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26 FEBRUARY 2024 — monday

• Fiction writer and former reporter Sarah Ruiz-Grossman discusses her debut novel, A Fire So Wild, in conversation with Traci Thomas, creator and host of the podcast The Stacks, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 pm PST (More information here: www.skylightbooks.com)
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27 FEBRUARY 2024 — tuesday

• Ashleigh Greene Wade celebrates her new book, Black Girl Autopoetics, in conversation with scholar-activist and author Dr. Janice Johnson Dias; the new book explores Black girl content creators and how their online personas render them both vulnerable to harassment and online violence, and invisible as they are discredited for their creative work, online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm to 8:00pm PST (To register, visit Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/black-girl-autopoetics-ashleigh-greene-wade-tickets-775341054967?aff=oddtdtcreator)
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• Cobalt Poets presents a reading with featured poet Scott Ferry, Midnight Glossolalia, followed by an open mic, online via Zoom, free, 7:30 pm PST (Register to attend: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
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28 FEBRUARY 2024 — wednesday

• The Museum of African Diaspora celebrates the release of Adraint Bereal's The Black Yearbook, with a conversation by San Francisco-based artist and graphic designer George McCalman, and photographer Adraint Bereal, whose new book features one-hundred interviews and photographs of Black students at American colleges,
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• UC Berkeley and the Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network (DVAN) presents a reading and Q&A with French-Vietnamese author Line Papin on The Girl Before Her, her debut novel in English translation; the event will be moderated by writer and journalist Mel Kritikopoulos, Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall 315, University of California Berkeley campus, Berkeley, free to the public, 5:00 to 6:30pm PST
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29 FEBRUARY 2024 — thursday

• City Lights Books and The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University present a reading and conversation with poets Major Jackson, Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022, and Kalamu ya Salaam, Be About Beauty, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 pm PST (More information here: citylights.com/events)
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• Museum of African Diaspora in collaboration with KALW and Noise Pop presents a live performance with aja monet, supported by poets Tongo Eisen-Martin, Christell Victoria Roach, and Nia McAllister; aja's new album, when the poems do what they do, combines jazz and spoken word to explore Black resistance, love and the inexhaustible quest for joy; in this performance, aja will be joined by poets Tongo Eisen-Martin,Christell Victoria Roach, and Nia McAllister, and musicians Christian Scott, Samora Pinderhughes, Elena Pinderhughes, Luques Curtis, Weedie Braimah and Marcus Gilmore, Swedish American Hall, 2174 Market Street, San Francisco, $30, 8:00 pm (To purchase tickets: cafedunord.com/tm-event/aja-monet)
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• Women's National Book Association presents a share and tell mixer, writer's advice edition, come share what you do and ask writing, marketing, and publishing questions, and make some new connections in a community of writers coming together to pool resources and wisdom, online via Zoom, free, Noon pm PST (Register to attend: wnba-sfchapter.org/february-29th-share-tell-mixer-writers-advice-edition)
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• Writers Read Ukiah presents featured poets Brenda Yeager, Torch Song // Transcendental, forthcoming, and Jessyca Lytle, followed by an open mic, six-minutes per reader, Grace Hudson Museum, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, free, suggested donation $5, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, contact Michael Riedell: innisfreeriedell@gmail.com)
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