For the month of September the LPP+ Resident is LA based Tom Comitta. In partnership with Et al.etc. Tom will do a reading for the closing of his residency with LPP.
Come to the Bay Area Poetry Marathon’s 100TPC event, and join other poets, musicians, artists, dancers, photographers, & performing artists, around the USA & across the planet!
Book Release.
His much anticipated new novel, Here I Am, will be published in September 2016.
Featuring: Gina Gold, Jane Harrison, Baruch Porras-Hernandez, Kate Schatz, Michelle Threadgould, and Maggie Tokuda-Hall.
A superbly crafted story, told in a voice as exquisite as it is boundlessly original, Mischling defies every expectation, traversing one of the darkest moments in human history to show us the way toward ethereal beauty, moral reckoning, and soaring hope.
Please join us for an evening of literary-laced bonhomie to celebrate Zach Wyner and his debut novel, What We Never Had, Rare Bird Books.
Join City Lights' Poetry Editor Garrett Caples, and Berkeley-based poet, Julien Poirier, for a presentation from their co-edited, posthumous Frank Lima anthology, Incidents of Travel in Poetry.
Celebrate the release of Holtland’s chapbook, INNER RIVER, available now from Drop Leaf Press.
Come together Friday, September 30 at 7pm to celebrate Mark's words and life.
$20 admission grants you entrance AND you get a book!!
Readings hosted by Peter Kline.
Free admission, all ages, full menu and bar.
She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Snow Child.
Danish writer Josefine Klougart reads from One of Us is Sleeping, the first of her novels translated into English.
Anne Raeff in conversation with Anthony Marra for the book launch of The Jungle Around Us, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
The Booksmith presents iO Tillett Wright / Darling Days at Second Act.
Vanessa Hua presents her debut collection, Deceit and Other Possibilities, in conversation with ZYZZYVA editor Oscar Villalon.
A reading with California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia and McSweeney's poets Zubair Ahmed and Rebecca Lindenberg.
Anthony Marra, Kyle Boelte, and student contributors Isaac Schott-Rosenfield, Sian Ee, and Emma Hardison join us to celebrate the 12th annual installment of the annual Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology.
Sign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly, so if you want to perform, you’d better get there early!
Translator Deborah Smith in conversation with South Korean writer Bae Suah about her novel, A Greater Music.
Billy Collins is the first poet since Robert Frost who has managed to combine high critical acclaim with broad popular appeal.
Admission: $5 presale, $7–$10 at the door.
Lindsey Boldt, Brandon Brown, and Sara Larsen.
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
Readings and music!
Novelists Laura J. Merrell, Kate Jessica Raphael, and Hilary A. Zaid read from new fiction at Perfectly Queer Fall Fiction.
Readings and music!
Lines and lyrics from Litquake Nation! Enjoy line breaks during your lunch break, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors.