Thursday, December 3

12:10-12:50pm
Lunch Poems at UC Berkeley
featuring Richard O. Moore
at Morrison Library (101 Doe Library)
UC Berkeley Campus
free and open to the public

3:30pm
The Poetry Center presents:
Black Nature
Camille Dungy, editor
with anthology contributors C. S. Giscombe, devorah major, Indigo Moor & Patricia Spears Jones
at The Poetry Center
HUM 512
San Francisco State University
San Francisco
free

7:30pm
The Poetry Center presents:
Black Nature
Camille Dungy, editor
with anthology contributors C. S. Giscombe, devorah major, Indigo Moor & Patricia Spears Jones
at the Green Arcade
1680 Market (at Gough)
free

7:30pm
Studio One Reading Series presents:
Jane Gregory & Graham Foust
with music from Mouse Heaven
at Studio One Art Center
365 45th Street
Oakland
donation for entry


Friday, December 4

7:30pm
Small Press Traffic presents:
Carla Harryman & Alan Bernheimer with a reading focused on Performance
at California College of the Arts
Timken Lecture Hall
1111 8th Street
San Francisco
$8-15 sliding scale / students and members free


Saturday, December 5

11am-5pm
PASSIVE/AGGRESSIVE
Southern Exposure’s 2nd Public Art and Urban Intervention Day
location: sites throughout the Mission District
San Francisco
details at Southern Exposure
free

1-4pm
Small Press Traffic presents:
Dialogues workshop with Carla Harryman: Language and listening in performance
at California College of the Arts
Timken Lecture Hall
1111 8th Street
San Francisco
$15 members and students / $25 general public

7:00pm doors; 7:30pm reading
Babylon Salon presents:
Josh Bazell, Ellen Sussman, Sonja Velez, Zach Wyner, Carol Edgarian & Katayoon Zandvakili
at Cantina SF (in the basement)
580 Sutter Street
San Francisco

7pm
Bernal Yoga Literary Series presents:
with Maria Hummel (fiction) and Bryan Tso-Jones (poetry)
along with readings by five other local authors
at Bernal Yoga Studio
461 Cortland Avenue
Bernal Heights
San Francisco
$5 donation

7:30pm
Babylon Salon presents:
Josh Bazell, Ellen Sussman, Sonja Velez & Zach Wyner
with featured literary journal Narrative Magazine
at Cantina SF
580 Sutter Street
San Francisco

9pm-6am
Post Brothers present:
Exercises in Seeing
a one night only exhibition held entirely in the dark
at Queen’s Nails Projects
3191 Mission Street
San Francisco
free


Sunday December 6

1-4pm (readings at 2pm)
Small Press Distribution’s Fall Open House
Celebrating New Lit Generation with their Poetry Trading Post: trade a poem or story, get a free book. 20-50% off all books.
with readings by Alan Bernheimer, Andrew Joron, Nicole Mauro, Lindsey Boldt, Annie Yu & Robin Black
at Small Press Distribution
1341 Seventh Street
Berkeley

2pm
PAWA (Philippine American Writers and Artists) & Achiote Press Present:
Community & Academic Writing Programs: A Panel for Emerging Writers
with panelists Rashaan Alexis Meneses, Claire Light, Vickie Vertiz, Craig Santos Perez, Oscar Bermeo & Vanessa Huang
at San Francisco Public Library
Latino Room B (lower level)
100 Larkin (at Grove)
free


Tuesday, December 8

7pm
Poetry at the Albany Library
with Emily Warn, followed by an Open Mic
at the Albany Library
1247 Marin Avenue
Albany

7:30pm
Geoff Bouvier & Janet Holmes
at Books & Bookshelves
99 Sanchez Street
San Francisco


Friday, December 11

7:15pm
A Poetry Flash Special Holiday Event
with John Balaban & Chana Bloch
at Berkeley Art Center
1275 Walnut Street (near Eunice)
in Live Oak Park
Berkeley

7:30pm
Small Press Traffic presents:
Fred Moten & Steve Dickison on Performance
at California College of the Arts
1111 8th Street
San Francisco


Saturday, December 12

7:30pm
George Oppen Memorial Lecture
Rosmarie Waldrop
at Unitarian Center
1187 Franklin (at Geary)
San Francisco
$10


Monday, January 11

8:00pm
The JCCSF presents:
Andrei Codrescu
Impractical Lessons for Practical Living
3200 California Street
San Francisco
$18


Saturday, January 16

8pm
Canessa Gallery Reading Series presents:
Cassandra Smith, Noah Eli Gordon & Eric Baus on “tbd”
Canessa Gallery
708 Montgomery Street
San Francisco
$5 at door


Wednesday, January 27

6:00-7:30pm
A Free Poetry Writing Workshop with Sally Love Saunders
Everyone welcome (youth age 10+ welcome when accompanied by adult)
at Richmond Library
351 9th Avenue (at Clement)
San Francisco


Thursday, February 4

12:10-12:50pm
Lunch Poems at UC Berkeley
featuring Dan Bellm
at Morrison Library (101 Doe Library)
UC Berkeley Campus
free and open to the public


Tuesday, February 9

5:30-7:00pm
Mills College Writers Series presents:
Kyle Schlesinger
Mills Hall Living Room
Mill College
5000 MacArthur Boulevard
Oakland


Monday, February 22

8:00pm
The JCCSF presents:
Kay Ryan
Impractical Lessons for Practical Living
3200 California Street
San Francisco
$18


Tuesday, February 23

5:30-7:00pm
Mills College Writers Series presents:
Lasana M. Sekou
Mills Hall Living Room
Mill College
5000 MacArthur Boulevard
Oakland


Wednesday, February 24

3pm
Center for Literary Arts presents:
Marilyn Chin
at Mt. Pleasant High School


Thursday, February 25

3pm
Center for Literary Arts presents:
Marilyn Chin in conversation with Sam Maio
Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Room 225-229
San Jose State University
San Jose

6pm
Gillian Conoley
in the Schulz Information Center, Room 3001
at Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Avenue
Rohner Park


7pm
Marilyn Chin
reading and book signing
Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Room 225-229
San Jose State University
San Jose


Thursday, March 4

12:10-12:50pm
Lunch Poems at UC Berkeley
featuring Natasha Trethewey
at Morrison Library (101 Doe Library)
UC Berkeley Campus
free and open to the public


Saturday, March 6

Babylon Salon presents:
Michelle Tea and others
information to be announced


Wednesday, March 17

7pm
Gillian Conoley
at University of California at Berkeley

Tuesday, March 30

5:30-7:00pm
Mills College Writers Series presents:
The Chana Bloch Reading of Writers in Translation
Ammiel Alcalay
Mills Hall Living Room
Mill College
5000 MacArthur Boulevard
Oakland


Thursday, April 1

12:10-12:50pm
Lunch Poems at UC Berkeley
featuring Lisa Chen
at Morrison Library (101 Doe Library)
UC Berkeley Campus
free and open to the public


Tuesday, April 13

3pm
Center for Literary Arts presents:
Truong Tran
Mt. Pleasant High School

7pm
Center for Literary Arts presents:
Truong Tran
reading and book signing
Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Room 225-229
San Jose State University
San Jose


Thursday, May 6

12:10-12:50pm
Lunch Poems at UC Berkeley
featuring students reading
at Morrison Library (101 Doe Library)
UC Berkeley Campus
free and open to the public