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1 APRIL 2015 — wednesday

2 APRIL 2015 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Anita Barrows and Lenore Weiss, request ASL interpreters one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
  • Lunch Poems presents poet Jane Hirshfield reading from her new book, The Beauty, Morrison Library in the Doe Library, University of California campus, Berkeley, 12:10-12:50 (lunchpoems.berkeley.edu)

3 APRIL 2015 — friday

4 APRIL 2015 — saturday

5 APRIL 2015 — sunday

6 APRIL 2015 — monday

7 APRIL 2015 — tuesday

8 APRIL 2015 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • The Holloway Poetry Series presents poet and essayist Fanny Howe, joined by David Vandeloo, Maude Fife Room, Third Floor, Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley, 6:30 (hollowayreadingseries.wordpress.com)
  • City Lights presents a launch party for David Meltzer's Two Way Mirror: A Poetry Notebook, reissued after forty years with a new addendum to this one-of-a-kind poetry guidebook for a new realm, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, at Broadway, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)

9 APRIL 2015 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Story Hour in the Library presents fiction writer Joyce Carol Oates, book sales and signing follow, Morrison Library, Doe Library, University of California, Berkeley, 5:00-6:00 (storyhour.berkeley.edu)
  • The SFSU Poetry Center presents poets Arisa White A Penny Saved and Raina de Léon, The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, 4:30 (sfsu.edu/~poetry)

10 APRIL 2015 — friday

11 APRIL 2015 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Alta Solano Lit Out Loud monthly series presents a reading by award-winning poet Ellen Bass, Like a Beggar, and Alison Luterman, Desire Zoo, hosted by Jannie Dresser, Folk & Fine Art Gallery, 1861-A Solano Avenue, Berkeley, $5-$10 sliding scale, 7:30-9:00 (janniedres@att.net, www.folkandfineart.com)

12 APRIL 2015 — sunday

13 APRIL 2015 — monday

14 APRIL 2015 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Joanne Kyger reads from her new poetry book, On Time, with Bill Berkson, who will read from his new collection, Expect Delays, San Francisco Public Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:30 (415/557-4400, sfpl.org)

15 APRIL 2015 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Ryan Gattis reads from his new novel The Wire, City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)

16 APRIL 2015 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Jeanne Foster and Paul Breslin, request ASL interpreters one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
    NORTH:
  • Marin Poetry Center presents a reading by Chana Bloch, poet, translator, scholar and teacher, and Maria Hummel, winner of the 2013 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission, San Rafael, 7:30 (www.marinpoetrycenter.org)

17 APRIL 2015 — friday

18 APRIL 2015 — saturday

19 APRIL 2015 — sunday

20 APRIL 2015 — monday

21 APRIL 2015 — tuesday

22 APRIL 2015 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Canessa Park Reading Series presents French poet Frank Andre Jamme and translator Norma Cole reading from his new book To The Secret, along with John Sakkis reading from his new book, The Islands, Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street, at Columbus, San Francisco, $6-$10 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds, doors open 7:00, reading 7:30 (aedburns@yahoo.com)

23 APRIL 2015 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Lola Haskins and Lynne Knight, request ASL interpreters one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
  • Viet Thanh Nguyen reads from his first novel, The Sympathizer, City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
  • Maged Zaher, poet, editor, and translator, reads from The Tahrir of Poems: Seven Contemporary Egyptian Poets, the Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, 4:30 (sfsu.edu/~poetry)

24 APRIL 2015 — friday

25 APRIL 2015 — saturday

26 APRIL 2015 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Flash presents a reading by John Shoptaw and Daniel Wolff, request ASL interpreters one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org, wheelchair accessible, Diesel, A Bookstore, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, 3:00 (510/653-9965, dieselbookstore.com)

27 APRIL 2015 — monday

28 APRIL 2015 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poet and award-winning actress Amber Tamblyn discusses her new book of non-fiction, Dark Sparkler, on the lives of more than twenty-five actresses lost before their time, from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy, City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)

29 APRIL 2015 — wednesday

30 APRIL 2015 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Robert Scheer discusses his new book, They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy, in conversation with Electronic Frontier Foundation Staff Attorney Mark Rumold, City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)

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