b, Book, and Me Happy Hour
DaDa Bar 65 Post St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesJoin us after work to raise a glass to Two Lines latest from Kim Sagwa, b, Book, and Me, translated from Korean by Sunhee Jeong. There...
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Harlem of The West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era
Mechanics Institute Library 57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn the 1940s and 50s, a jazz aficionado could find paradise in the nightclubs of San Francisco's Fillmore District: Billie Holiday sang at the Champagne...
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Voz Sin Tinta: Bi-lingual poetry reading and open mic night! (Copy) (Copy) at Alley Cat Books
Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesVoz Sin Tinta, our monthly bi-lingual poetry reading and open mic night! Hosted and curated by Rene Vaz and Marguerite Munoz.
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Howard Eiland
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesCity Lights in conjunction with the Program in Critical Theory at the University of California at Berkeley present an evening with Howard Eiland celebrating two...
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Red Light Lit: Valentine’s Show
PianoFight 144 Taylor St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesCelebrate Valentine's a day early with Red Light Lit. The show is a mashup of poetry, storytelling, and art set to a live score by...
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Howard Eiland at City Lights Books
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesCity Lights in conjunction with the Program in Critical Theory at the University of California at Berkeley present an evening with Howard Eiland celebrating two...
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So This Sucks: A Night of Heartbreak & Disappointment
The Black Box Theater at The Palace of Fine Arts 3601 Lyon St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesHeartbroken? Join us. Single? Join us. Not single? Well let's be real, you live in the Bay Area, so chances are you will be VERY...
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You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes
The Lost Church 65 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesYou're Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes... Open Mic at The Lost Church - San Francisco w/Ned Buskirk $10 in advance & at...
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CAFÉ SOCIETY PRESENTS ROBERT HASS
Kaleidoscope Coffee 109 Park Place, Point Richmond, California, United StatesRobert Hass reads from his new collection, Summer Snow, in Point Richmond. A new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In...
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Love Songs for Dyslexic Hearts: A Night of Poetry at Alley Cat Books
Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesFeaturing Kim Shuck and the legendary bloodflower. Featuring Jack Hirschman, Rusty Rebar, Wrob Rosenberger, Jack Mellender, James Zealous, and the legendary bloodflower! The second hour...
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Enter Generations
Counterpulse 80 Turk St, San FranciscoENTER GENERATIONS: A Night of Intergenerational QTPOC Brilliance, curated by Shannon Prasad, Greg Pond, and Dazie Grego-Sykes with the support of Queer Rebels, in their...
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A Tribute to Toni Morrison
Mechanics Institute Library 57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesJoin this extraordinary evening to celebrate and honor one of America’s most important authors who gave voice to of the African American experience through the...
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‘Heartbeat’, A Film by Will Combs featuring Bob Kaufman, Jack Micheline, ‘Hube the Cube’ and others
The Beat Museum 540 Broadway, San Francisco , CA, United StatesAs a young film student immersed with the works of Godard and cinema verite’, Will Combs barged into the backyard of the remaining Beats in...
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Clement: Schulkind, McClung, Grafton, & Barnes
Green Apple Books Clement Street 506 Clement Street, San Francisco, United StatesAbout the Authors Lynne Barnes was born in Georgia and moved to New York City in 1968 with a front row ticket to HAIR, before migrating...
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Dia Felix and Matt Longabucco
Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesCome out for an impromptu reading featuring Dia Felix and their longtime pal Matt Longabucco!! Also featuring super surprise guests!! Come for the reading and...
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Gish Jen at The Ruby: Potluck and Discussion!
The Ruby 23rd and bryant street, san franciscoJoin us for a very special lunchtime conversation with award-winning novelist, Gish Jen. Jen will be in conversation with our very own Mimi Lok about...
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Typewriter Art: Typestracts, Artyping, and Constellation Poetry
San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesBefore ASCII art there was typewriter art. Taking advantage of a widely available office tool, artists and poets used the typewriter to forge a new...
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Dennis Baron at City Lights Bookstore
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesWhat's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She Published by Liveright Addressing one of the most pressing cultural questions of our generation, Dennis Baron reveals the...
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Conor Dougherty: Golden Gates
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesConor Dougherty discusses his new book Golden Gates: Fighting For Housing in America. Praise for Golden Gates “Golden Gates is a careful consideration of the Bay...
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Vincent Meis Reads at Dog Eared Books Castro
Dog Eared Books Castro 489 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, United StatesNovelist Vincent Meis reads from his just off the presses new novel, Four Calling Birds, 7pm, Wednesday, February 19 from at Dog Eared Books Castro,...
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Catana Chetwynd / Snug
The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesBooksmith presents Catana Chetwynd, in San Francisco for the first time to present her new book, Snug. Come meet Catana and her boyfriend John! Please note: This is...
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Word for Word presents: RETABLOS By Octavio Solis
Z Space 450 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesFeaturing the Chapters Retablos, The Way Over, Consuelo, El Judío, La Migra, La Llorona, Nothing Happens, The Quince, Mexican Apology, El Segundo, Neto, My Right...
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Radar: Show Us Your Spines Resident Reading
El Rio 3158 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesSHOW US YOUR SPINES is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center. For a month QTIPOC writers...
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Catana Chetwynd / Snug
The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesBooksmith presents Catana Chetwynd, in San Francisco for the first time to present her new book, Snug. Come meet Catana and her boyfriend John! PLEASE NOTE: >> ...
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William T. Vollmann
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statesreading from his new novel The Lucky Star: A Novel published by Viking/Penguin The National Book Award winning author returns to his original fictional territory–the...
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The Racket : Revenge
Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThere are themes and then there are THEMES and no one is surprised that REVENGE is absolutely a THEME. We imagine tales of murder and...
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In Common Writers Series: Jennifer Bartlett and Denise Leto, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesThe Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series opens 2020 with a double program featuring two remarkable poet/writers, each with significant work in disability poetics and activism. This...
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Paul E. Joseph in conversation with with Dr. Waldo E. Martin Jr. at City Lights Books
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesThe Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. published by Basic Books This dual biography of Malcolm...
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Jenny Offill: Weather
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesJenny Offill discusses her new novel Weather. Praise for Weather “This is so good. We are not ready nor worthy.”–Ocean Vuong “Jenny Offill conjures entire worlds...
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Diane Keaton
Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesAcademy-award winning actress Diane Keaton has starred in some of the most memorable films of the past forty years, including the Godfather trilogy, Annie Hall, Manhattan, The First Wives...
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