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  • March 2020

  • Mon 23
    flier for Crossroads

    Crossroads: Stories of Queer Spirit

    March 23, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Welcome! Before joining the call, please read the full event description below--- CROSSROADS is a meeting place for all those who worship, pray, and make...

    Free
  • Mon 23
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    Escape From Quarantine Reading – a weekly online thing

    March 23, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

    a weekly digital gathering and poetry reading. join our weekly zoom chat to meet with friends without having to leave your house. this is a...

    Free
  • Thu 26
    Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in Conversation

    Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in Conversation

    March 26, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm PDT

    It's a tough time for local bookstores, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we're raising funds to help local Bay...

    Free – $100
  • Thu 26
    Online MoAD Open Mic

    Online MoAD Open Mic Night

    March 26, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    Museum of the African Diaspora 685 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Open Mic at MoAD is going virtual! Use this link to participate in the Open Mic online. You can sign up below to read, or...

    Free
  • Thu 26
    The Racket 40: Flight

    The Racket 40: Light

    March 26, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

    We can still remember celebrating our mother's 40th birthday with a cake shaped like a coffin and a bunch of people wearing underwear on their...

    Free
  • Thu 26
    flier for YG2D Zoom

    You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes – Santa Rosa

    March 26, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm PDT
    CA, United States

    You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes Online! an ONLINE Open Mic w/Ned Buskirk, the You're Going to Die Team & music from...

    $10 – $50
  • Fri 27
    flier for Nomadic Virtual Open Mic 2

    Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #2

    March 27, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

    Donate (only if you can swing it) by clicking on the "ticket" link or dropping donations via the $Cash app to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress 90...

    Free
  • Fri 27
    Poetry Reading and Live Drawing

    Poetry Reading and Live Drawing

    March 27, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Zoom Secession Virtual Happy Hour Friday, March 27, 6pm https://zoom.us/j/448811298 While we're closed until the city allows us to reopen (fingers crossed for April 9),...

    Free
  • Sat 28
    QT Writers Now

    Foglifter Presents: QT Writers Now—Virtual Reading & Open Mic

    March 28, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    As we protect our most vulnerable populations from COVID-19 and practice social distancing, Foglifter is responding to the marginalized communities’ necessary call to maintain connection...

    Free
  • Mon 30
    image for Escape from Quarantine Reading

    Escape From Quarantine Reading – a weekly online thing

    March 30, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

    a weekly digital gathering and poetry reading. join our weekly zoom chat to meet with friends without having to leave your house. this is a...

    Free
  • Mon 30
    THIS IS CHANCE jacket art

    Jon Mooallem in conversation with Nellie Bowles / This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together

    March 30, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

    Booksmith hosts Jon Mooallem (Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America) for his new book This Is Chance!: The...

    Free
  • Tue 31
    A [quarantined] Room of One’s Own- FICTION Night

    A [quarantined] Room of One’s Own- FICTION Night

    March 31, 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

    A Room of One’s Own- Virtual Reading Series- FICTION night If you, like the rest of us, are feeling isolated with a sudden and vast...

    Free
  • Tue 31
    front cover of We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders

    Linda Sarsour / We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders

    March 31, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

    PLEASE NOTE: Due to public health concerns around the coronavirus, this will be a virtual event live-streamed on our Facebook page. Please join us! Berkeley...

    Free
  • April 2020

  • Wed 1
    Lyric & Dirges: Ether Edition #1

    Lyric & Dirges: Ether Edition #1

    April 1, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Join us for the launching of Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition We have a new format and the same literary wonderland. Our inaugural virtual reading...

    Free
  • Thu 2
    Screenside Chat #1

    Screenside Chat #1: Thea Matthews, MK Chavez, JP Howard

    April 2, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Join us for our first Screenside Chat, a new limited-run series where Nomadic Press partners with other publishers to bring you "fireside chat"-esque engaging readings...

    Free
  • Thu 2

    YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES… ONLINE!

    April 2, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes Online! an ONLINE Open Mic w/Ned Buskirk & the You're Going to Die Team! Yeah. It's...

    Free
  • Thu 2

    Litquake on Lockdown: Poets for National Poetry Month

    April 2, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Join Litquake for our annual National Poetry Month celebration, for readings from some of America's best poets: Kazim Ali, Tongo Eisen-Martin, and Jane Hirshfield. Curated...

    Free
  • Fri 3
    Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #3

    Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #3

    April 3, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

    FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Donate (only if you can swing it) by clicking on the "ticket" link or dropping donations via the $Cash app to...

    Free
  • Fri 3

    Litquake on Lockdown: Beth Lisick and “Edie on the Green Screen”

    April 3, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Beth Lisick's canceled book tour for her debut novel transmogrifies into an at-home spoken word and music performance with her husband, musician and studio wizard...

    Free
  • Fri 3
    Nobody Will Tell You This But Me Cover Art

    Bess Kalb / Nobody Will Tell You This But Me

    April 3, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

    Booksmith hosts a live-stream with Bess Kalb for her new book Nobody Will Tell You This but Me. Please join us … we'll be streaming on our Facebook page!...

    Free
  • Sat 4

    Litquake on Lockdown: “Home Baked” Booty Shake

    April 4, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    In the seventies, when author Alia Volz was tucked into in her stroller, her parents ran Sticky Fingers Brownies, an underground bakery that delivered more...

    Free
  • Sun 5
    flier for Smack Dab Queer Open Mic Online!

    Smack Dab Queer Open Mic Online!

    April 5, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    We are giving ONLINE Smack Dab Queer & Trans Open Mic a try. Meet us on Zoom at our usual time :) Smack Dab Queer...

    Free
  • Sun 5

    Litquake on Lockdown: Met Cute–The Happy Side of Gay Romance

    April 5, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    In these stressful times, everyone could use a little fun. Because sometimes loving goes best with laughter, four bestselling authors of gay romance read from...

    Free
  • Mon 6

    Litquake on Lockdown: DIY Flash with the Flash Fiction Collective

    April 6, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    A reading of dozens of tiny stories from micro-fictionistas, including guest readers, plus a discussion of the Art of Flash and prompts—including visual prompts—to write...

    Free
  • Mon 6
    image for Escape from Quarantine Reading

    Escape From Quarantine Reading – a weekly online thing

    April 6, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

    a weekly digital gathering and poetry reading. join our weekly zoom chat to meet with friends without having to leave your house. this is a...

    Free
  • Tue 7
    Bonnie Tsui - author of Why We Smim

    WHY WE SWIM with Bonnie Tsui, Daniel Handler, and Andrew Sean Greer

    April 7, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Join these three author-swimmers in a discussion of Bonnie Tsui's fascinating new book, Why We Swim. Join us here at 5pm PDT on Tueday, April 7! https://us04web.zoom.us/j/476150449?pwd=MGtobFBYWXFINHVOUTAzNWdiYXpidz09

    Free
  • Tue 7

    Poet Tongo Eisen-Martin, live streamed from Bird & Beckett

    April 7, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Live Stream:  https://www.facebook.com/bird.and.beckett/ Tongo Eisen-Martin, a child of the Bay Area, seemed to emerge full blown on the Bay Area poetry front in 2015 with...

    Free
  • Tue 7

    Litquake on Lockdown: ZYZZYVA’s 35th Anniversary Issue Release

    April 7, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    Celebrate ZYZZYVA's 35th anniversary issue, to be released in early April, with contributors from the issue which includes such authors and writers as Bryan Washington,...

    Free
  • Wed 8
    Ayelet Waldman & Michael Chabon

    Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in Conversation

    April 8, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT

    A fundraiser for Pegasus Books About this Event It's a tough time for local bookstores, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place....

    Free – $100
  • Wed 8

    Litquake on Lockdown: We All Want to Change the World

    April 8, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    Fiction writers are often told – by teachers, editors, and agents – that politics and literature don’t mix. But in these times of political polarization...

    Free
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