookstore, 1369 Haight St. Featuring Anna Allen, James Warner, Phyllis Oscar, and others!
Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets, artists, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. To participate in...
discussing their new books The Long Honduran Night: Resistance , Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup By Dana Frank...
Authors Sumiko Saulson, Jim Provenzano, and Colleen McKee present and read from their latest works
The summer's over and light is getting dimmer in the evenings. Let's gather a bunch of writerly souls together to shed a little light on...
presenting a polyphonic play of interconnected stories from the new book Vanishing Act by Roman Muradov from Fantagraphics Books Written and drawn in thirteen styles,...
An important influence on Jorge Luis Borges and others, Oliverio Girondo was at the center of Argentine poetry in the twentieth century. His first two...
Emily Yoon, Sam Sax and Monica Sok read their latest poems. About A Cruelty Special To Our Species A piercing debut collection of...
In 2008, Douglas began performing Natural Herstory, a one-woman multimedia performance drawing from her poetry and fiction to explore Jamaican women's voices. Natural Herstory Remix is a continuation...
Sara Mumolo and Caroline O'Connor Thomas read from their latest poetry collections, Day Counter and Unusual Light Source. Sara Mumolo’s previous book is Mortar. Her poems have appeared...
LABORFEST ANTHOLOGY – ‘GIVING VOICE’ FRI. DEC. 14TH, 7PM Join us for a reading celebrating the release of Giving Voice, a LaborFest anthology spanning 2005-2017. Readers:...