• In Common Writers Series: Denise Leto and Jennifer Bartlett

    The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series opens for 2020 with a double program featuring two remarkable poet/writers, each with significant work in disability poetics and activism....

    Free
  • Two Remarkable Poets on Disability Poetics and Activism

    The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series opens 2020 with a program featuring two remarkable poet/writers, each with significant work in disability poetics and activism. This event,...

    Free
  • Cliterary Salon: the Heart is a Meat Pump

    Perdita 323 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Cliterary Salon is a monthly literary show focusing on work not traditionally prioritized in the mainstream by writers who subvert convention. To learn more, please...

    $12
  • Stephen Ratcliffe and Kyle Schlesinger at Alley Cat Books

    Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Stephen Ratcliffe (sound of wave in channel) and Kyle Schlesinger (A New Kind of Country) will be here reading from their newest books!     ...

    Free
  • Ann Harleman Reading from TELL ME, SIGNORA

    Book Passage 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Ann Harleman will read from and discuss her new novel, TELL ME, SIGNORA.  Kate Hagesfeld, a recent widow, travels to Italy just after 9/11 to...

    Free
  • Sean Negus and Caroline Goodwin at Alley Cat Books

    Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us to celebrate the publication of Hurricane Music (Sean Negus) and Custody of the Eyes (Caroline Goodwin).  

    Free
  • Bawdy Storytelling’s ‘Lucky 13’th Anniversary

    Verdi Club 2424 Mariposa St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    SEE BOTH SHOWS WITH A FULL EVENING WRISTBAND!   Saturday February 22nd, 2020 at the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa, San Francisco, CA) Remember: Bang-O at...

    $25
  • Bawdy Storytelling’s Best of Bawdy 2020!

    Verdi Club 2424 Mariposa St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    SEE BOTH SHOWS WITH A FULL EVENING WRISTBAND!   Saturday February 22nd, 2020 at the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa, San Francisco, CA) (NOTE: This is...

    $25
  • Silent Book Club SF

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    Bring a book, bring a friend, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club, there's no assigned reading. All books and all ages...

    Free
  • SF in SF with Juliette Wade, Tiffany Trent, and Mike Chen

    American Bookbinders Museum 355 Clementina St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Please join us for an evening of reading and conversation with authors Juliette Wade, Tiffany Trent, and Mike Chen, in conversation with Bay Area writer,...

    Free
  • John Sayles at City Lights Books

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Yellow Earth from Haymarket Books Rich layers of shale oil are discovered under Yellow Earth, North Dakota and the neighboring Three Nations Indian reservation. All...

    Free
  • Megan Fernandes with Sam Sax

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Megan Fernandes reads from her new collection of poetry Good Boys published by Tin House Books In an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability,...

    Free
  • Apogee Press at Lone Glen

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    Please join us at 7 pm on Tuesday, February 25th for a night of poetry revelry at The Bindery in San Francisco. The Lone Glen...

    $5 – $10
  • Emily Nemens: The Cactus League

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

    Emily Nemens discusses her new novel The Cactus League. Praise for The Cactus League “Emily Nemens's magnificent debut is a masterwork of great empathy and detail,...

    Free
  • The Evolving Universe with Brian Greene in conversation with Gina Pell

    Nourse Theatre 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Brian Greene is widely recognized for his groundbreaking discoveries in the field of superstring theory.  Greene is co-founder and director of Columbia’s Institute for Strings, Cosmology,...

    $29 – $45
  • Lit Flicks: Steven Soderbergh’s “Out of Sight”

    Alamo Drafthouse Cinema 2550 Mission Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Lit Flicks is a new monthly collaboration between Litquake and Alamo Drafthouse, presenting the best films adapted from written works, and introduced by special guests....

    $16
  • the system must be tried

    Readers Bookstore Fort Mason Center, Building C, San Francisco, CA, United States

    SF writer Kevin Simmonds reads from the system must be tried, sponsored by the San Francisco Arts Commission.

    Free
  • Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Around the World

    World Affaris Auditorium 312 Sutter Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA, United States

    This year marks the 25th anniversary of the UN Conference of Women in Beijing, but what kind of progress has really been made? One billion...

    Free
  • Dean A. Strang in conversation with Lara Bazelon

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Booksmith hosts Dean A. Strang for his new book, Keep the Wretches in Order: America’s Biggest Mass Trial, the Rise of the Justice Department, and the Fall of the...

    Free
  • The Golden Arches in Black America

    JCCSF 3200 California St , San Francisco, CA, United States

    Marcia Chatelain In Conversation with Allyson Hobbs Hear the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in...

    $20
  • Karen Sherman – Brick By Brick

    Book Passage 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Karen Sherman, author of Brick By Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere moved her family from Bethesda, Maryland to Kigali for a year in 2012...

    Free
  • EVES AT THE BEAT: WOMXN READING AT THE BEAT MUSEUM

    The Beat Museum 540 Broadway, San Francisco , CA, United States

    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
  • Dodie Bellamy and Anthony Huberman in conversation

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    celebrating the release of Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind Edited by Jeanne Gerrity and Anthony Huberman published by Semiotext(e) Books, distributed by The MIT...

    Free
  • Suzanne Stein and Anne Lesley Selcer, reading and in conversation

    The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Join us for this reading and conversation with two poet/performers who each have worked and written extensively in relation to contemporary art practices. This event,...

    Free
  • Undocumented Black Poetics: Book Launch & Reading

    Museum of the African Diaspora 685 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    (Un)documented Black Poetics: Book Launch & Reading with Immigrant Poets Former poet-in-residence, Alan Pelaez Lopez, will celebrate their debut book, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a...

    $5 – $10