• Samuel C. Woolley / The Reality Game

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

    discussing his new book The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth published by Public Affairs Fake news posts and...

    Free
  • Peggy Orenstein

    First Congregational Church of Berkeley 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Discussing Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity. Watch this space for info on ticketing. Wednesday, January 29,...

    TBD
  • Poet Danez Smith: Homie

    Jewish Community Center of San Francisco 3200 California St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Buy Tickets Co-presented with JCCSF Award-winning poet Danez Smith (Don’t Call Us Dead) is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects and performative power....

    $20
  • #we music – a talk and performance series of queer perspectives

    ProArts 150 Frank Ogawa Plaza (around the corner from Awaken Café), Oakland, CA

    Please join us for the seventh 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
  • Hand To Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT #105

    Rebound Bookstore 1611 4th Street, San Rafael, CA, United States

    Our first reading of the year will feature Marin Poet Laureate Terry Lucas, and poet Kat Crawford. Terry Lucas is the author of two full-length...

    Free
  • Lizzie O’Shea: Future Histories

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

    Lizzie O'Shea discusses her new book Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology. Praise for Future...

    Free
  • The Berkeley Slam ft Mycah Miller!

    The Starry Plough 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

    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...

    $7 – $10
  • You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes – Santa Rosa

    The Lost Church - Santa Rosa 427 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA, United States

    OUR FIRST You're Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes... OPEN MIC @ The Lost Church - Santa Rosa!!!!! WOOOoooOOOOOooooooooooOOOOOOO!!!! $10 in advance &...

    $10
  • Carmen Maria Machado with Esmé Weijun Wang

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

    in conversation and celebrating the release of Carmen Maria Machado's In The Dream House published by Graywolf Press In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's...

    Free
  • Orin & Manjula Martin, Fruit Trees for Every Garden

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

    Just in time for pruning season! Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Orin Martin, long-time manager of the renowned Alan Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz, and...

    Free
  • Literary Speakeasy’s toast to 2020

    Martuni's 4 Valencia St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    It’s time for the first Literary Speakeasy of 2020! We are celebrating with five amazing writers – Heather Bourbeau, Vincent Chu, Kevin Dublin, Lauren Ito,...

    Free
  • The Racket 38 : Flight

    Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    It's 2020! The future is here! We've got flying cars and robot butlers and harmless lasers that come out of our fingers because it's the...

    Free
  • The Map to Wholeness: A Conversation with Suzy Ross

    CIIS Public Programs 1453 Mission St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    ? ? ? The seemingly random events that comprise our lives can be understood as serving a higher purpose when examined through the proper lens;...

    $10
  • Poets Michael Gottlieb, Brian Ang, Sara Larsen, and James Sherry

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    Michael Gottlieb is the author of twenty books, most recently Mostly Clearing, from Roof Books, published in November 2019. Other recent titles include What We...

    Free
  • InsideStorytime: Convergence

    THE LAUNDRY 3359 26th Street, San Francisco

    InsideStorytime CONVERGENCE, featuring Mimi Lok (Last of Her Name), Nancy Au (Spider Love Song And Other Stories), Jeffrey Kingman (On A Road), Ari Moskowitz, and Munashe Kaseke, will take place at Laundry Gallery,...

    $5
  • Dani Shapiro & Abraham Verghese

    JCCSF 3200 California St , San Francisco, CA, United States

    What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? In 2016, celebrated...

    $30
  • Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye Live in San Francisco

    Brava Theater Center 2781 24th Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Project VOICE is proud to present a special evening of live performance with two world-renowned spoken word poets: Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye. Showtime :...

    $21 – $30
  • Bay Area Poets Coalition

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

    STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE 1320 Addison St., Berkeley, CA   Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave. between Acton & Bonar St. Parking on...

    Free
  • Carmen Maria Machado with Clara Sherley-Appel

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

    National Book Award Finalist and winner of the Shirley Jackson award, author of the bestselling Her Body and Other Parties , Carmen Maria Machado’s writing...

    $30
  • Poetry with Gregory Pond and Silvi Alcivar

    Black & Brown for Justice, Peace and Equality 474 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Gregory Pond was born in Brooklyn, NY to Panamanian parents and moved to San Francisco in the late 1970’s. Author and publisher of four books...

    Free
  • Obi Kaufmann and T.J. Stiles at Night of Ideas

    Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library 100 Larkin Avenune, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, United States

    Litquake is proud to again partner with San Francisco's annual edition of the global marathon event Night of Ideas (Nuit des Idées), at the city's Main Library. Presented...

    Free
  • The Wig Diaries Book Signing and Author Chat

    Alibi Bookshop 624 Marin Street, Vallejo

    Mary Ladd, author of The Wig Diaries, will host a book signing at Alibi Bookshop. The Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book,...

    Free
  • A Conversation with Tommy Orange: Author of There, There

    Manny's 3092 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, San Francisco, United States

    Tommy Orange, author of one of the best books of 2019, There, There, is coming to Manny's!! One of the 10 best books fo the...

    Free – $72
  • Smack Dab Queer Open Mic feat. Fureigh!

    Manny's 3092 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, San Francisco, United States

    Smack Dab Queer Open Mic is a free LGBTQIA community Our slogan? slogan “All ages, all genders, all the time.” We're the longest running QT...

    Free
  • Odd Mondays in February: Au, Felicelli, & Flynn-Goodlett

    Folio Books 3957 24th St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Nancy Au (Spider Love Song), Anita Felicelli (Chimerica), and Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (Harm's Way and Twice Shy) will read at Odd Mondays February 3, 6:30pm Folio...

    Free
  • Joshua Yaffa in conversation with Amanda Silverman

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts Joshua Yaffa for his new book Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putins Russia. He'll be in conversation with Mother Jones editorial director Amanda Silverman. Please...

    $10