Rise & Shine: Winter 2021 | Series of Odes

Virtual

Rise & Shine is a generative poetry workshop presented by Surprise the Line, hosted by Nancy Lynée Woo. Started in April 2020, Rise & Shine...

Free

Sharpen Your Pencil: Elements of a Poem in Revision

Virtual

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

VIRTUAL EVENT: Gretel Ehrlich, Unsolaced

Gretel Ehrlich, author of the enduring classic The Solace of Open Spaces, will share her new book Unsolaced—a wondrous meditation on how water, light, wind, mountain, bird,...

Berkeley Lunch Poems: Kiki Petrosino

online

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

Dispatches from the Race War

Essays on racial flashpoints, white denial, violence, and the manipulation of fear in America today. "What Tim Wise has brilliantly done is to challenge white...

Zoom Forward! A Tribute to Jory Post

Join us online for a tribute to Jory Post, beloved Bookshop friend and champion of the written word. From coordinating Santa Cruz's Open Read to producing...

Words out Loud Spoken Word Series

Virtual

Derek N. Otsuji and Mark Tarren read from their poetry. Include open mic and literary trivia quiz. Derek N. Otsuji is the author of The Kitchen of Small Hours, winner...

Free

Generation Rising Book Launch

Join us for the book launch of “Generation Rising: A New Politics of Southeast Asian American Activism” with author Loan Thi Dao and Providence Youth...

Rabbit Island Launch

online

Rabbit Island Launch Virtual Event Join Community Bookstore and Two Lines Press for an event celebrating Elvira Navarro’s Rabbit Island, a collection of stories that traverse the fickle, often terrifying...

Free

This is Now: Susan Liautaud

This event is online. If you’re trying to do the right thing but you’re not sure how, you’re not alone. CRISPR. Robot caretakers. COVID-19. Voting....

Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson is joined in conversation by Robin Sloan to discuss his latest novel, The Ministry for the Future (Orbit Books). "If I could get policymakers,...

VIRTUAL EVENT: Ada Calhoun, Why We Can’t Sleep

Join us for a virtual event with Ada Calhoun who will discuss We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis (available in paperback on January 19th), an in-depth...