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Poetry Flash presents a book launch for The Collected Poetry and Prose of Lawrence Fixel

Thursday February 27, 2020 7:30 PM

A book launch celebration for The Collected Poetry and Prose of Lawrence Fixel, by San Francisco poet Lawrence Fixel, who passed in 2003 at the...

Joseph Lease and Hank Lazer

Tuesday March 3, 2020 7:00 PM

Joseph Lease's critically acclaimed books of poetry include The Body Ghost (Coffee House Press, 2018), Testify (Coffee House Press, 2011), and Broken World (Coffee House Press, 2007). Lease’s...

Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome

Tuesday March 10, 2020 7:00 PM

Author Susan Levenstein talks about Dotteressa: An American Doctor in Rome.

Susan Levenstein has been practicing primary care internal medicine in Italy for four decades, treating...

SPD Presents: Tessa Micaela, Julia Bloch, and Jacq Greyja

Wednesday March 11, 2020 7:00 PM

Please join us for another fabulous SPD Presents with our friends at Moe's Books! SPD is proud to bring you the talents of Tessa Micaela...

Eugene Ostashevsky and Brandon Brown

Monday March 16, 2020 7:00 PM

Eugene Ostashevsky is a Russian-American poet and translator based in Berlin and New York. He is the author of three full-length poetry collections in English...

Poetry Flash presents Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Matthew Siegel, and Richard Silberg

Wednesday March 18, 2020 7:30 PM

Maria Mazziotti Gillan’s latest book of poems is What Blooms in Winter. Marge Piercy has said, “Gillan contains some of the most honest poems about marriage and...

Nancy Au, Alexandra Mattraw, Tiff Dresson, Tomas Moniz

Thursday March 19, 2020 7:00 PM

NANCY AU’s essays and stories appear in many journals including Redivider, Gulf Coast, Foglifter, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She teaches creative writing (to biology majors!)...

Omnidawn Spring Publication Party

Friday March 27, 2020 7:00 PM

Our Omnidawn book parties are legendary! Join us to get a first look at their latest titles. Hear great readings and meet the poets:

Desirée Alvarez...

Aaron Shurin

Monday March 30, 2020 7:00 PM

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...

Fanny Singer, author of Always Home

Thursday April 2, 2020 7:00 PM

East Bay bookstore launch for Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories

FANNY SINGER is a writer, editor, and co-founder of the design brand, Permanent Collection...

D. A. Powell and Paola Capó-García

Monday April 6, 2020 7:00 PM

Paola Capó-García is the author of CLAP FOR ME THAT’S NOT ME (Rescue Press, 2018), selected by D.A. Powell as the winner of Rescue Press'...

Berkeley Noir

Tuesday May 5, 2020 7:00 PM

Editors (and Moe's workers) Jerry Thompson and Owen Hill introduce the contributors to Akashic's latest city noir anthology. Celebrate Berkeley on Telegraph Avenue!

Berkeley brings its...

Aya De León: Side Chick Nation

Friday May 15, 2020 7:00 PM

Aya De León is a writer, activist, educator, spoken word poet and author of the award-winning Justice Hustlers series. The Director of June Jordan’s Poetry...

Mark Terrill with Jon Langford

Saturday May 16, 2020 7:00 PM

Mark Terrill’s new book of poems, launching tonight, is Great Balls of Doubt, a collection of poems and prose poems with illustrations by Jon Langford...