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  • January 2021

  • Thu 28

    Virtual Class: Wendy Walsh – Continuing the Journey with Dante’s Purgatorio (via Zoom)

    January 5, 2021 @ 3:30 pm - February 23, 2021 @ 5:30 pm PST

    Continue the journey with Dante on Zoom! Join Wendy Walsh for the reading and study of Purgatorio, the second cantica of Dante’s Commedia. Dante and Virgil begin...

  • Thu 28

    Rise & Shine: Winter 2021 | Series of Odes

    January 19, 2021 @ 9:00 am - March 9, 2021 @ 11:00 am PST
    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
  • Thu 28

    Sharpen Your Pencil: Elements of a Poem in Revision

    January 20, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - March 11, 2021 @ 9:00 pm PST
    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
  • Thu 28

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Anastasia Higginbotham, What You Don’t Know

    January 28, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Join us for a special virtual event with author and illustrator Anastasia Higginbotham whose new picture book, What You Don't Know: A Story of Liberated Childhood,...

  • Thu 28

    VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, K-Ming Chang

    January 28, 2021 @ 5:20 pm - 6:55 pm PST

    The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world...

  • Thu 28

    VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, K-Ming Chang

    January 28, 2021 @ 5:20 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world...

  • Thu 28

    Peter Gizzi in conversation with CA Conrad

    January 28, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Peter Gizzi reads from Now It's Dark: New Poems published by Wesleyan University Press ---- This is a virtual event that will be hosted by...

  • Thu 28

    VIRTUAL: Debut Authors Panel with Lupita Reads, featuring Benjamin Garcia, Emily Hashimoto & Poupeh Missaghi

    January 28, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Booksmith is very pleased to host a virtual event with a trio of debut authors in conversations about their new books: Benjamin Garcia (Thrown in the Throat), Emily Hashimoto (A...

  • Thu 28

    Jerald Walker & Kevin Cartwright: Zoom Event: How to Make a Slave and Other Essays

    January 28, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PST
    Virtual

    KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: Jerald Walker and Kevin Cartwright: A Zoom Event How to Make a Slave Finalist, 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction...

    $5 – $20
  • Sat 30

    Aida Salazar on Instagram Live IGTV

    January 30, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PST

    reading The Land of the Cranes, a heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a young Latinx girl who learns to hold on to hope and love even in...

  • Sat 30

    Virtual Class: Art History with Kerrin Meis – The Aesthetic Movement: The Cult of Beauty Revisited (via Zoom)

    January 30, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PST

    In their operetta Patience, Gilbert and Sullivan skewered the Aesthetic movement—the anti-industrial stance adopted by a talented and opinionated group of artists, poets, and architects that had...

  • Sat 30

    Barbara McHugh with Dorothy Edwards – Bride of the Buddha (Virtual Event)

    January 30, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Bride of the Buddha is a vivid portrayal of the life of Yasodhara—abandoned wife of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama—depicting her as a spiritual seeker in her...

  • Sat 30

    Conversations with Authors – Sherry L. Smith with Peter Coyote (Virtual Event)

    January 30, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Sherry L. Smith's Bohemians West is a revelatory biography of a radical romance at the dawn of the twentieth century. The opening years of the twentieth century...

  • February 2021

  • Tue 2

    Virtual Event: Annalee Newitz and Charles C. Mann

    February 2, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    JOIN US ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 AT 6PM PT WHEN ANNALEE NEWITZ IS JOINED BY CHARLES C. MANN FOR THE LAUNCH OF THEIR LATEST BOOK, FOUR LOST CITIES:...

  • Tue 2

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Gretel Ehrlich, Unsolaced

    February 2, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    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,...

  • Tue 2

    Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri | GGP Online Book Club

    February 2, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Please join us on Tuesday, February 2, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel...

  • Wed 3

    Virtual Event: Anna North and Esmé Weijun Wang

    February 3, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST
    online

    Join us on Wednesday, February 3rd at 6pm PT when Anna North is joined by Esmé Weijun Wang to discuss her latest novel, Outlawed, on...

    Free
  • Thu 4
    Kiki Petrosino

    Berkeley Lunch Poems: Kiki Petrosino

    February 4, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PST
    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
  • Thu 4

    The Life Beyond: A Conversation About Grief and Cancer with Authors and Survivors Christine Corrigan and Laraine Herring (Virtual Event)

    February 4, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Again: Surviving Cancer Twice with Love and Lists tells Christine Shields Corrigan's story of receiving a breast cancer diagnosis at forty-nine, and how that forces her,...

  • Thu 4

    Dispatches from the Race War

    February 4, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    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...

  • Thu 4

    VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, Lauren Groff

    February 4, 2021 @ 5:20 pm - 6:55 pm PST

    The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world...

  • Thu 4

    Dr. Larry Ward – America’s Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal (Virtual Event)

    February 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    "I am a drop in the ocean, but I'm also the ocean. I'm a drop in America, but I'm also America. Every pain, every confusion,...

  • Thu 4

    Dantiel W. Moniz in conversation with C Pam Zhang

    February 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    celebrating Dantial W. Moniz new novel Milk Blood Heat published by Grove Atlantic Press ---- This is a virtual event that will be hosted by...

  • Thu 4

    The Chicken Sisters: Author KJ Dell’Antonia in Conversation With Nancy Davis Kho

    February 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Please join us on Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 6 PM PST for an online discussion of one of Kathleen's recent favorites, THE CHICKEN SISTERS, with author KJ Dell'Antonia...

  • Thu 4

    Catana Chetwynd / In Love & Pajamas: A Collection of Comics about Being Yourself Together

    February 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Booksmith is thrilled to host a virtual event with #1 New York Times bestselling creator of Catana Comics, Catana Chetwynd (Snug and Little Moments of Love) for her third book In Love...

  • Thu 4

    The Chicken Sisters: Author KJ Dell’Antonia in Conversation With Nancy Davis Kho

    February 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Please join us on Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 6 PM PST for an online discussion of one of Kathleen's recent favorites, THE CHICKEN SISTERS, with author KJ Dell'Antonia...

  • Thu 4

    Lunar New Year Poetry and Calligraphy with Poets Michael Warr, Chun Yu, and Calligrapher Aiqin Zhou

    February 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST
    online

    Celebrate the Year of the Ox with us! Poets Michael Warr and Chun Yu read works in English and Chinese (Mandarin) that reflect the essence...

    Free – $25
  • Thu 4

    Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross: Black Women’s History of the US

    February 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PST
    Virtual

    KPFA Radio 94.1 FM and Marcus Books present: Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross A Black Women's History of the United States With Sabrina...

    $5 – $20
  • Thu 4
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    Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading Curated by Georgina Marie!!

    February 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST
    online

    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
  • Fri 5

    Zoom Forward! A Tribute to Jory Post

    February 5, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    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...

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