Lone Glen: Poetry w/Chernoff/Edgerton/Gibbons
Temescal Art Center 511 48th Street, OaklandJoin us at Temescal Art Center in Oakland for our first Lone Glen of the season at 8 pm on Saturday, April 7th to celebrate...
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SFJAZZ Poetry Festival
SFJAZZ Center 201 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesCurated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Genny Lim, this year's festival will again feature the greatest poets of the Bay Area and beyond, centered on the...
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NoViolet Bulawayo, Gina Berriault Award for Fiction, reading
The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesJunot Díaz writes of Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo, "I knew this writer was going to blow up. Her honesty, her voice, her formidable command of...
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Mills College MFA Alumnae Reading & Reception
Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United StatesReception at 5:15 pm for newly admitted graduate students, followed by readings
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Andrea Abi-Karam
Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United StatesAndrea Abi-Karam is an Arab American genderqueer punk poet cyborg. Their first full-length book Extratransmission is forthcoming from Kelsey Street Press in early 2018. Abi-Karam’s previous work,The...
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Michelle Cruz Gonzales
Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United StatesMichelle Cruz Gonzales is the author of The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band. Before attending Mills College, Gonzales played drums...
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Steve Zolno: The Future of Democracy
Rockridge Branch 5366 College Avenue, Oakland, CA, United StatesWhat is democracy and where did it come from? Is it a new development or was it always present in human society? And perhaps the...
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Odd Salon: Scandal
Public Works 161 Erie Street, San Francisco , CA, United StatesTales of tawdry misadventure and outrageous revelations, secret sins, shocking sensations, and closets overbrimming with skeletons Curated by Tamar Baskind Artwork by Imogen Speer Tuesday, April 10...
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Perfectly Queer: National Poetry Month
Dog Eared Books Castro 489 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, United StatesJoin us in celebrating National Poetry Month with San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck, Aja Couchois Duncan, Luna Merbruja, and Lourdes Figueroa
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Weekday Wanderlust
Weekday Wanderlust 562 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesHello Wanderlusters. Mark your calendars for TUESDAY APRIL 10. We have a superb line-up waiting just for you with Julia Scott, John Ellis, and Amanda...
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The Spooky, Strange, and Magical History of San Francisco, Volume 3
Tenderloin Museum 398 Eddy St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesThe magician and raconteur Christian Cagigal returns to the Tenderloin Museum to share a freshly unearthed set of bizarre tales about San Francisco’s fantastic and...
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Maw Shein Win
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesMaw Shein Win celebrating the release of her new collection of poetry Invisible Gifts: Poems published by Manic D Press Themes of vulnerability and...
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Literary Cafe Presents: SEAN PENN
The Osher Marin JCC 200 North San Pedro Road, San RafaelActor, filmmaker, and political activist Sean Penn, discusses his most recent endeavor and first novel. Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff is a scorching, darkly...
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Rachel Levin
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesRachel Levin celebrates the release of her new book Look Big: And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds. About Look Big A humorous...
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Emerging Writers Festival
Fromm Hall - FR 120 - Xavier Auditorium, USF 2130 Fulton St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesTUESDAY, APRIL 10 7:45 – 9:30 p.m. Fromm Hall - FR 125 - Maraschi Room Elizabeth Greenwood is the author of the nonfiction book Playing Dead: A Journey...
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A Talk with The Black Aesthetic
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive 2155 Center St., Berkeley, CA, United StatesA Talk with The Black Aesthetic Wednesday / 4.11.18 / 12:00 Free, no ticket needed. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC --- The Black Aesthetic...
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This is Now with Angie Coiro Presents: Leslie Jamison on Alcoholism
Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United StatesLeslie Jamison is the author of the essay collection The Empathy Exams, a New York Times bestseller. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine and Harper's, among others, and she...
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Caspar Henderson
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesCaspar Henderson, author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, discusses his new book A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels. Praise...
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Meg Wolitzer / The Female Persuasion
The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United StatesTo be admired by someone we admire—we all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of being singled out by someone of esteem. But sometimes...
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Emerging Writers Festival
Fromm Hall - FR 120 - Xavier Auditorium, USF 2130 Fulton St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesWEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 7:30 – 9 p.m. Fromm Hall - FR 125 - Maraschi Room Patricia Horvath is the author of the memoir All the Difference (Etruscan Press). Her...
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Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. This month's readers TBD.
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Lewandowski Poet: Peter Balakian
Hammer Theater Center 101 Paseo De San Antonio Walk, San Jose, CA, United StatesWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Ozone Journal, Peter Balakian shares a reading and conversation with San José State University President Mary Papazian....
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Marcel Schwob: Chris Clarke and Kit Schluter
THE LAUNDRY 3359 26th Street, San FranciscoJoin translators Chris Clarke and Kit Schluter in an overdue celebration of the beguiling French writer Marcel Schwob, a cult phenomenon who secretly influenced a...
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Peter Balakian
Hammer Theater Center 101 Paseo De San Antonio Walk, San Jose, CA, United StatesLewandowski Poet In conjunction with Legacy of Poetry Day.
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Get Lit Spring Reading!
Aqus Petaluma 101 H St, Petaluma, CA, United StatesCome join us April 12 as we celebrate spring reads with a fun night of literary storytelling with featured readers Christine No, Patty Somlo and...
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Why There Are Words Presents: “Search”
Studio 333 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito , CA, United StatesJoin Why There Are Words on April 12th, 2018, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as six acclaimed authors read on the theme of “Search.” Doors...
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Leslie Jamison
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesLeslie Jamison discusses her new book, The Recovering: Intoxication And Its Aftermath. Praise for The Recovering "Leslie Jamison has written an honest and important book. It...
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Kathleen Belew
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesKathleen Belew discussing the subject of her new book Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America from Harvard University Press...
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Jami Attenberg & Friends / All Grown Up
The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United StatesJoin us as we celebrate the paperback launch of Jami Attenberg'sAll Grown Up, with local superheroes Charlie Jane Anders, Rachel Khong, and Esmé Weijun Wang all talking on the...
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Angel Dominguez and Kit Schluter
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive 2155 Center St., Berkeley, CA, United StatesTwo renowned poets, Dominguez and Schluter read their work.
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