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Heather Christle discusses her new book, The Crying Book. Praise for The Crying Book  "In The Crying Book, Heather Christle makes a poignant and piercing examination of...

Teaching Resistance is a collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to...

Teaching Resistance is a collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to university...

Patty Seyburn and Dean Rader read from their new poetry collections, Threshold Delivery and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry About Threshold Delivery Threshold Delivery takes a lyrical look at...

We had a great and deep time for the release of the first edition of this book ten years ago, and this history of the...

Matt Saincome and Bill Conway discuss The Hard Times: The First 40 Years. A sharp, comedic send-up of punk and hardcore culture, from the creators of the...

Thursday, November 14 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University The Poetry Center Book Award Reading, co-sponsored this year by...

Cherríe Moraga discusses her new memoir, Native Country of the Heart. Praise for Native Country of the Heart "I love A Native Country of the Heart's forthright blending...

Jamel Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories, a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, the Story Prize, the John Leonard Prize,...

Despite the current survivor-affirming awareness around sexual violence, child sexual abuse, most notably when it’s a family member or friend, is still a very taboo...

To celebrate our third year of existence we've decided to tap the senses, to trod upon that which is most audible, to get a bunch...

Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday) is an Indie Next selection, a Barnes &...

discussing the subject of her new book Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco from Duke University Press San Francisco is the endgame...

AUTHOR Raquel Salas Rivera Raquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. They are the author of while they sleep (under the bed is another...

Liska Jacobs discusses her new novel, The Worst Kind of Want with Rita Bullwinkel. About The Worst Kind of Want A trip to Italy reignites a woman’s desires...

Wednesday, November 20, 7:30 pm Pegasus Books Downtown Lyrics & Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning...

celebrating two new books The President of Desolation & Other Poems from Black Widow Press The Mystery of False Attachments from Word Palace Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally...

Thursday, November 21 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series welcomes two outstanding Latina poets,...

Eric Thurm joins us to discuss his new book, Avidly Reads Board Games. Historic board games including, Busted!, a game from the 1970s about trying to start...

Join us to celebrate the release of The Best Small Fictions 2019 with readings by Lori Sambol Brody, Natalie Hernandez, Joy Lanzendorfer, Kim Magowan, J.L. Montavon, and Kara...