Rise & Shine: Winter 2021 | Series of Odes
Rise & Shine is a generative poetry workshop presented by Surprise the Line, hosted by Nancy Lynée Woo. Started in April 2020, Rise & Shine...
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6 events,
Sharpen Your Pencil: Elements of a Poem in Revision
Do you want your poems to sing more sweetly? Resonate more deeply? Read more beautifully? In this 8-week craft workshop, you will learn structured techniques...
$250
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Ismail Muhammad & Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Ismail Muhammad & Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 2:00pm via Zoom Ismail Muhammad is the reviews editor for The Believer, a staff writer at the Millions, a contributing editor at ZYZZYVA, and a board member at...
Free
7 events,
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Virtual Event: Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter with Raina Telgemeier
Virtual Event: Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter with Raina Telgemeier
JOIN US ON TUESDAY, MARCH 2 AT 5PM PT FOR THE LAUNCH OF MEGAN WAGNER LLOYD AND MICHELLE MEE NUTTER'S BOOK, ALLERGIC, WITH RAINA TELGEMEIER ON ZOOM! Zoom Login...
6 events,
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Online Literary Seminar: Home Movie by Jerry Burger
Online Literary Seminar: Home Movie by Jerry Burger
THIS SESSION IS ONLINE Literary Seminar; Home Movie by Jerry Burger Join Kimberly (and Jerry!) for a BONUS LITERARY SEMINAR Not only is ”Home Movie”...
11 events,
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Berkeley Lunch Poems: Mary Jo Bang
Berkeley Lunch Poems: Mary Jo Bang
Berkeley Lunch Poems A noontime poetry reading series Readings will take place remotely for the 2020-2021 academic year. Zoom links will be available approximately two...
Free
6 events,
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Melissa Valentine
Melissa Valentine
Friday, March 5, 2021 | 5:00 pm PDT | Zoom (RSVP to receive the event link) Melissa Valentine is an award-winning writer from Oakland, California,...
Free
10 events,
Using Invented and Foreign Languages as Tools for World Building: A Fiction Workshop with Rita Bullwinkel
A dynamic Fiction Workshop facilitated by author, Rita Bullwinkel. This workshop will be held every Saturday 10 AM - 12 PM from Mar 6 -...
$250
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Alexandria Giardino on Instagram IGTV
Alexandria Giardino on Instagram IGTV
A young girl and an old tree learn from each other how to find their purpose and foster healing in the world.
6 events,
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Suzanne Simard: Pioneering scientist discusses her anticipated book, Finding the Mother Tree
Suzanne Simard: Pioneering scientist discusses her anticipated book, Finding the Mother Tree
Suzanne Simard, a pioneering scientist who has changed the way we understand forest ecosystems, joins us to discuss her highly anticipated first book, Finding the Mother...
8 events,
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James Canton Discusses his new book, The Oak Papers
James Canton Discusses his new book, The Oak Papers
James Canton joins us from the UK to discuss his book, The Oak Papers (HarperOne). "A profound meditation on the human need for connection with nature, as...
8 events,
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Sister Souljah and Sabrina Jacobs: A Zoom Event: Life After Death
Sister Souljah and Sabrina Jacobs: A Zoom Event: Life After Death
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM and Marcus Books present: Sister Souljah and Sabrina Jacobs: A Zoom Event Life After Death by the bestselling author of...
$5 – $20.
5 events,
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Jeff Hawkins with Anil Ananthaswamy
Jeff Hawkins with Anil Ananthaswamy
This event is online. In a book that biologist Richard Dawkins calls “exhilarating,” author, neuroscientist and engineer Jeff Hawkins unveils a new theory of intelligence...
11 events,
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Social Listening #4: Nathaniel Mackey & Fred Moten
Social Listening #4: Nathaniel Mackey & Fred Moten
Acclaimed poets and scholars, Nathaniel Mackey and Fred Moten will read from their poetry in the return of the We Are the Voices “Social Listening”...
Free
2 events,
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Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #50
Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #50
90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9 If you enjoy spaces like this...
Free – $200
5 events,
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VIRTUAL: Babylon Salon presents Roberto Lovato, Matt Bell, Elizabeth Geoghegan & Paulo K Tiról
VIRTUAL: Babylon Salon presents Roberto Lovato, Matt Bell, Elizabeth Geoghegan & Paulo K Tiról
Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to partner with Babylon Salon for their Spring event, featuring readings by Roberto Lovato, Matt Bell, Elizabeth Geoghegan & Paulo K Tiról! Please note: this is a free, virtual...
3 events,
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Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and the Sun
A magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro—author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. Klara and the Sun,...
4 events,
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Demystifying Publishing
Demystifying Publishing
You know you want to publish a book—but you're not sure how to take the first step, or even what the first step is. (“Write...
$10
12 events,
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Donna Leon
Donna Leon
This event is online. Guests who pre-order a book at the time of registration will also receive temporary access to a post-event recording of this...
9 events,
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Alta Live: Denise Hamilton
Alta Live: Denise Hamilton
In Speculative Los Angeles, bestselling author and Alta contributor Denise Hamilton reimagines her hometown in dramatically disparate ways by commissioning 13 stories from some of...
10 events,
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Reading: Crystal Williams & Yona Harvey
Reading: Crystal Williams & Yona Harvey
This Poetry Reading Series provides a unique opportunity to hear diverse and unusual sets of readers, in this case pairing long-time friends who rarely have...
Free
7 events,
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Afternoon Literary Seminar: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Afternoon Literary Seminar: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
THIS SESSION IS ONLINE The Color Purple by Alice Walker Wow do you owe it to yourself to (re)read The Color Purple. The linguistic richness,...
6 events,
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Book Launch for Neon: A Light History (East Coast and European audiences)
Book Launch for Neon: A Light History (East Coast and European audiences)
East Coast and European audiences are invited to celebrate the book launch of Neon: A Light History About this Event Join us for the virtual...
Free
3 events,
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Sandra Salsbury on Crowdcast
Sandra Salsbury on Crowdcast
virtually launching Best Friend in the Whole World, a charming picture book about compassion and friendship in which a lonely rabbit, a quiet pinecone, and their perfect bond are...
4 events,
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Virtual Event: Kim Addonizio and Bob Hicok
Virtual Event: Kim Addonizio and Bob Hicok
Join us on Monday, March 22nd at 6pm PT when Kim Addonizio joins us to discuss her latest collection, Now We're Getting Somewhere, with Bob...
Free
9 events,
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Melanie Challenger
Melanie Challenger
Melanie Challenger is joined by Paul Greenberg for a conversation about her new book, How to Be Animal: A New History of What it Means to...
3 events,
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Carla Malden – Shine Until Tomorrow (Online Event)
Carla Malden – Shine Until Tomorrow (Online Event)
Social misfit Mari Caldwell desperately wants to get on with her life. If only she could get there faster—specifically to Yale—and leave behind all the...
3 events,
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Jesse McCarthy
Jesse McCarthy
discussing his new book Who Will Pay Reparation On My Soul: Essays published by Liveright Books/W.W, Norton ---------- This is a virtual event that will...
5 events,
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HIGH DAWN 7: Ahsan / Montes / Low / Dennis
HIGH DAWN 7: Ahsan / Montes / Low / Dennis
Small Press Traffic and UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium present the seventh installment of HIGH DAWN, a reading series featuring poets and musicians from the Bay...
Free
5 events,
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Southeast Asian American Poetry Reading with Monica Sok and Krysada Phounsiri
Southeast Asian American Poetry Reading with Monica Sok and Krysada Phounsiri
Monica Sok and Krysada Phounsiri will be joined by youth poets from Oakland's Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants and UC Berkeley's Southeast Asian Student...
3 events,
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Barbara Hamby and Barbara Ras
Barbara Hamby and Barbara Ras
Poetry Flash presents a virtual poetry reading by Barbara Hamby, Holoholo, and Barbara Ras, The Blues of Heaven, online via Zoom, free, 3:00 pm PDT (Register to attend:...
Free
5 events,
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VIRTUAL: Launch for Ji Hyang Padma / Field of Blessings: Ritual & Consciousness in the Work of Buddhist Healers
VIRTUAL: Launch for Ji Hyang Padma / Field of Blessings: Ritual & Consciousness in the Work of Buddhist Healers
Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Ji Hyang Padma and her new book Field of Blessings: Ritual & Consciousness in the...
3 events,
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Claudio Saunt & Mickey Huff: Unworthy Republic: A Zoom event
Claudio Saunt & Mickey Huff: Unworthy Republic: A Zoom event
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents CLAUDIO SAUNT & MICKEY HUFF: A Zoom Event Unworthy Republic: Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory...
$5 – $20
5 events,
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Berkeley Lunch Poems: Shane McCrae
Berkeley Lunch Poems: Shane McCrae
Berkeley Lunch Poems A noontime poetry reading series Readings will take place remotely for the 2020-2021 academic year. Zoom links will be available approximately two...
3 events,
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Aiden Thomas
Aiden Thomas
Friday, April 2, 2021 | 5:00 pm PDT | Zoom (RSVP to receive the event link) Aiden Thomas is a YA author with an MFA...
Free
3 events,
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Jillian C York in conversation with Ben Tarnoff
Jillian C York in conversation with Ben Tarnoff
discussing Jillian York's new book Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech under Surveillance Capitalism published by Verso Books This is a virtual event that...