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24 AUGUST 2021 — tuesday

• City Lights Books presents activist and writer Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, discussing her new book, Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion, examining the pervasive myth that America was founded by and for immigrants, and this harmful ideology used to disguise the country's history of slavery, genocide, and white supremacy, in conversation with poet and fiction writer Alejandro Murguía, Southern Front, This War Called Love, free, online via Zoom, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=books_events)
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• Cobalt Poets presents a poetry reading featuring Kendall Hoeft, open mic to follow, free, online via Zoom, 7:30 pm PDT (Zoom link here: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
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• Join Poetic License Sonoma every fourth Tuesday for an evening of poetry readings, featuring the eight poets that make up Poetic License Sonoma: Susanne Arrhenius, Joseph Cutler, Paul DeMarco, Kusum Jain, Leo McCloskey, Steve Trenam, Judith Vaughn, and Jaime Zukowski, with special guest poet Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, The Little House on Stilts Remembers, The Faust Woman Poems, sponsored by Sebastopol Center for the Arts, $5, donations welcome, 7:00-8:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.sebarts.org/classes-lectures/poetic-license-sonoma-magic)
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• Skylight Books, Marin County Office of Equity, and Dominican University of California present Dr. john a. powell, Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute and author of Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Concepts of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society, part of the Community at Table Speaker Series, a series about anti-racism and social justice, free, online, 5:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.bookpassage.com/event/community-table-speaker-series-dr-john-powell-online-event)
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25 AUGUST 2021 — wednesday

• City Lights Books presents poet Iván Argüelles, "That" Goddess, Happax Legomenon, and poet and playwright Solomon Rino, Deity Men, Reb gong Tibetan Trance Mediums in Transition, discussing their new book of poetry, Field Hollars, a collaboration interweaving two voices from opposite sides of the Bay, free, online, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=books_events)
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• Red Hen Press presents The Hen House at Home: The Cli-Fi Special, featuring two writers of environmental fiction, Thea Prieto, From the Caves, winner of the 2019 Red Hen Press Novella Award, and Cai Emmons, Weather Woman and its standalone sequel, Sinking Islands, free, online on YouTube and Facebook, 4:00 pm PDT (For more information: redhen.org/virtual)
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• Green Apple Books presents novelist Marc Anthony Richardson, Year of the Rat, American Book Award-winner, reading from and discussing his new novel, Messiahs, in conversation with novelist and translator Carolina de Robertis, Cantoras, The Gods of Tango, Green Apple Books, 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, free, 6:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-marc-anthony-richardson-and-carolina-de-robertis)
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26 AUGUST 2021 — thursday

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27 AUGUST 2021 — friday

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28 AUGUST 2021 — saturday

• Join poet Stella Beratlis, Dust Bowl Venus, Alkali Sink, for the free, one-time workshop "Writing Your Poetry Manifesto: The Ars Poetica Poem"; attendees will learn about ars poetica poems that explore the act of writing and the poet's relationship with the poem, and write through a few prompts in a relaxed environment, open to all writing levels, free, online via Zoom, 1:00 pm PDT (Zoom link here: www.mostpoetry.org/event/writing-your-poetry-manifesto-the-ars-poetica-poem)
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• Poets Anastasia Vassos, Nike Adjusting Her Sandal, and Eileen Cleary, 2 a.m. with Keats, read from and discuss their work, part of the Poets in Conversation series, hosted by Phyllis Klein, free, online via Zoom, 4:00 pm PDT (RSVP to poetry@phyllispoetry.com for the Zoom link)
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29 AUGUST 2021 — sunday

• Sixteen Rivers Press presents a poetry reading featuring poets Dane Cervine, Earth Is a Fickle Dancer, The Gateless Gate: Polishing the Moon Sword, and Stella Beratlis, Dust Bowl Venus, Alkali Sink, free, Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley, 3:00 pm PDT (For more information: sixteenrivers.org/spring-readings-for-2021-authors)
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30 AUGUST 2021 — monday

• Bookshop Santa Cruz presents journalist Kat Chow, founding member of NPR's Code Switch, reading from and discussing her new book, Seeing Ghosts, a deeply moving memoir about grief and family in the wake of her mother's death, online, free, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.bookshopsantacruz.com/kat-chow)
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• Vroman's Bookstore presents Local Authors Day, featuring three local authors discussing their new work: David W. Reed, Uphill and Into the Wind, a memoir about Reed's odyssey across the United States by bicycle, during the political turmoil of the 1970s; Lin Nelson Benedek with her latest poetry collection, Singing Lessons; and Louise Wannier, Tree Spirits, an interactive picture book illustrated by April Tatiana Jackson; free, online, 6:00 pm PDT (RSVP to attend: www.vromansbookstore.com/event/vroman%E2%80%99s-live-presents-local-author-day-featuring-david-w-reed-lin-nelson-benedek-and-louise)
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31 AUGUST 2021 — tuesday

• Cobalt Poets presents a poetry reading featuring award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, Immigrants in Our Own Land and Healing Earthquake, open mic to follow, free, online via Zoom, 7:30 pm PDT (Zoom link here: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
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