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  • You’re Going To Die

    The Lost Church 65 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES... Thursday, May 9, 2019 7:30 PM  10:30 PM The Lost Church (map) You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose...

    $10

  • Have a Poet for Lunch: Brandon Brown

    Contemporary Jewish Museum 736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Poet Brandon Brown presents work in dialogue with the exhibition "Show Me as I Want to Be Seen." Many of the poets speaking in this...

    Free – $14

  • StageWrite presents: WORD! Short Plays by Short People

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

    Come see original plays written by fifth graders from SFUSD, inspired by works of visual art at the de Young Museum, and performed by professional...

    $10 – $40

  • Writers with Drinks

    Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Saturday, May 11, 2019: Mallory O'Meara (The Lady From the Black Lagoon) Kate Hope Day (If, Then) Joanna Robinson (Vanity Fair) Andrea Lawlor (Paul Takes...

    $5

  • GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets, artists, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. To participate in...

  • Loteria 2

    LOTERIA READING SERIES, No. 2: La Muerte, El Nopal, La Sirena

    3rd Floor McRoskey Mattress Loft 1687 Market Street, San Francisco

    WILLIE PERDOMO JOSIAH LUIS ALDERETE BARABARA JANE REYES Curated by ➬ MK CHAVEZ    SUNDAY, MAY 12th, 2019   Doors ➬ 4PM | Program ➬ 4:30PM FREE ENTRY...

    Free

  • Jo Lendle

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

    Seagull Books, in conjunction with City Lights and the Goethe Institut San Francisco present Jo Lendle reading from and speaking about All The Land by...

  • Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake at Jessie Square

    jessie Square 536 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    The monthly collaboration between Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival features an array of Bay Area poets and musicians. Enjoy...

    Free

  • New Queer Books at Perfectly Queer San Francisco

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

    Charlie Jane Anders, Sara Cahill Marron, Joseph Cassara, and Baruch Porras-Hernandez read from their new books at Perfectly Queer San Francisco on Tuesday, May 14,...

  • Elizabeth Acevedo

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Young Adults 14-17! Elizabeth Acevedo presents With the Fire on High, a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed...

  • Julie Orringer and Michael Chabon

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

    Julie Orringer (The Invisible Bridge) joins Michael Chabon (Moonglow) for a conversation about The Flight Portfolio, Orringer’s new historical novel set in occupied Europe and...

    $30

  • Book Launch: Aatif Rashid | Portrait of Sebastian Khan

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    About the Book Sebastian Khan is 380 days away from the end of college. An art history major who’s as much a connoisseur of members...

  • Aysegül Savas

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

    Aysegül Savas discusses her new novel, Walking on the Ceiling. Praise for Walking on the Ceiling “Ayşegül Savaş is an enormous new talent who writes...

  • Red Light Lit

    PianoFight 144 Taylor St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Red Light Lit is a mashup of photography, poetry, and prose set to a live score, featuring the photography of Brittany Powers. The reading explores...

    $15 – $20

  • Namwali Serpell

    MoAD 685 Mission St, San Francisco, CA

    Litquake and MoAD present... Namwali Serpell’s electrifying debut, THE OLD DRIFT, is the first novel ever to tell the story of Zambia from its very beginnings to the present...

  • Saskia Vogel

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

    celebrating the release of her new novel Permission published by Coach House Books A grieving young woman learns something new about love from a dominatrix...

  • JARED DIAMOND In Conversation with Roy Eisenhardt

    Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    JARED DIAMOND In Conversation with Roy Eisenhardt Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Series: Social Studies  Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 Jared Diamond is a...

    $29

  • David Randall

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

    David Randall discusses his new book, Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague. Praise for Black Death at...

  • Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Wednesday, May 15, 7:30pm This Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series Lyrics & Dirges features a mix of...

  • Meet Journalist and Anti-Death Penalty Activist, Michael Kroll

    Oakland Public Library - Main Branch 125 - 14th Street, Oakland

    Michael Kroll is a prolific writer; he has published numerous magazine and newspaper pieces, some award-winning, most of which focus on our own criminal justice...

    Free

  • Namwali Serpell in conversation with Ismail Muhammad

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

    reading from and discussing her new novel The Old Drift from Hogarth Books On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the...

  • All the Sweeter

    Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Jean Minton joins us to discuss her book All the Sweeter: Families Share Their Stories of Adopting from Foster Care. About All The Sweeter All the...

  • InsideStorytime QUIDDITIES

    The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United States

        InsideStorytime QUIDDITIES, featuring Sarah Stone (Hungry Ghost Theater), Lynn Breedlove (Forty-Five Thought Crimes), Vincent Chu (Like A Champion), Cheryl Ossola (The Wild Impossibility), and others, will occur at Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster...

  • Happy Endings: Lights, Camera, Fashun

    Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul. What's gonna happen? Five...

  • Heather Hansman

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

    Heather Hansman discusses her new book, Down River: Into the Future of Water in the West. Praise for Down River “Heather Hansman’s account of her 730-mile solo...

  • Sixteen Rivers Anthology Celebration

    Falkirk Cultural Center 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael , CA, United States

    America, We Call Your Name: Poems of  Resistance and Resilience, was conceived in response to the 2016 presidential election, combines the voices of poets from across America—from...

  • Lara Prior-Palmer: Rough Magic

    Book Passage San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Lara Prior-Palmer: Rough Magic 05/17/2019 - 6:00pm Creative Nonfiction Reading/Talk At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to "the world's longest, toughest horse...