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    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    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...

    Free

  • The Fire Thieves Honor Sacred Ground

    Oakland Peace Center 111 Fairmount Ave, Oakland, CA

    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...

    Free

  • Book Celebration: Synchronicity by Tureeda Mikell

    Marcus Books 3900 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Oakland, CA, United States

    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...

    Free
  • photo from My Life, My Stories at The Bindery

    My Life, My Stories / Real life. Told by SF seniors.

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    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...

  • Omnidawn Spring Publication Party

    Omnidawn Spring Books 2020

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley

    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...

    Free
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    Crossroads: Stories of Queer Spirit

    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...

    Free
  • Robert Reich

    Robert Reich with Astra Taylor

    Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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...

    $29
  • front cover of No Fascist USA

    Hilary Moore & James Tracy

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

    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...

    Free

  • Zach Norris, We Keep Us Safe at Bookshop Santa Cruz

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    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...

    Free

  • Phyllis Grant in Conversation with Julia Cosgrove

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

    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...

    Free
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    Alexandra Mattraw with Tiff Dressen and Mah Shein Win

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

    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...

    Free

  • #we : queer perspectives

    Pro Arts Gallery 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA, United States

    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...

    Free of charge and a hat will be passed

  • The Penelope Poems

    The Marsh 1062 Valencia St, San Francisco

    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...

    $15

  • Cancelled: Adrienne Miller: In the Land of Men

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

    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...

    Free
  • Online MoAD Open Mic

    Online MoAD Open Mic Night

    Museum of the African Diaspora 685 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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...

    Free

  • Canceled: Geometry of Shadows: Stefania Heim on Giorgio de Chirico

    Center for the Art of Translation office 582 Market St #700, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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...

    Free
  • front cover of Margery Kempe

    Robert Glück

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

    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...

    Free
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    Naomi Shihab Nye

    Student Union Theater, San Jose State University 1 Washington Square, San Jose , CA, United States

    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...

    $5 – $10
  • The Racket 40: Flight

    The Racket 40: Light

    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...

    Free

  • Poetry Roundelay w/ JOHN LEONARD

    O'Hanlon Center for the Arts 616 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley, CA, United States

    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...

    $10
  • front cover of Thin Places

    Jordan Kisner

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

    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...

    Free

  • Jordan Kisner and Esmé Weijun Wang at Green Apple Books

    Green Apple Books 9th Avenue 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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:...

    Free
  • flier for Nomadic Virtual Open Mic 2

    Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #2

    Donate (only if you can swing it) by clicking on the "ticket" link or dropping donations via the $Cash app to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress 90...

    Free
  • Poetry Reading and Live Drawing

    Poetry Reading and Live Drawing

    Zoom Secession Virtual Happy Hour Friday, March 27, 6pm https://zoom.us/j/448811298 While we're closed until the city allows us to reopen (fingers crossed for April 9),...

    Free