Unity and Struggle: San Francisco’s 8th Poet Laureate Wednesday April 21, 6pm to 7:30pm Pacific time Please join Tongo Eisen-Martin, San Francisco’s 8th Poet Laureate, and family for an evening of poetry and exposition on the revolutionary potentials of art; as beautifully no incarnation of craft exists outside of the movements, renaissances; the people ...

Green Apple Books Talk w/ Authors Jakob Guanzon and Lysley Tenorio Join us on Wednesday, April 21 at 6pm PT when Jakob Guanzon discusses his debut novel, Abundance, with Lysley Tenorio on Zoom! Zoom Login Info Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84964860993 Praise for Abundance “Jakob Guanzon’s excellent debut novel, Abundance, is the story of a father ...

Perfectly Queer Reading “Queering National Poetry Month” Queer up National Poetry Month with us Wednesday, April 21 from 7pm to 8pm Pacific via Zoom. Poets Chen Chen, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, and Ben Kline present poems from their new and recent collections and discuss how writing during the pandemic has been for them. Get ...

Launch Event for American Geography in Honor of Barry Lopez Radius Books and The Green Arcade invite you to join Sandra S. Phillips, Debra Gwartney, Toby Jurovics, and Beverly Dahlen to celebrate the launch of AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY: PHOTOGRAPHS OF LAND USE FROM 1840 TO THE PRESENT, including live readings of recent work from Robert Adams ...

Reclaiming Connection and Community Thur, April 22, 7-8:30pm Pacific time The American Dream as it has been defined for more than a century is about the well-paying job, the nuclear family, and upward mobility. But what both clouds and defines that dream is the distance between us, our neighbors, and ...

“Foglifter” Spring 2021 LGBTQ+ Author Event Celebration Foglifter—created by and for LGBTQ+ writers and readers—continues the San Francisco Bay Area’s tradition of groundbreaking queer and trans writing, with an emphasis on publishing those multi-marginalized (BIPOC, youth, elders, and people with disabilities). Our biannual journal features the widest possible range of forms, with ...

Aviva Chomsky & Mickey Huff: Central America’s Forgotten History Thursday, April 29, 6-7pm Pacific time KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents AVIVA CHOMSKY & MICKEY HUFF: A Zoom Event Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration Aviva Chomsky restores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ ...

The Mountains Sing Book Talk w/ Author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai and Thi Bui The Mountains Sing is acclaimed Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s first novel in English. Celebrating the paperback release of this novel, Quế Mai will discuss her book in conversation with Thi Bui, 2018 Caldecott Honor winner and Eisner Award finalist for her illustrated memoir, The Best We ...

“Bay Area Book Festival” Virtual Book Talk: Kazuo Ishiguro and Yaa Gyasi Join us on Sunday, May 2nd at 1pm PT for an afternoon with Kazuo Ishiguro and Yaa Gyasi in celebration of Ishiguro’s new novel, Klara and the Sun. In partnerhsip with Bay Area Book Festival PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT For questions regarding tickets, please contact ...