Join us at our Uptown, Oakland, location for the much-anticipated release of Occasionally Accurate Science by July Westhale and Liz Laribee! It's going to be...
Curated 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...
Curated 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...
Join us at Temescal Art Center in Oakland for our first Lone Glen of the season at 8 pm on Saturday, April 7th to celebrate...
Curated 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...
Junot Díaz writes of Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo, "I knew this writer was going to blow up. Her honesty, her voice, her formidable command of...
Reception at 5:15 pm for newly admitted graduate students, followed by readings
Andrea 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...
Michelle 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...
What is democracy and where did it come from? Is it a new development or was it always present in human society? And perhaps the...
Tales 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...
Join us in celebrating National Poetry Month with San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck, Aja Couchois Duncan, Luna Merbruja, and Lourdes Figueroa
Hello 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...
The 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...
Maw Shein Win celebrating the release of her new collection of poetry Invisible Gifts: Poems published by Manic D Press Themes of vulnerability and...
Actor, filmmaker, and political activist Sean Penn, discusses his most recent endeavor and first novel. Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff is a scorching, darkly...
Rachel 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...
TUESDAY, 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...
A Talk with The Black Aesthetic Wednesday / 4.11.18 / 12:00 Free, no ticket needed. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC --- The Black Aesthetic...
Leslie 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...
Caspar 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...
To 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...
WEDNESDAY, 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...
Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. This month's readers TBD.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Ozone Journal, Peter Balakian shares a reading and conversation with San José State University President Mary Papazian....
Join translators Chris Clarke and Kit Schluter in an overdue celebration of the beguiling French writer Marcel Schwob, a cult phenomenon who secretly influenced a...
Lewandowski Poet In conjunction with Legacy of Poetry Day.
Come join us April 12 as we celebrate spring reads with a fun night of literary storytelling with featured readers Christine No, Patty Somlo and...
Join Why There Are Words on April 12th, 2018, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as six acclaimed authors read on the theme of “Search.” Doors...
Leslie 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...