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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
It's a tough time for local bookstores, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we're raising funds to help local Bay...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
With unprecedented student debt keeping an entire generation from realizing the "American Dream," this book sounds a warning about how that debt may undermine both...
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...
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...
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:...
You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes Online! an ONLINE Open Mic w/Ned Buskirk, the You're Going to Die Team & music from...
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...
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),...
During Women's History month 2019, a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded...
The Bindery hosts a special afternoon of interrelated, genre-crossing collaborations: a book of sonnets and letters, an essay collection, and a film, all of which investigate...
As we protect our most vulnerable populations from COVID-19 and practice social distancing, Foglifter is responding to the marginalized communities’ necessary call to maintain connection...
Jane Hirshfield reads from her new collection of poems, Ledger. About Ledger: From one of our most celebrated contemporary poets--long-listed for the National Book Award...
Scandal is "an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage." Whether it's the short skirt your mom wore,...
Bay Area Antioch Reading Series is a quarterly reading series curated and sponsored by alumni of Antioch University MFA Program in Creative Writing. BAARS no.2...
Bring a book, bring a friend, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club, there's no assigned reading. All books and all ages...
Bring a book, bring a friend, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club, there's no assigned reading. All books and all ages...
Booksmith hosts Jon Mooallem (Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America) for his new book This Is Chance!:...
Aaron Shurin is the author of fourteen books of poetry and prose, most recently The Blue Absolute, just out from Nightboat Books. Other works include:...