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1 MARCH 2017 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Activist, journalist, strategist, and observer L.A. Kauffman discusses her new book, Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism, a vibrant, groundbreaking history of American radicalism since the 1960s, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
  • Kendra Tanacea reads from and launches her new poetry collection, A Filament Burns in Blue Degrees, joined by poets Tracey Knapp, Mouth, and Peter Kline, Deviants, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, 7:30-9:00 (415/863-8688, www.booksmith.com)
    NORTH:
  • Steven Johnson, New York Times best-selling Science author, How We Got to Now, presents his book, Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, free, 7:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)

2 MARCH 2017 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Bill Hayes, nonfiction author, essayist, and photographer, presents his book, Insomniac City, Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, free, 6:00 (415/835-1020, www.bookpassage.com)
  • The Octopus Literary Salon presents "Silent Book Club," read in silence, wine, The Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster Street, Oakland, free, 7:00 (510/844-4120, oaklandoctopus.org/silent-book-club-7pm)
  • Copper Canyon Press Reading by poets Dean Rader, Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry, and Dana Levin, Banana Palace, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
  • The SFSU Poetry Center presents a poetry reading with Layli Long Soldier, WHEREAS, and Truong Tran, placing the accents, Humanities Building, Room 512, Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/338-2227, poetry.sfsu.edu)

3 MARCH 2017 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • Writer, photography, and editor Abeer Hoque, launches her new nonfiction book, Olive Witch: A Memoir, The Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster Street, Oakland, free, 2:00 (510/844-4120, oaklandoctopus.org)
  • Studio One Reading Series presents poet and freelance writer Steffi Drewes, Tell Me Every Anchor Every Arrow, poet Laura Walker, story, and poet-associate editor of TAYO Literary Magazine Janice Sapigao, microchips for millions, refreshments served, Studio One Art Center, 365 45th Street, Oakland, free, 7:30 (510/597-5027, studioonereadingseries.blogspot.com/2017/02/friday-march-3rd-730-pm-featuring.html)
    SOUTH:
  • Special cocktail hour reading and conversation with acclaimed poet and writer Kim Addonizio, reading from her new collection of poetry, Mortal Trash, San Jose State University, Steinbeck Center, SJSU Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, One Washington Square, San Jose, free, 4:00-5:00 (408/808-2067, library.sjsu.edu)
  • "An Evening of Poets & Film," a night of poetry performances and short films, with internationally acclaimed poet and writer Kim Addonizio, Mortal Trash, poems, and Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life, memoir, showing short films based on her poems, produced by Moving Poems, Yoshihiro Uchida Hall Auditorium, San Jose State University, One Washington Square, San Jose, 7:30-9:00 (408/808-2067, library.sjsu.edu)

4 MARCH 2017 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • "Poetry & Place I El Cerrito," a new reading series, features poet MK Chavez, Mothermorphosis, writer- teaching artist Judith Tannenbaum, Disguised as a Poem: My Teaching Poetry at San Quentin, hosted by El Cerrito Poet Laureate, Maw Shein Win, open mic follows, El Cerrito Library, 6510 Stockton Avenue, El Cerrito, free, 3:00-5:00 (510/526-7512, www.el-cerrito.org/poetryandplace)
  • Memorial reading and tribute to the late poet David Meltzer, readings by notable poets including his wife, Julie Rogers, Jack Hirschman, Agneta Falk, Alejandro Murguía, Neeli Cherkovski, and much more, The Beat Museum, 540 Broadway, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/399-9626, www.kerouac.com/beat_event/tribute-david-meltzer)
  • Nonfiction writer Amy Sutherland, What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage, presents her new book, Rescuing Penny Jane: One Shelter Volunteer, Countless Dogs, and the Quest to Find Them All Homes, Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, free, 1:00 (415/835-1020, www.bookpassage.com)
  • B Street Writers Collective, in collaboration with Synchronized Chaos, presents a reading by Julian Tirhma and Aquiela Lewis, with a first-come, first-served open mic, five-minute spots, dinner, pastry, tea available, Le Paradis and La Patrisserie, 22809 Mission Blvd., Hayward, parking in garage at B Street and Mission, open mic sign up 5:30, reading 6:00-8:00 (Please RSVP: bstreetwriterscollective@yahoo.com)
    NORTH:
  • Clair Brown, Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Society at UC Berkeley, presents her book about economics, Buddhist Economics, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, free, 4:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)

5 MARCH 2017 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Flash presents a reading for Susan Herron Sibbet's posthumously published poetry collection, Great Blue, with Terry Ehret, Steve Gilmartin, and the book's editors, Nina Lindsay, Carolyn Miller, and LeeAnn Pickrell, 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)
    NORTH:
  • Nonfiction author Robert Atkinson reads from and discusses his book, The Story of Our Time, a narrative of conscious evolution drawn from the wisdom of the world's religions, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, free, 7:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)
  • The Wide Net: a gathering of readers and writers of poetry with poet and editor Terry Lucas, ongoing for eight weeks, this is the fourth meeting, drop in, come with a poem, forty lines or less, by you or a favorite poet, and be prepared to read it aloud, all welcome, Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church, 410 Sycamore Avenue, Mill Valley, free, 1:00-3:00 (rsvp: lucas.t274@gmail.com, mtumc.org, www.terrylucas.com)

6 MARCH 2017 — monday

7 MARCH 2017 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Tuesdays at North Beach, a weekly poetry series celebrating international poets and showcasing local talent, presents a reading by Leticia Garcia Bradford and Jack Foley, curated by Jack Hirschman, North Beach Branch Library, 850 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 6:30 (415/522-8602, www.friendssfpl.org/events/tuesdays-at-north-beach.html)
  • B Street Writers Collective, in collaboration with Synchronized Chaos, presents a reading by Julian Tirhma and Aquiela Lewis, with a first-come, first-served open mic, five-minute spots, dinner, pastry, tea available, Le Paradis and La Patrisserie, 22809 Mission Blvd., Hayward, parking in garage at B Street and Mission, open mic sign up 5:30, reading 6:00-8:00 (Please RSVP: bstreetwriterscollective@yahoo.com)
  • Sara Gottfried, M.D. presents her latest book, Younger: A Breakthrough Program to Reset Your Genes, Reverse Aging, and Turn Back the Clock 10 Years, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com/events/sara-gottfried-md-0)
  • "Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories," first Tuesday of every month, hosted by Richard Leiter, Pegasus Books on Solano, 1855 Solano Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/525-6888, www.pegasusbookstore.com/jazz_march2017)
  • Pulitzer Prize-winner Megan Marshall presents her biography on the famed poet Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast, Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, free, 6:00 (415/835-1020, www.bookpassage.com)
  • USF MFA in Writing Reading Series presents a poetry reading by Solmaz Sharif, Look, finalist for the National Book Award, recipient of Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, Q&A and reception to follow, Fromm Hall, FR 125, Maraschi Room, University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, free, 7:45-9:00 (415/422-6066, www.usfca.edu/event/2017-03-07-1945/mfa-writing-reading-series-solmaz-sharif)
  • Novelist Yiyun Li celebrates the release of her first nonfiction book, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)

8 MARCH 2017 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • "Navigating Space for Women through Poetry, Literature and Art" a presentation by poet and travel writer Faith Adiele, poet Tonya M. Foster, and visual artist Asya Abdrahman, discussing the ways they "make place" and navigate the literary, artistic, and academic worlds, in celebration of International Women's Day, co-sponsored by the SFSU Poetry Center, in conjunction with the exhibition "Where is Here," curated by Jacqueline Francis and Kathy Zarur, Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission Street, San Francisco, $5-$10, 7:00 (415/338-2227, poetry.sfsu.edu)
  • Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here anthology reading by contributors from the coalition of poets, artists, writers, printers, booksellers, and readers started by Beau Beausoleil, this event marks the tenth anniversary of the bombing of booksellers in Iraq, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com/pages/Store-Events-.html)
  • Pulitzer Prize-winner Megan Marshall reads from her latest biography, Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com/events/megan-marshall)
  • Debut author Thi Bui launches and discusses her graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do, about a family's journey from war-torn Vietnam, with Ajuan Mance, Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/649-1320, www.pegasusbookstore.com/thi_bui)

9 MARCH 2017 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Shipwreck, a literary erotic fan fiction event where six great writers destroy six notable characters from one great book, continues with Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, with featured writers Sarah Manolis, Kamala Puligandla, Joe Wadlington, and more, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, $10 in advance, tickets online/$12 door, open bar, 7:00 (415/863-8688, www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2752995)
  • Jason Turbow, author of The Baseball Codes Beanballs, Sign Stealing, & Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime, presents his new book, Dynastic, Bombtastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley's Swingin' A's, Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, free, 6:00 (415/835-1020, www.bookpassage.com/event/jason-turbow-dynastic-bombtastic-fantastic-san-francisco)
    SOUTH:
  • Sacramento-based crime historian David Kulczyk discusses his new work, California's Deadliest Women: Dangerous Dames and Murderous Moms, the definitive guide to the murderesses of the Golden State, a horrifying compendium of women driven to kill, Books Inc., 301 Castro Street, Mountain View, 7:00 (650/428-1234, www.booksinc.net/MountainView)

10 MARCH 2017 — friday

11 MARCH 2017 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Writers with Drinks! presents fiction writer Shobha Rao, An Unrestored Woman, poet Paul Vangelisti, Border Music, movement historian and author L.A. Kauffman, Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism, and food writer Leena Trivedi-Grenier, proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture, The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco, $5-$20, doors open 6:30, show 7:30-9:30 (www.writerswithdrinks.com)
    NORTH:
  • Book launch reading for Jonah Raskin, No Walls Now and Gary Brandt, The Vault Apocalyptia, hosted by David Madgalene, SoCo Coffee, 1015 4th Street, Santa Rosa, free, 4:00-5:30 (707/328-3325, www.sococoffeesr.com)

12 MARCH 2017 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Pegasus Books presents an in-store book fair for Berkeley's Rosa Parks Elementary School, treats, story time, live, music and more, Teacher requested books available for purchase for classrooms, mention "Rosa Parks" and a portion of the purchase will go to school's PTA, Pegasus Books on Solano, 1855 Solano Avenue, Berkeley, free, 12:00-3:30 (510/525-6888, www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/rosa-parks-book-fair-2017)
  • Kendra Tanacea reads from and celebrates her new poetry collection, A Filament Burns In Blue Degrees, also featuring readings by fiction writer Peter Thomas Bullen, Wallflower, and poet Tracey Knapp, Mouth, Bazaar Café, 5927 California Street, San Francisco, between 21st Avenue and 22nd Avenue, 6:00 (415/831-5620, www.bazaarcafe.com)
    NORTH:
  • The Wide Net: a gathering of readers and writers of poetry with poet and editor Terry Lucas, ongoing for eight weeks, this is the fifth meeting, drop in, come with a poem, forty lines or less, by you or a favorite poet, and be prepared to read it aloud, all welcome, Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church, 410 Sycamore Avenue, Mill Valley, free, 1:00-3:00 (rsvp: lucas.t274@gmail.com, mtumc.org, www.terrylucas.com)
    SOUTH:
  • A reading by award-winning poet and essayist Camille Dungy, Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History, Trophic Cascade, Café Society, 522 Main Street, Half Moon Bay, free, 6:00 (650/713-0800, www.cafesocietyhalfmoonbay.com/events-1)

13 MARCH 2017 — monday

    SOUTH:
  • Poetry reading by Camille Dungy, Trophic Cascade, and 2016-2017 Poet Laureate of Sonoma County Iris Dunkle, There's a Ghost in this Machine of Air, Belmont Library, 1110 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont, free, 7:00 (650/591-8286, smcl.bibliocommons.com/events/search/index)

14 MARCH 2017 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry at the Albany Library features a reading by Camille Dungy, Trophic Cascade, open mic follows, hosted by Catherine Taylor, Albany Library, Edith Stone Room, 1247 Marin Avenue, Albany, free, 7:00-9:00 (510/526-3720, albanylibrary.wordpress.com)
  • Translator and nonfiction writer Damion Searls discusses his new book, The Inkblot: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing, the untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
  • Tuesdays at North Beach, a weekly poetry series celebrating international poets and showcasing local talent, presents a reading by Pireeni Sundaralingam and Francisco Herrera, curated by Jack Hirschman, North Beach Branch Library, 850 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 6:30 (415/522-8602, www.friendssfpl.org/events/tuesdays-at-north-beach.html)
    SOUTH:
  • Poetry Santa Cruz poetry reading by Travis Mossotti, Field Study, and David Sullivan, Take Wings, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, $3 donation, 7:30 (831/423-0900, www.bookshopsantacruz.com)
  • Poetry Center San José's Well-RED Reading Series presents Lisa Allen Ortiz and Susan Cohen, open mic follows, Works/San José, 365 South Market Street, San Jose, $2, doors open 6:30, reading 7:00 (www.pcsj.org)

15 MARCH 2017 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Lyrics and Dirges monthly reading series features emerging writers to highlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area, this event celebrates "Germination" with readings by Giavanna Ortiz de Candia, Cyrus Armajani, Shelley Wong, Elena Rose, G.S. Scott, hosted by Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman, every third Wednesday of the month, Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (www.pegasusbookstore.com)
  • Launch party and reading for Joan Frank's fourth novel, winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction, All The News I Need, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, 7:30 (415/863-8688, www.booksmith.com)
  • "Last Chance Slam! The last shot to qualify for a slot on the 2017 Berkeley Slam Team," presented by the Berkeley Poetry Slam every Wednesday, featuring a special guest poet, hosted by slam-master Jaz Sufi, music from Three Blind Mice Improv Jazz Band, cash prizes, The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, $7-$10, open sign up at 7:30, show 8:00, all ages before 10:00 (510/841-0188, www.thestarryplough.com; berkeleypoetryslam.wordpress.com)
  • Celebrate "Intelligence," the debut issue of Logic, a magazine devoted to technology and society, an exploration of how technology works and whom it works for, with founding editors Ben Tarnoff, Moira Weigel, Jim Fingal, Chrrista Hartsock, and contributors Tim Hwang, Miriam Posner, and Conrad Amenta, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)

16 MARCH 2017 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Reading and concert in celebration of the Shuffle Boil special issue of AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review, edited by Steve Dickinson, Director of The Poetry Center, SFSU, and the late poet David Meltzer, with featuring live music by David Boyce, Hafez Modirzadeh, Marshall R. Trammell, Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (Bird & Beckett: 415/586-3733, www.birdbeckett.com, poetry.sfsu.edu)
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Raphael Block, with guitar music by David Field, to celebrate Strings of Shining Silence: Earth-Love Poems, and Thanasis Maskaleris reads from My Life on the Ragged Paths of Pan: Selected Poems and Translations, request ASL interpreters one week in advance at editor@poetryflash.org, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
  • Harriet Scott Chessman reads from her new novel, The Lost Sketchbook of Edgar Degas, about a blind woman's new understanding of life and her cousin, Degas, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com/events/harriet-scott-chessman)
  • Elisabeth Jay Friedman reads from and discusses Interpreting the Internet: Feminist and Queer Counterpublics in Latin America, Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/649-1320, www.pegasusbookstore.com/elisabeth_jay_friedman)
  • Writer and taleteller Deepak Unnikrishnan reads from his new novel, Temporary People, winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
    NORTH:
  • Marin Poetry Center presents a poetry reading by Pushcart Prize and Cave Canem winner John Murillo, Up Jump the Boogie, and El Salvadoran-born Javier Jose Zamora, Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award-winner and Wallace Stegner Fellow, light refreshments, Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Street, San Rafael, $5 non-members/$3 members, students free, 7:30 (415/388-4033, events@marinpoetrycenter.org, marinpoetrycenter.org/events.php)
  • Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Improv Reading Series features Laura Pope, hosted by blake more, reading begins with live jazz by local musicians and an open mic with jazz, 215 Main Pub, 215 Main Street, Point Arena, free, 7:00 (707/884-9189, blake@snakelyone.com, www.facebook.com/215Main)
  • "A Leak in the Speakers! Teen Open Mic," organized by intern Sam Stilson, writers, singers, rappers, slammers, speakers, composers, musicians all welcome, free refreshments, Rebound Bookstore, 1611 4th Street, San Rafael, free, 7:00-9:00 (signing up in advance is helpful but drop-ins welcome, RSVP at reboundbookstore@aol.com, 415/482-0550, www.reboundbookstore.com)

17 MARCH 2017 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • "Fuzz3 Issue Release Party" with readings by poet, novelist, essayist, visual artist Will Alexander, Asia & Haiti, poet, Omnidawn managing editor, OmniVerse editor, Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel, poet Garrett Caples, Power Ballads, poet Ivan Argüelles, La Interrupcion conversacional, and poet Justin Robinson, with solo theremin performance by poet Andrew Joron, Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems, Green Apple Books, 506 Clement Street, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/387-2272, www.greenapplebooks.com/event/clement-fuzz-poetry-reading)

18 MARCH 2017 — saturday

    NORTH:
  • WordTemple Poetry Series reading by Gerald Fleming, One, and Carolyn Miller, Route 66 and Its Sorrows, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 South High Street, Sebastopol, free, 7:00 (www.wordtemple.com/blog/)

19 MARCH 2017 — sunday

    NORTH:
  • The Wide Net: a gathering of readers and writers of poetry with poet and editor Terry Lucas, ongoing for eight weeks, this is the sixth meeting, drop in, come with a poem, forty lines or less, by you or a favorite poet, and be prepared to read it aloud, all welcome, Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church, 410 Sycamore Avenue, Mill Valley, free, 1:00-3:00 (rsvp: lucas.t274@gmail.com, mtumc.org, www.terrylucas.com)

20 MARCH 2017 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Samuel Bercholz presents A Guided Tour of Hell: A Graphic Memoir, on his near-death experience, illustrated by renowned Tibetan artist Pema Namdol Thaye, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
  • Meredith Maran presents her book, The New Old Me, her personal exploration of what it means to be a woman of a certain age, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, 7:30 (415/863-8688, www.booksmith.com)

21 MARCH 2017 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Tuesdays at North Beach, a weekly poetry series celebrating international poets and showcasing local talent, presents a reading by Agneta Falk and Mauro Fortissimo, curated by Jack Hirschman, North Beach Branch Library, 850 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 6:30 (415/522-8602, www.friendssfpl.org/events/tuesdays-at-north-beach.html)
  • Berkeley Arts & Letters presents academic and social critic Camille Paglia in a reading and discussion of her new book, Free Woman, Free Man, a collection of her best essays on feminism, The Booksmith, Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley, $12, purchase tickets online, 7:30 (415/863-8688, www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2721977)

22 MARCH 2017 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Novelist Jami Attenberg presents her book, All Grown Up, in conversation with Alexis Coe, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, 7:30 (415/863-8688, www.booksmith.com)
  • Staff writer at The New Yorker Elif Batuman, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, celebrates the release of her new novel, The Idiot, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
  • Perfectly Queer Easy Bay and Nomadic Press presents "Queer Speculative Fiction" with award-winning writer, journalist and editor of Black Futurists Speak: An Anthology of New Black Writing, Kwan Booth, young adult author, short story fiction writer, poet, and musician Skye Allen, Pretty Peg, and writer Na'amen Tilahun, The Root: A Novel of the Wrath & Athenaeum, Nomadic Press Uptown, 2301 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, free, 7:00 (347/844-0481, www.nomadicpress.org)
  • The Holloway Series in Poetry presents a reading by Graham Foust, A Mouth in California, To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems, and more, open to the public, UC Berkeley, Hearst Field Annex D37, free, 6:30 (510/642-3467, hollowayreadingseries.wordpress.com/about-2)
  • "Semifinals #1, featuring 2016 Berkeley Slam Indie Champ, Brandon Melendez," presented by the weekly Berkeley Poetry Slam, every Wednesday, led by slam-master Jaz Sufi, hosted by Sam Sax, Time "Toaster" Henderson, Sevan, and Dre, cash prizes, The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, $7-$10, open sign up at 7:30, show 8:00, all ages before 10:00 (510/841-0188, www.thestarryplough.com; berkeleypoetryslam.wordpress.com)
  • Pegasus Books presents fiction writer Rob Pierce as he launches his new book, With the Right Enemies, with a reading from writer Joe Clifford, Lamentation, fiction writer Sean Craven, Future Lovecraft, fiction writer Tom Pitts, HUSTE, and poet Joel Landmind, Yeah, Well…, Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/649-1320, www.pegasusbookstore.com/rob_pierce)
    NORTH:
  • Red Hen Press Evening, featuring novelists Alan Lightman, Song of Two Worlds; Ellen Meeropol, On Hurricane Island, and Amy Hassinger, After the Dam, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 7:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)

23 MARCH 2017 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Ecology and radical history focused writer Ivy Anderson, and artist, activist, and historian Devon Angus, read from their co-edited non-fiction book, Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute, Green Apple Books, 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:30 (415/742-5833, http://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-alice-memoirs-barbary-coast-prostitute)
  • Elif Batuman discusses her latest novel, The Idiot, about a daughter of Turkish immigrants, sacrifice, and her experiences as a freshman at Harvard, with Yuyin Li, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
  • Radar Productions presents March Queer Reading Series with Bay Area poet, illustrator, and educator Trinidad Escobar, CRUSHED, nonfiction author and photographer Yuska Lufti Tuanakotta, Gentlemen Prefer Asians: Tales of Gay Indonesians and Green Card Marriages, artist, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and poet, founder, and Editor-in-Chief of Weird Sister Marisa Crawford, Reversible, hosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera, Q&A, cookies served, Latino/Hispanic Rooms (basement level), San Francisco Main Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 5:45-7:30 (415/557-4400, www.radarproductions.org)

24 MARCH 2017 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • Acción Latina presents Jorge Argueta, poet and winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award 2017, celebrating his latest children's book, Somos como las nubes/We are Like the Clouds, proceeds benefit "The Library of Dreams Project" in El Salvador, complimentary appetizers, light beverages, and music, Acción Latina, 2958 24th Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00-9:00 (415/648-1045, accionlatina.org/en/; please RSVP via Facebook or call 415/795-0024)
  • Emily K. Hobson discusses her non-fiction book, Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left, the history of gay and lesbian radicalism in the San Francisco Bay Area, Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/649-1320, www.pegasusbookstore.com/Emily_Hobson)
  • City Lights presents novelist Jim Shepard, The Book of Aron, reading to celebrate the release of his new collection of stories, The World to Come, introduced by Michael Ray, Managing Editor of Zoetrope Magazine, Zoetrope Cafe, 916 Kearny Street, San Francisco, free, 3:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)

25 MARCH 2017 — saturday

26 MARCH 2017 — sunday

    NORTH:
  • The Wide Net: a gathering of readers and writers of poetry with poet and editor Terry Lucas, ongoing for eight weeks, this is the seventh meeting, drop in, come with a poem, forty lines or less, by you or a favorite poet, and be prepared to read it aloud, all welcome, Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church, 410 Sycamore Avenue, Mill Valley, free, 1:00-3:00 (rsvp: lucas.t274@gmail.com, mtumc.org, www.terrylucas.com)

27 MARCH 2017 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Novelist Jim Shepard reads from his new collection of stories, The World to Come, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, 7:30 (415/863-8688, www.booksmith.com)

28 MARCH 2017 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • University of San Francisco Emerging Writers Festival presents a reading by Cortney Lamar Charleston, Telepathologies, selected by D.A. Powell for the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, and by fiction writer, Patricia Park, Re Jane, a novel inspired by Emily Brontë's Jane Eyre, reception follows, Fromm Hall, FR 125, Maraschi Room, University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, free, 7:45-9:00 (415/422-6066, www.usfca.edu/event/2017-03-28-1945/emerging-writers-festival)
  • Pegasus Books presents "Happy Hour Stories: Solano's Story Time For Adults," every last Tuesday of the month, featuring a short story reading on a theme by Pegasus staff, friends, and special guests, refreshments, Pegasus Books on Solano, 1855 Solano Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/525-6888, www.pegasusbookstore.com/happyhour_march2017)
  • Tuesdays at North Beach, a weekly poetry series celebrating international poets and showcasing local talent, presents a reading by Genny Lim and Charles Curtis Blackwell, curated by Jack Hirschman, North Beach Branch Library, 850 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 6:30 (415/522-8602, www.friendssfpl.org/events/tuesdays-at-north-beach.html)
  • Jon Raymond discusses his new novel, Free Bird, about an all-American family and their moral crisis around death and politics in America today, with Zoetrope's Michael Ray, Green Apple Books, 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:30 (415/742-5833, http://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-jon-raymond)

29 MARCH 2017 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • University of San Francisco Emerging Writers Festival presents a reading by short story fiction writer Vanessa Hua, Deceit and Other Possibilities winner of the Asian/Pacific Award for Literature, poet Sam Sax, Madness, winner of The National Poetry Series, and nonfiction writer Mike Scalise, The Brand New Catastrophe, reception follows, Fromm Hall, FR 120, Xavier Auditorium, University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, free, 7:30-9:30 (415/422-6066, www.usfca.edu/event/2017-03-29-1930/emerging-writers-festival)
  • University of San Francisco Emerging Writers Festival presents "The Writing Life Panel" with Cortney Lamar Charleston, Patricia Park, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Sam Sax, and Mike Scalise, a discussion of their experiences in the writing industry, with Q&A, McLaren Complex, MC 250, University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, free, 4:30-6:00 (415/422-6066, www.usfca.edu/event/2017-03-29-1630/emerging-writers-festival-the-writing-life-panel)
  • "Semifinals #2, featuring 2016 Berkeley Slam Women's Champ, Sarah Minaj," presented by the weekly Berkeley Poetry Slam, every Wednesday, led by slam-master Jaz Sufi, hosted by Sam Sax, Time "Toaster" Henderson, Sevan, and Dre, cash prizes, The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, $7-$10, open sign up at 7:30, show 8:00, all ages before 10:00 (510/841-0188, www.thestarryplough.com; berkeleypoetryslam.wordpress.com)
  • Independent scholar Tim Stroshane reads from and discusses his new book, Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California's Central Valley Project, an account of how water rights were designed as a key part of the state's largest public water system, the Central Valley Project, Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/649-1320, www.pegasusbookstore.com/tim_stroshane)
    NORTH:
  • "Hand to Mouth/WORDS Spoken Out #85, Second Sci-fi Writers' Nite" with Loren Rhoads, The Dangerous Type, and S.G. Browne, Less Than Hero, light refreshments, open mic follows, participating neighborhood restaurants have discounts available at the reading, Rebound Bookstore, 1611 4th Street, San Rafael, free, 7:00-9:00 (415/482-0550, www.reboundbookstore.com)

30 MARCH 2017 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Hannah Lillith Assadi reads from and discusses her debut novel, Sonora, about the daughter of a Palestinian refugee and his Israeli wife, with Shawn Wen, Green Apple Books, 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:30 (415/742-5833, http://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-hannah-lillith-assadi)
  • Fiction writer Lauren Grodstein reads from and discusses her book, Our Short History, about a successful New York political consultant and single mother who wrestles with her terminal illness and her ex's new presence in their son's life, Green Apple Books, 506 Clement Street, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/387-2272, http://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/clement-lauren-grodstein)
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Katherine Hastings, Shakespeare & Stein Walk Into a Bar, and a poetry performance by G.P. Skratz, Sundae Missile: the Mass of the Church of the Center that will not Hold, request ASL interpreters one week in advance at editor@poetryflash.org, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
  • The SFSU Poetry Center presents a poetry reading by Margaret Randall, Only the Road/Solo el Camino: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry, Humanities Building, Room 512, Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00-9:00 (415/338-2227, poetry.sfsu.edu)
  • Subterranean SF Reading Series celebrates the release of Bradley Spinelli's book, The Painted Gun, a washed-up ex-journalist looking for a missing girl in San Francisco is framed by a Guatemalan hit man for a series of murders, this event takes place at an undisclosed location, invitations will be available at City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, beginning March 20, no reservations accepted, free on a first come, first serve basis, 7:00 (415/362-8193x24, www.citylights.com)
  • Ursula Werner reads from her debut novel, The Good at Heart, based on her great grandfather's reluctant participation in Hitler's cabinet, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com/events/ursula-werner)

31 MARCH 2017 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • California College of the Arts presents a poetry reading with Margaret Randall, Only the Road/Solo el Camino: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry, reception follows, Writers Studio, San Francisco Campus, California College of the Arts, 195 De Haro Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 (415/551-9237, nwasher@cca.edu, www.cca.edu/calendar/2017/reading-margaret-randall)

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