Litseen
Get lit. Push play.
Menu
  • about
  • bay area literary calendar
  • ongoing
  • profiles of local authors
  • past events
    • watch past events
    • book reviews
    • event reviews
30 events found.

San Francisco

  1. Events
  2. San Francisco

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

  • List
  • Month
  • Day
Today
  • October 2020
  • Wed 7
    October 7, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: Kazim Ali, Gillian Conoley, and Brian Teare

    virtual

    Join us on Wednesday, October 7th at 7pm PST when Kazim Ali is joined by poets Gillian Conoley and Brian Teare to celebrate his new...

    Free
  • Thu 8
    October 8, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck’s Poem Jam

    online

    featuring  special guests, themes and writing groups. In October we honor Latinx Heritage month with poets Josiah Luis Alderete, Lourdes Figuroa and more. Josiah Luis Alderete is a full...

    Free
  • Fri 9
    October 9, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT

    Zach Norris, We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities

    online

    Zach Norris is the Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, author of We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities, and...

    Free
  • Sat 10
    Bawdy Storytelling
    October 10, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm PDT

    Bawdy Storytelling: Choose Your Own Adventure

    online

    Tickets at https://bawdylivestream_cyoa.eventbrite.com Listen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at http://bit.ly/bawdypodcast ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• “Best Erotic Podcast for 2020” - Oprah Magazine https://bit.ly/BawdyOprahBestOf2020 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• This Kinktacular Evening...

    $10 – $69.69
  • Mon 12
    October 12, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: Caroline Kim and Vanessa Hua

    virtual

    Join us on Monday, October 12 at 5pm PST when Caroline Kim and Vanessa Hua read from their work to celebrate Caroline's new collection, The...

    Free
  • Thu 15
    October 15, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    San Francisco’s Chinatown- Dick Evans and Kathy Chin Leong in conversation with Ben Fong Torres

    online

    San Francisco's Chinatown is the third in a series of contemporary documentary photography books by San Francisco resident and photographer Dick Evans – following his...

    Free
  • Fri 16
    October 16, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

    THE RACKET : TOTAL RECALL w/ Héctor Tobar

    ZOOOM

    THE RACKET READING SERIES: TOTAL RECALL w/ HECTOR TOBAR ZOOM LINK TO COME! We're doing a weekly reading series. And this week, oooooh weeee, are...

    Free
  • Tue 20
    October 20, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm PDT

    Get Lit #65 (Music by: TBA)

    Ale Industries 3096 E 10th Street, Oakland, CA, United States

    12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. We're headed...

  • Wed 21
    October 21, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    SFPL Virtual Library: Celia Stahr, Frida In America The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist

    online

    The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today. Mexican artist Frida Kahlo...

    Free
  • Fri 23
    October 23, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT

    San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Native Tongues: Tres Poetas de Califas

    online

    An afternoon of ¡VIVA! poetry with Alejandro Murguía, Leticia Hernández-Linares and José Héctor Cadena. Alejandro Murguía author of Southern Front and This War Called Love, Nine Stories, City Lights...

    Free
  • Sat 24
    October 24, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

    San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Libby Copeland, The Lost Family

    online

    The Lost Family explores the rapidly evolving phenomenon of home DNA testing, its implications for how we think about family and ourselves and its ramifications for...

    Free
  • Mon 26
    October 26, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Book Club: Pura Neta by Benjamin Bac Sierra

    online

    We will be discussing Pura Neta by Benjamin Bac Sierra, our Sept./Oct. On the Same Page author. Set in the San Francisco Mission varrio from 2012 to...

    Free
  • Wed 28
    October 28, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Filipinx Poetry w Barbara Jane Reyes, Rachelle Cruz, Jan-Henry Gray and Aldrin Valdez

    online

    An evening with Barbara Jane Reyes, Rachelle Cruz, Jan-Henry Gray and Aldrin Valdez in honor of Filipino American History Month, and in celebration of Filipinx poetry...

    Free
  • November 2020
  • Sat 7
    November 7, 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm PST

    Ayşegül Savaş Reading

    You must register to attend this event! Free and Open to the Public. Co-sponsored by the MFA Program in Writing and the English Department. Ayşegül...

    Free
  • Thu 12
    November 12, 2020 @ 5:00 pm PST

    Harmada: Juan Cárdenas and Edgar Garbelotto celebrate João Gilberto Noll

    Join Unabridged Bookstore and Two Lines Press for an event celebrating João Gilberto Noll’s Harmada, a mythic tale of art and displacement nimbly translated from...

    Free
  • Fri 13
    November 13, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Virtual Event: Patrick Earl Ryan and Martin Pousson

    online

    Join us on Friday, November 13 at 7pm PST when Patrick Earl Ryan discusses his award-winning debut collection, If We Were Electric, with Martin Pousson on Zoom! If...

    Free
  • Fri 13
    November 13, 2020 @ 8:00 pm PST

    KSW Presents “Cut to Bloom”

    This November, KSW Presents “Cut to Bloom,” a celebration of Arhm Choi Wild’s collection of poetry. Joined by Isabella “Isa” Borgeson and Hieu Minh Nguyen,...

    ?
  • Wed 18
    November 18, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Virtual Event: Night of Memoir with Alden Jones and Rick Moody

    online

    Join us on Wednesday, November 18 at 5pm PST for a special Night of Memoir with writers Alden Jones and Rick Moody, as they discuss their latest...

    Free
  • Thu 19
    Jane Hirshfield
    November 19, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm PST

    Marin Poetry Center Present Jane Hirshfield & Meryl Natchez

    Jewish Community Center of San Francisco 3200 California St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    November 19, 2020 Jewish Community Center/Marin Poetry Center Present Jane Hirshfield & Meryl Natchez Mill Valley poet Jane Hirshfield’s most recent, ninth poetry collection is Ledger (Knopf,...

  • Thu 19
    November 19, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    Author: Rand Quinn, Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools

    online

    Quinn discusses the contentious racial politics that emerged from school desegregation and why the school district gradually resegregated despite a court mandate. San Francisco’s school...

    Free
  • Fri 20
    November 20, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PST

    Panel: How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America

    online

    Celebrate the release of How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America, the latest addition to the Voice of Witness book series, with a roundtable...

    Free
  • Mon 30
    November 30, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    Virtual Event: Tracy Anne Hart on Stevie Ray Vaughan

    online

    Join us on Monday, November 30 at 6:00pm PST when photographer Tracy Anne Hart discusses her book, Seeing Stevie Ray, with former Creem magazine editor Robert Duncan on...

    Free
  • December 2020
  • Fri 11
    December 11, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    Andrea & Edmund Read You Art Out Loud

    online

    Andrea Passwater's "We Sing" (The Rumpus) and Edmund Zagorin's "Year Are Sentences" (Rabid Oak Review) are out soon in the anthology Best Small Fictions 2020....

    $7
  • Fri 18
    December 18, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PST

    HIGH DAWN: Noah Ross, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Jamie Townsend, Topazu, Subset

    online

    Small Press Traffic and UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium present HIGH DAWN 4 Readings by Noah Ross and S*an D. Henry-Smith Introduced by Jamie Townsend Music...

    Free
  • January 2021
  • Tue 19
    January 19, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PST

    LUSH: A SOMArts Series

    SOMArts 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    LUSH: A SOMArts Series launches on Tuesday, January 19, 2021. The first of three virtual programs, this event features readings, a panel discussion, and Q&A with Juli...

    $5 – $20
  • Wed 27
    January 27, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am PST

    ‘Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure’ MCD Virtual Event

    Museum of Craft and Design 2569 Third Street, San Francisco

    The Museum of Craft and Design welcomes writer and speaker Katie Treggiden for a virtual discussion of her new book, "Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure"...

    $8
  • February 2021
  • Thu 4
    February 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Lunar New Year Poetry and Calligraphy with Poets Michael Warr, Chun Yu, and Calligrapher Aiqin Zhou

    online

    Celebrate the Year of the Ox with us! Poets Michael Warr and Chun Yu read works in English and Chinese (Mandarin) that reflect the essence...

    Free – $25
  • Thu 4
    image for Eves at the Beat
    February 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading Curated by Georgina Marie!!

    online

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

    Free
  • Thu 18
    Lily King
    February 18, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    LILY KING

    online

    LILY KING Thursday, February 18, 2021 6:00pm Pacific Time TICKETS “Lily King writes with a great generosity of spirit.” – Ann Patchett Lily King is...

    $29
  • Sat 20
    February 20, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - February 21, 2021 @ 3:00 pm PST

    Prepping to Publish: a workshop for writers of color

    Virtual

    Geared toward marginalized writers who may lack access to MFA programs, workshops, and conferences, Prepping to Publish is a six-hour, two-session intensive. Sonora will select...

    Free
  • Previous Events
  • Today
  • Next Events
  • Google Calendar
  • iCalendar
  • Outlook 365
  • Outlook Live
  • Export .ics file
  • Export Outlook .ics file

Archives

Copyright © 2026

Powered by Oxygen Theme.

Loading Comments...