THE LONGEST RUNNING POETRY SLAM ON THE WEST COAST! Bringing you some of the best poetry from across the world every week since 1999, and...
SHOW US YOUR SPINES is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center. For a month QTIPOC writers...
Booksmith presents Catana Chetwynd, in San Francisco for the first time to present her new book, Snug. Come meet Catana and her boyfriend John! PLEASE NOTE: >> ...
Willow Glen Library 1157 Minnesota Avenue, San José, CA, 95125 (408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361 Free and open to the public. Kaecey McCormick is an author,...
We are pleased to present a sampling of “Poetry from Prisoners” incarcerated in California. Readers will include poets Rose Black and Ken Weisner, currently teaching...
reading from his new novel The Lucky Star: A Novel published by Viking/Penguin The National Book Award winning author returns to his original fictional territory–the...
Join us every other month at 7pm for a featured poet, an open mic and great drinks and treats! Alameda Poet Laureate Gene Kahane hosts....
There are themes and then there are THEMES and no one is surprised that REVENGE is absolutely a THEME. We imagine tales of murder and...
Berkeley Arts & Letters and The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley co-present the launch for the new book by Christine Carter, Ph.D., The New...
The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series opens 2020 with a double program featuring two remarkable poet/writers, each with significant work in disability poetics and activism. This...
Local writers Elwin Cotman, Vernon Keeve, and Adrienne Oliver read from their work. Elwin Cotman grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whee the post-industrial landscape was...
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. published by Basic Books This dual biography of Malcolm...
Bay Area Generations: Poets & Writers Salon Thursday, February 20, 2020 7-9 pm at Penelope's Coffee & Teas, Foster City A literary salon featuring curated...
Jenny Offill discusses her new novel Weather. Praise for Weather “This is so good. We are not ready nor worthy.”–Ocean Vuong “Jenny Offill conjures entire worlds...
reads from her new collection of essays, Try To Get Lost Through the author (TM)s travels in Europe and the United States, Try to Get Lost explores the...
Academy-award winning actress Diane Keaton has starred in some of the most memorable films of the past forty years, including the Godfather trilogy, Annie Hall, Manhattan, The First Wives...
A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in "The Chapel" at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided...
Jenny Offill, bestselling author of Dept of Speculation, visits Point Reyes to discuss her highly anticipated novel, Weather. Jenny will be in conversation with the...
The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series opens for 2020 with a double program featuring two remarkable poet/writers, each with significant work in disability poetics and activism....
The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series opens 2020 with a program featuring two remarkable poet/writers, each with significant work in disability poetics and activism. This event,...
Cliterary Salon is a monthly literary show focusing on work not traditionally prioritized in the mainstream by writers who subvert convention. To learn more, please...
Join us as we celebrate three amazing children's books: Sam! (written by Dani Gabriel, illustrated by Art of Robert Liu-Trujillo), I Am Sausal Creek/Soy El...
Stephen Ratcliffe (sound of wave in channel) and Kyle Schlesinger (A New Kind of Country) will be here reading from their newest books! ...
“American Sutra” discussion on author panel for the 2020 National Day of Remembrance. Time TBD. Sponsored by Oakland Asian Cultural Center and Eastwind Books of...
Ann Harleman will read from and discuss her new novel, TELL ME, SIGNORA. Kate Hagesfeld, a recent widow, travels to Italy just after 9/11 to...
Day of Remembrance: Duncan Ryuken Williams discusses his book, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War. Duncan Ryūken Williams...
ALAN KAUFMAN Alan Kaufman is a novelist and memoirist known for his storytelling power and who’s been not only praised by everyone from Dave Eggers,...
NEXT THERE: THERE 32 will be Saturday, February 22, 2020, at East Bay Booksellers, 5433 College Avenue in Oakland, guests TBA. THERE was featured prominently in the San Francisco...
Join us to celebrate the publication of Hurricane Music (Sean Negus) and Custody of the Eyes (Caroline Goodwin).
SEE BOTH SHOWS WITH A FULL EVENING WRISTBAND! Saturday February 22nd, 2020 at the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa, San Francisco, CA) Remember: Bang-O at...