Frank B. Wilderson, III is an award-winning writer, poet, scholar, activist and emerging filmmaker. Dr. Wilderson spent five years in South Africa as an elected official...
Heather June Gibbons is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize and published by the...
4:30pm The Poetry Center presents a solo reading and conversation with Annie Finch at The Poetry Center San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue San...
Jan Steckel will read from her new poetry book Like Flesh Covers Bone at Poetry Express, hosted by Bruce Bagnell, with open mic.
Tuesday February 19, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room David Marriott is originally from the UK, but now lives in Oakland, California....
reading from The Hundred Wells of Salaga: A Novel published by Other Press Based on true events, a story of courage, forgiveness, love, and freedom...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Sandy Allen to discuss A Kind of Miraculous Paradise, on Tuesday, February 19th at 7pm. She will joined in conversation by friend of the store Rahawa...
Dani Shapiro returns to Mrs. Dalloway's to present Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love. "Identity is frail business, and in her searing story, Dani...
GennaRose Nethercott’s book The Lumberjack’s Dove (Ecco/HarperCollins) was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series for 2017. She is also the lyricist...
Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 Marlon James is the author of the novels A Brief History of Seven Killings, John Crow’s Devil, and The Book of Night Women, all...
Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse How are individuals and groups racially classified, what...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse How are individuals and groups racially classified, what are the meanings attached to different racial categories,...
GennaRose Nethercott discusses her new collection, The Lumberjack's Dove with Miriam Bird Greenberg. Also featuring live shadow puppetry! “Serious art does not need to be weighty or...
reads from Daughter of Moloka'i, the sequel to his bestselling Moloka'i.
It was a simple test. Yet, the course of her life changed forever. Dani Shapiro, the award-winning author of bestselling novels like Hourglass, Devotion, and...
Lyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to...
Meet Jasmine Guillory, a writer, lawyer and Oaklander who has earned enthusiastic praise for her recent novels The Wedding Date and The Proposal. New York...
"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms." -Muriel Rukeyser Reading starts at 7:30 pm. Light refreshments and conversation at 7:00 pm. Join us...
reading from Sea Monsters: A Novel published by Catapult Press Pulsing to the soundtrack of Joy Division, Nick Cave, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, an...
Thursday, February 21 - 7:00 pm The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University I eat crumbs out of the baby's neck I'm glad...
Gloria Steinem in conversation with Favianna Rodriguez, moderated by Lauren Schiller. Thursday, February 21, 2019, 7 p.m. The Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street, San Francisco,...
Marina Mularz discusses her new story collection, Welcome to Freedom Point. Praise for Welcome to Freedom Point "Fresh, witty, delightfully weird, Welcome to Freedom Point is equally infused...
Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny) is a new San Francisco comedy hour at The Bindery in the Haight district. Edna and her friends are trapped...
Oakland poet and actor, George Higgins, is a Cave Canem Fellow whose poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Pleiades, Nimrod, and others. About his...
George Higgins is an Oakland poet and actor. About his first book There, There (White Violet Press, 2013), Joan Aleshire wrote, “this book deepens our knowledge of how...
THERE 28 will be Friday, February 22, 2019, featuring brilliant Oakland memoirist Faith Adiele, equally amazing memoirist Reyna Grande, and poet MK Chavez, also of...
Humanities West brings together a panel of noted scholars and performers for a two-day program of lectures, dramatic readings and music to celebrate and explore...
James Cagney is a poet from Oakland. He has performed in venues and museums throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. His first book, Black...
Saturday February 23rd, 2019 at the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa, San Francisco, CA) Remember: Bang-O at 6:00 PM, Stories at 7:00 PM (NOTE: This is...