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27 FEBRUARY 2022 — sunday

  • City Lights Books and PM Press present a weekend-long symposium celebrating the launch of Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985, published by PM Press, featuring numerous talks with authors in the science fiction genre, including "The Forever War: Vietnam's Impact on Sci-Fi," with Terry Bisson and Marge Piercy, a conversation with novelist Samuel R. Delaney, Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection, "Ten Thousand Light Years From Home: Reflecting on the Work and Impact of James Tiptree Jr.," with Karen Joy Fowler and Jonathan Lethem, "False Dawns and Wandergrounds: Dystopia, Then and Now," with Matt Bell, Cory Doctorow, Vandana Singh, and Ann VanderMeer, online, free, 11:00 am PST (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)
  • The Village Poets of Sunland Tujunga present a reading with poet Dean Blehert, Kill the Children and Other Disconnections, Please, Lord, Make Me a Famous Poet or at Least Less Fat, with open mic before and after the reading, online via Zoom, free, 4:30 pm PST (Email: DMHSkiles@gmail.com for the Zoom link; more information here: villagepoets.blogspot.com/2022/02/dean-blehert-features-for-village-poets.html)
  • Book launch celebration: Ruth Crossman reads from her new chapbook, All the Wrong Places, "flash memoir meets graphic novel," with an all-star lineup of local readers, presented by Naked Bulb Press, in-person, Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, 6:00 pm-8:00 pm PST (415/824-1761, medicinefornightmares.com)
  • The Green Arcade presents a memorial reading in honor of poet Lew Ellingham, Poet Be Like God, readers to be announced, come join for readings and reminiscences, in-person, The Green Arcade, 1680 Market Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 pm PST (More information here: thegreenarcade.com)
  • San Francisco Public Library presents Shayda Kafai, Crip Kinship, in conversation with Zena Sharman, The Care We Dream Of, to discuss how disability justice is foundational to combating legacies of cis-heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, classism, and capitalism in LGBTQ+ health and crip cultural productions, Zoom, free, 2:00-3:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: sfpl.org/events)
  • The Claremont Library's Fourth Sundays Reading Series features poets Chloe Martinez, Ten Thousand Selves, and Toti O'Brien, An Alphabet of Birds, free, in-person, Claremont United Church of Christ, 233 Harrison Avenue, Claremont, 2:00 pm PST (More information here: www.facebook.com/fourthsundayspoetry)
  • Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center presents "A Night of Love," a reading honoring the life and work of bell hooks (1952-2021), prolific poet and activist, author of Ain't I a Woman?, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, and more; the reading features educator Kim Benjamin, and poets Pam Ward, Between Good Men and No Man At All, F. Douglas Brown, ICON, Derrick Weston Brown, Wisdom Teeth, Shonda Buchanan, Black Indian, and Pat Payne, online, free, 4:00 pm PST (Register to attend: www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html)
  • Bird & Beckett presents Purple Gums: Francis Wong, Bobby Bradford, William Roper, and poet Genny Lim, Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, free, 5:00-7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: birdbeckett.com)
  • The Sims Library of Poetry presents award-winning poet Quincy Troupe, Miles: The Autobiography, The Pursuit of Happyness, celebrating his new collection, Duende: Poems, 1966-Now, in reading and conversation with poets devorah major, califia's daughter, and Michael Warr, Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, We Are All the Black Boy, online, free, 3:00-4:30 pm PST (RSVP to attend Zoom: www.simslibraryofpoetry.org/events)

28 FEBRUARY 2022 — monday


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