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  • May 2020
  • Thu 21
    May 21, 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
  • Fri 22
    May 22, 2020 @ 5:00 pm PDT

    Zoom Forward! #9 with Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth McKenzie, Peggy Townsend

    Phren-Z, The Hive Poetry Collective, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #9 with Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth McKenzie, Peggy Townsend part of the Zoom...

    Free
  • Fri 22
    May 22, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Zoom Forward! #10 with Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth McKenzie, Peggy Townsend

    Phren-Z, The Hive Poetry Collective, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #10 with Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth McKenzie, and Peggy Townsend, part of the Zoom...

  • Fri 22
    Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #10
    May 22, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

    Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #10

    90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Showing up is one amazing form of support that we really appreciate....

    Free
  • Sat 23
    Virtual Book Talk with John Tateishi
    May 23, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm PDT

    Virtual Book Talk with John Tateishi

    Join us for a virtual book talk with Redress author John Tateishi. Email berkeleyjacl@gmail.com or message us to receive the Zoom link. Buy your book...

    Free
  • Sat 23
    May 23, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

    How to Get Off Fossil Fuels Quickly—and Fairly: The Green New Deal and Beyond

    This event is free & will be broadcast on Zoom. Sign up here to attend! Stan Cox, author of The Green New Deal and Beyond, will join his...

  • Sat 23
    May 23, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

    Celebrate APA Heritage with the Poetry of J.Bayani, A.Cassinetto, M.Win

    Poetry and conversation with Aileen Cassinetto, Maw Shein Win, and Jason Bayani About this Event Celebrate Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month with Eastwind Books of Berkeley!...

  • Sat 23
    Living Between Generations: An Intergenerational Reading
    May 23, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Living Between Generations: An Intergenerational Reading

    Foglifter's Emerging Writer Fellows Reginald Edmonds and Ali Michael Cannon Present: Living Between Generations: An Intergenerational Reading Please join Foglifter in celebrating the culmination of...

    Free
  • Sat 23
    May 23, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    Youth Spirit Artworks Open Mic Poetry, Asé

    Our monthly Open Mic Poetry event, Asé, is happening this Saturday from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Zoom! We are featuring poets Kathy Dana...

    Free
  • Sat 23
    Funny Sexy Sad Worldwide: a Zoom reading to benefit Bail Project
    May 23, 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

    Funny Sexy Sad Worldwide: a Zoom reading to benefit Bail Project

    The Funny Sexy Sad council-- Lizzy, Amira, Nate and Melissa-- host these incredible readers, all sharing something that's either hilarious, miserable, or some kind of...

    Free
  • Sat 23
    May 23, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Jazmina Barrera and Philip Hoare

    Join us for a virtual--but real!--event to celebrate the publication of Jazmina Barrera's On Lighthouses (Two Lines Press). Jazmina will be joined by Philip Hoare for a conversation...

  • Sun 24
    May 24, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

    James Tracy, Hilary Moore, and Friends

    with  James Tracy, Hilary Moore, Bill Crossman, and Nancy Kurshan celebrating the release of No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's...

  • Mon 25
    Aaron Shurin reads from The Blue Absolute
    May 25, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

    Aaron Shurin reads from The Blue Absolute

    Monday May 25th at 6pm we will post video here and on youtube: Aaron Shurin reading from his latest book. You can order a copy...

    Free
  • Mon 25
    May 25, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Porochista Khakpour / Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity

    Booksmith hosts a virtual event with Porochista Khakpour for her new book Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity. This will be a virtual event, live-streamed on our Facebook...

    Free
  • Tue 26
    May 26, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: Amir Ahmadi Arian / Then the Fish Swallowed Him

    Booksmith and The Bindery host Amir Ahmadi Arian for his new novel, Then the Fish Swallowed Him. Please join us! This will be a virtual event, which we will be streaming...

  • Tue 26
    May 26, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    Litquake on Lockdown: Nerd Novels — A Different Kind of Escape

    As society grinds to a halt around us, many readers find themselves at home with time on their hands, yearning to think about something—anything—beyond the...

    Free – $5
  • Tue 26
    May 26, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    ODD SALON ONLINE: RESILIENT

    Stories of triumph and perseverance, hope, support, and love from times of plague and pandemic ODD SALON ONLINE: RESILIENT Tuesday, May 26, 6pm PT/9pm/ET We’re...

    Free – $50
  • Tue 26
    May 26, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Maurice Carlos Ruffin in conversation with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

    Maurice Carlos Ruffin reading from We Cast A Shadow published by One World --------- This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights...

  • Tue 26
    How to Raise a Reader with Pamela Paul of The New York Times
    May 26, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    How to Raise a Reader with Pamela Paul of The New York Times

    In conversation with Diana Divecha Program will air Tuesday May 26th, 7:00 PM PST Register (for free) to watch this program’s debut In a world where...

    Free
  • Tue 26
    May 26, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Phuc Tran: Sigh, Gone

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

    Phuc Tran discusses his new memoir Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In. Praise for Sigh, Gone “The...

    Free
  • Wed 27
    May 27, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm PDT

    Joanna Hershon & Phyllis Grant

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

    Joanna Hershon and Phyllis Grant discuss their new books, St. Ivo and Everything is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes. Praise for St. Ivo “From the very first...

    Free
  • Wed 27
    Alta Asks Live: Matthew Zapruder
    May 27, 2020 @ 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm PDT

    Alta Asks Live: Matthew Zapruder

    Poet Matthew Zapruder will join Alta Asks Live and host Heather Scott Partington on Wednesday, May 27 at 12:30 p.m. PST to discuss his latest...

    Free
  • Wed 27
    Guerrilla Lit: Farooq Ahmed, Nicole Mabry, Peter Kline
    May 27, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm PDT

    Guerrilla Lit: Farooq Ahmed, Nicole Mabry, Peter Kline

    Dixon Place Presents Guerrilla Lit Reading Series: Virtual Edition. We are pleased to announce that the reading scheduled for Wednesday, May 27 features Farooq Ahmed,...

    Free
  • Wed 27
    May 27, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    Litquake on Lockdown: Sarah Ray and A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety

    A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late millennials and iGen, or Generation Z—is demanding that policy makers and government leaders take...

    $1 – $5
  • Wed 27
    May 27, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Alka Joshi with Angie Coiro

    This event is online. Join us for an event with Alka Joshi, your new favorite novelist. Reading during this time period can be challenging... but the...

  • Thu 28
    May 28, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Frank Wilderson III in conversation with Justin Desmangles

    discussing the subject of his new book Afropessimism published by Liveright Books / W.W. Norton This is a virtual event that will be hosted by...

  • Thu 28
    One Person, No Vote: Carol Anderson in Conversation with Congresswoman Barbara Lee
    May 28, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    One Person, No Vote: Carol Anderson in Conversation with Congresswoman Barbara Lee

    Program will air Thursday May 28th, 7:00 PM PST Register (for free) to watch this program’s debut Carol Anderson is one of our nation’s leading voices...

    Free
  • Thu 28
    May 28, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    Quarantine Storytime // Deborah A. Miranda

    During the Shelter in Place, CLA is presenting live readings online with poets, writers, and translators, and the local presses who publish them. Our second...

    Free
  • Thu 28
    photo of Brenda Hillman
    May 28, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Round Weather Reading Series: Forrest Gander, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman

    Round Weather 951 Aileen St., Oakland

    Round Weather art gallery is starting a reading series of earth writing and ecopoetics. Join us to see contemporary poetry shine its leading lights onto...

    Free
  • Thu 28
    front cover of Home Baked
    May 28, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Author Alia Volz reading from Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

    Please join us on Thursday, May 28th at 7 PM at GGP as we welcome author Alia Volz reading from & discussing her new book,...

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