Representation in 2020: A Night of Artists Focusing on Equitable Representation featuring Paolo Bicchieri, reading from his new book Sword in the Darkness, Nesley Rojo,...
Dennis Phillips and George Albon read from their latest works, Mappa Mundi and Lyric Multiples. About Mappa Mundi Like the medieval maps from which MAPPA MUNDI takes its...
ALAN KAUFMAN Alan Kaufman is a novelist and memoirist known for his storytelling power and who’s been not only praised by everyone from Dave Eggers,...
Saturday, March 21 2020, at East Bay Booksellers, 5433 College Avenue in Oakland, featuring Julia Flynn Siler, Devi S. Laskar and Sunisa Manning, plus musical...
The 10th edition of the Fire Thieves makes it's only foray into the East Bay at The Chapel at the Oakland Peace Center with featured...
Join us as we continue our Oakland celebration of Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine by Tureeda Mikell at the nation's oldest black bookstore, Marcus...
Join us for an evening of learning and listening, hosted by My Life, My Stories! The theme is Family. My Life, My Stories is a local non-profit...
Our Omnidawn book parties are legendary! Join us to get a first look at their latest titles. Hear great readings and meet the poets: Desirée...
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...
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...
TICKETS To purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 This event appears in the series Social Studies Robert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of...
celebrating the release of No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's Movements by Hilary Moore and James Tracy (forward by...
ookshop Santa Cruz and the NAACP of Santa Cruz County welcome Zach Norris, executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, for a discussion and signing...
discussing Grant's just-published book Everything is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes. "What a beautiful, rich, and poetic memoir this is. Phyllis Grant writes of...
celebrating the release of Alexandra Mattraw's new poetry collection We fell into Weather Published by Cultural Society What has been said about We fell into...
Please join us for the eighth installment of #we, a talk and performance series of queer perspectives hosted by Richard Loranger. Each event features two...
Poet Patti Trimble and musician and composer Peter Whitehead merge their considerable skills to present a one-night theater-length spoken-word piece: The Penelope Poems. At The Marsh...
Please note: this event has been cancelled. Adrienne Miller discusses her new memoir, In the Land of Men, with Dave Eggers. Praise for In the...
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...
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...
Poet and translator Stefania Heim joins Olivia Sears to talk about Giorgio de Chirico’s Italian poetry, visual and verbal juxtapositions, and interlingual negotiations. AUTHOR Giorgio...
celebrating the new edition of Margery Kempe by Robert Glück, introduction by Colm Toibin published by New York Review Books First published in 1994, Robert...
On Thursday, March 26, 2020 the Center for Literary Arts will present poet Naomi Shihab Nye at the Student Union Theatre at 7PM. The reading...
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...
With unprecedented student debt keeping an entire generation from realizing the "American Dream," this book sounds a warning about how that debt may undermine both...
A gathering for those who write and/or are interested in poetry! Local poet John Leonard will introduce featured poet Chris Spark who will do a...
Jordan Kisner discusses her new essay collection, Thin Places: Essays From In Between. Praise for Thin Places “Jordan Kisner’s essays are like intricate tattoos: etched with...
Jordan Kisner discusses her new essay collection, Thin Places: Essays From In Between with Esmé Weijun Wang. Praise for Thin Places “Jordan Kisner’s essays are like intricate tattoos:...
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...
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