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  • The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night Featuring Alan Harris

    PianoFight 144 Taylor St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Hosted by Jennifer Barone, Ingrid Keir, live jazz with Daniel Heffez, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. Open Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 6:45pm – 3min time limit, pick...

  • Carmen Giménez Smith

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Carmen Giménez Smith Tuesday, May 15, 2018, 7:00 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco   celebrating the release of Cruel Futures City...

    Free

  • GET LIT #36 (MUSIC BY MICHAEL ALSO)

    Ale Industries 3096 E 10th Street, Oakland, CA, United States

    IT'S OUR 3-YEAR ANNIVERSARY! Come celebrate 36 continuous months of Nomadic Press' Get Lit show! Started by J. K. Fowler and Annelyse Gelman three years ago, we have been graced with the...

    $10 – $25

  • Genny Lim, Kitty Tsui and Nellie Wong w/Bill Crossman on piano

    Bird & Beckett Books and Records 653 Chenery St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Nellie Wong was born and raised in Oakland. A long-time activist for radical social change and a retired office worker, Nellie was honored by Oakland...

  • Rahna Reiko Rizzuto / Shadow Child

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (Hiroshima in the Morning and Why She Left Us) for her new novel, Shadow Child. Please join us! Shadow Child is a gorgeous novel about...

    Free

  • Julia Dixon Evans

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Julia Dixon Evans discusses her new novel, How to Set Yourself on Fire. PRAISE FOR HOW TO SET YOURSELF ON FIRE “How to Set Yourself on Fire is...

    Free

  • Mark Greenside

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Mark Greenside Reads from (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living, a sequel of sorts to I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do), about which the San...

  • Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island

    Book Passage San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Wild Geese Sorrow is based upon new translations of the mostly anonymous poems carved into the men’s barracks walls at the Angel Island Immigration Station....

    Free

  • Keep Begin Detach: Yoko Ono

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    Keep Begin Detach: Multimedia Essays Come to EM Wolfman for an exploration of text and image, music and silence, meditation and performance. Inspired by Yoko...

  • Fundraiser for STREET SHEET SF

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Street Sheet, a local newspaper produced and distributed by homeless and/or low-income people. Adobe Bookstore is honored to host a fundraiser that will showcase the...

  • radical poesies: Steven Seidenberg + A’aron Heard + Tongo Eisen-Martin

    Institute Of advanced Uncertainty [I.O.U.] 296 Ivy Street, btwn. Gough and Franklin, San Francisco

    radical poesies Steven Seidenberg + A’aron Heard + Tongo Eisen-Martin Curated by Tongo Eisen-Martin Wednesday! May 16th Doors 6:30PM Program7PM FREE    

    Free

  • Michelle Tea

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Michelle Tea celebrating the release of her new book Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms from Feminist Press The razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas, a doomed...

    Free

  • Claudia Rankine at Stanford Live

    Bing Concert Hall 327 Lasuen St., Stanford, CA, United States

    African American poet Claudia Rankine speaks to the human condition in all its many manifestations. A winner of the 2016 MacArthur Fellowship and author of...

    $20

  • Townsend Walker / 3 Women, 4 Towns, 5 Bodies

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts Townsend Walker in conversation withMartha Conway about his new short story collection, 3 Women, 4 Towns, 5 Bodies. Townsend will read a story from the collection and...

    Free

  • Poets giovanni singleton and Carmen Gimenez Smith

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Born in New York, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from...

    Free

  • May Day, May Day–Lyrics & Dirges

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Jump from spring to summer with a literary reading that will leave you giddy and bubbly with. . . DeMareon Gipson Liz Green Barbara Jane...

  • Between Love and Obsession: Behind the Scenes of Israeli Mythology

    Contemporary Jewish Museum 736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Israeli novelist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, author of Waking Lions, talks about her debut novel, One Night, Markovitch. Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is the author of Waking Lions, a...

    Free – $14

  • William Middleton

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    William Middleton discussing the subject of his new book Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil published by...

    Free

  • Tao Lin / Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Booksmith hosts Tao Lin for his new book Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change. With Tao in conversation is The Believer's Ross Simonini -- please join us! Please note: this event begins...

    Free

  • InsideStoryTime: Persist

    The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United States

    Coming up: InsideStorytime SWAY at Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster St, Oakland, on Thursday May 17th, 7-9 pm, will feature, Kaitlin Solimine (Empire of Glass), Townsend Walker (3 Women 4...

    Free

  • Todd Robert Petersen presents IT NEEDS TO LOOK LIKE WE TRIED

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    Thursday, May 17 7pm EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Todd Robert Petersen to discuss his novel, It Needs to Look Like We Tried, on Tuesday, May 17th at 7pm. “Todd Robert...

  • Dorianne Laux + Joshua Mensch

    Falkirk Cultural Center 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael , CA, United States

    Free readings!

  • Glori Simmons and Dickson Lam

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Glori Simmons and Dickson Lam read from their latest works from Autumn House Press About Carry You   In Carry You, a Sunni museum official accidentally hits a Shiite child...

    Free

  • Ellen Forney / Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts Ellen Forney for Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life, the anticipated companion volume to her bestselling graphic memoir Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me,...

    Free

  • Poetry Flash presents Melissa Stein and C. Dale Young

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Melissa Stein’s new book of poems is Terrible Blooms. The New York Times says, “Ms. Stein reminds us that there is no honey—rough, or otherwise—without the sting.”...

    Free

  • YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES

    The Lost Church 65 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes... is an open mic event, a communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death...

    $10