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OBA Finalists Reading Young Adult Literature
Zoom CA, United StatesJoin us for a reading featuring the 2023 Oregon Book Award finalists for the Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature. This is a virtual event.
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No Poetry No Peace: a reading and celebration of human expression and peace
Zoom CA, United Stateshosted by Sheryl Bize-Boutte Join us and a selection of poets – some local, some far flung - to explore how "poetry provides pathways for creative and cathartic human expression and peace." The No Poetry No Peace series happens twice a year and the title comes from a collection written by Sheryl Bize-Boutte and her daughter Dr. […]
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Dominican MFA Reading
Sausalito Books by the Bay 100 Bay Street, Sausalito, CA, United StatesThe event is a partnership between Dominican University of California’s MFA in Creative Writing Program and Sausalito Books by the Bay. The event features current students, alumni, and faculty of the program. Presenters will read from samples of their poetry and prose writing in the cozy setting of a small bayside bookstore. This is a […]
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German Writer Thomas Brussig with Jonathan Franzen
Mechanics' InstituteThomas Brussig’s classic German novel, The Short End of the Sonnenallee, now appearing for the first time in English, is a moving and miraculously comic story of life in East Berlin before the fall of the Wall. Translator and author Jonathan Franzen, who also provides the foreword for this book, says that it’s “a reminder that, even […]
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Snap, Clap, and Feel the Poetry
Zoom CA, United StatesOpen Mic and Featured Reading by Connie Post in Celebration of National Poetry Month In honor of National Poetry Month WNBA-SF will host a national poetry event. Our celebration will include one featured reader & an open mic so brush up those great poems! We’ll see you in April! Featured poet will be Connie Post, Poet Laureate Emeritus […]
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BIPOC Reading Series-April
Zoom CA, United StatesThis bimonthly reading series is intended to prioritize the safety, creativity, and stories of Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color. Come listen to our featured readers, or sign up to share your work in our open mic. Readings will be followed by a short community discussion. The theme for April is “Transformation.” Our […]
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Spring Author Showcase @ Orinda Books
Orinda Books 276 Village Square, Orinda, CA, United Stateshis will be both an in-person and Zoom event. (Zoom invite information to come). And here’s our outstanding list of 12 authors who will be reading from their latest books: Cara Black George Cramer Janet Dawson Vinnie Hansen Heather Haven Katherine Hyde Leslie Karst Claudia Long Thena MacArthur Nannette Potter Cindy Sample Susan Shea
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Celebrate National Poetry Month!
Mechanics' InstituteTwo nationally known award-winning poets read from their new works and talk about their influences and passions. Henri Coles explores the formality and density of the sonnet with its glorious layers of emotion with a contemporary twist in his new collection Gravity and Center: Selected Sonnets, 1994-2022. Brenda Hillman’s bold, experimental eco-poems in her recent work A Few […]
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Queer Bedtime Stories
Milk-SF 302 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesQueer Bedtime Stories is an opportunity to re-seed the fertile ground of your imagination with poetry, memoirs, and history from our people: LGBTQ+ ancestors and creators alive today. Together, let’s uncover the richness of our shared history and catch a glimpse of the blossoming future. You can come just to listen or bring a reading […]
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Grace Notes
Grace Cathedral 1100 California Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesJoin Litquake for our annual celebration of National Poetry Month. We’ll gather under the stunning stained glass of San Francisco's historic Grace Cathedral while five celebrated poets read from their latest collections. Featuring words from James Cagney, Henri Cole, Jewelle Gomez, Jacques Rancourt, and Rachel Zucker. Book sales and signing to follow. Curated and hosted […]
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Survive & Thrive: A Literary Reading & Conversation with Devi S. Laskar & Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Oakland Public Library 125 14th Street, Oakland, CA, United StatesWhat is redemption? How do you get it? How is it different from revenge? Multi-award winning authors Lucy Jane Bledsoe and Devi S. Laskar will read from their new novels and discuss how they write with an eye toward redemption that is true and honest. Lucy Jane Bledsoe’s newest, Tell The Rest, features two queer characters who […]
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Alta Live: Author Jane Smiley
Zoom CA, United StatesJane Smiley fans, get excited! The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s forthcoming book, The Questions that Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom, explores a number of provocations around class, race, and gender in the Western literary imagination and—most importantly—reflects on how the autonomy of a reader’s interpretation of any work of literature makes reading an inherently […]