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  • SFJAZZ Poetry Festival

    SFJAZZ Center 201 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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...

    $15

  • Tom Raworth (1938–2017): A Celebration of His Life and Work

    Maude Fife Room, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Join us as we remember poet and friend Tom Raworth, with readings and tributes, at UC Berkeley's Maud Fife Room in Wheeler Hall. Miles Champion, poet...

    Free

  • Mohsin Hamid

    Nourse Theatre 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    In Conversation with Pico Iyer   Mohsin Hamid is the author of the international bestsellers Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, both finalists for the Man Booker Prize. His first...

    $29

  • Mohsin Hamid with Pico Iyer

    Nourse Theatre 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Mohsin Hamid is the author of the international bestsellers Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, both finalists for the Man Booker Prize. His first novel, Moth Smoke, won the Betty...

    Free

  • Poetry/Karaoke Dinner

    PACC - Pakistani American Community Center 372 Turquoise St, Suite # 4, Milpitas, CA, United States

    This is an informal monthly program on every second Friday of the month. You can recite your favorite poem or sing a song. Dinner is...

    $10

  • Bay Area Poets Coalition

    Strawberry Creek Lodge 1320 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    BAPC OPEN POETRY READING Upcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018:   March 3, April 7, May 5, June 2 3:00 - 5:00 PM STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE...

    Free

  • Hand, De Leon, Robles w/ Fellinis

    SFJAZZ Center 201 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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...

    $15

  • SFJAZZ Poetry Festival

    SFJAZZ Center 201 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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...

    $15

  • SFJAZZ Poetry Festival

    SFJAZZ Center 201 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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...

    $15

  • Lone Glen: Poetry w/Chernoff/Edgerton/Gibbons

    Temescal Art Center 511 48th Street, Oakland

    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...

    $5 – $10

  • SFJAZZ Poetry Festival

    SFJAZZ Center 201 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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...

    $15

  • NoViolet Bulawayo, Gina Berriault Award for Fiction, reading

    The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    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...

    Free

  • Mills College MFA Alumnae Reading & Reception

    Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    Reception at 5:15 pm for newly admitted graduate students, followed by readings

    Free

  • Andrea Abi-Karam

    Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    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...

    Free

  • Michelle Cruz Gonzales

    Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    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...

    Free

  • Steve Zolno: The Future of Democracy

    Rockridge Branch 5366 College Avenue, Oakland, CA, United States

    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...

    Free

  • Odd Salon: Scandal

    Public Works 161 Erie Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    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...

    $15 – $25

  • Perfectly Queer: National Poetry Month

    Dog Eared Books Castro 489 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Join us in celebrating National Poetry Month with San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck, Aja Couchois Duncan, Luna Merbruja, and Lourdes Figueroa

    Free

  • Weekday Wanderlust

    Weekday Wanderlust 562 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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...

    Free

  • The Spooky, Strange, and Magical History of San Francisco, Volume 3

    Tenderloin Museum 398 Eddy St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    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...

    $10

  • Maw Shein Win

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

    Maw Shein Win   celebrating the release of her new collection of poetry Invisible Gifts: Poems published by Manic D Press Themes of vulnerability and...

    Free

  • Literary Cafe Presents: SEAN PENN

    The Osher Marin JCC 200 North San Pedro Road, San Rafael

    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...

    $42 – $60

  • Rachel Levin

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

    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...

    Free

  • Emerging Writers Festival

    Fromm Hall - FR 120 - Xavier Auditorium, USF 2130 Fulton St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    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...

    Free
  • The Black Aesthetic

    A Talk with The Black Aesthetic

    Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive 2155 Center St., Berkeley, CA, United States

    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...

    Free

  • This is Now with Angie Coiro Presents: Leslie Jamison on Alcoholism

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    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...

    Free

  • Caspar Henderson

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

    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...

    Free

  • Meg Wolitzer / The Female Persuasion

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    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...

    Free