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29 OCTOBER 2024 — tuesday
- In celebration of his memoir, Roman Year fiction author André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name, will be in conversation with novelist Michael David Lukas, Books on the Park on 9th Avenue, 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, also on YouTube, free, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: greenapplebooks.com/event/2024-10-29/9th-ave-andre-aciman-michael-david-lukas)
- City Lights Bookstore presents "The Dopamine Variety Show," a celebration of the queer literary organization, DOPAMINE, Books and Printed Matter, and the publication of The Sluts Anthology, edited by Michelle Tea, and fiction writer Clement Goldberg's new book, New Mistakes, featuring reading and discussion from Vera Blossom, Clement Goldberg, Brooke Palmieri, Naz Riahi, Shawn Stewart Ruff, and L Scully, hosted by Michelle Tea, Virtual on Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/the-dopamine-variety-show)
- Hammer Museum welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest Gander for a reading from his anticipated collection, Mojave Ghost, Hammer Museum; 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, free, 7:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2024/poetry-forrest-gander)
30 OCTOBER 2024 — wednesday
- Grace Feuerverger, Oasis of Dreams, reads from her memoir, Winter Light: The Memoir of a Child of Holocaust Survivors, book signing follows, Books Inc. Berkeley, 1491 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00 pm PDT (For directions, visit: booksinc.net/event/2024-10-30/grace-feuerverger-books-inc-berkeley)
- In celebration of her new poetry collection, Estelle Meaning Star, Sarah Rosenthal reads with poets Nathalie Khankan, Hazel White, and Maw Shein Win, Books on the Park on 9th Avenue, 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, also on YouTube, free, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: greenapplebooks.com/event/2024-10-30/9th-ave-sarah-rosenthal-nathalie-khankan-hazel-white-and-maw-shein-win)
- Lyrics and Dirges is a monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning poets and writers, hosted and curated by East Bay poets MK Chavez and Sharon Coleman, Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.pegasusbookstore.com/ld-oct24)
- Poetry at the Claremont Library presents 2024 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Paisley Rekdal, Nightingale, for a special Wednesday evening poetry reading, Claremont Library, 208 North Harvard Avenue, Claremont, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.facebook.com/fourthsaturdayspoetry)
- Poetry reading by poet and classical guitarist Steven Rood, Music from Behind a Stone Wall, introduced by Richard Silberg with a brief reading of his own, homemade cookies will be served, sponsored by Temple Sinai's Fine Arts Committee on Culture and Community, Temple Sinai chapel, 2808 Summit, at 28th Street between Webster and Summit, enter at gate in parking lot, Oakland, free, 7:00 pm PDT
- City Lights Bookstore welcomes Eleni Stecopoulos to discuss her new book of essays, Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing, in conversation with Miranda Mellis, Demystifications, City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, and online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/eleni-stecopoulos)
- Los Angeles reporter Rosanna Xia will be discussing her new environmental nonfiction book, California Against the Sea, with Tyrone Jue, Director of San Francisco Environment, Environmental Center Exhibit Space, Fifth Floor, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: sfpl.org/events/2024/10/30/author-rosanna-xia-conversation-tyrone-jue)
31 OCTOBER 2024 — thursday
- Writers Read Ukiah monthly poetry reading series takes place on the last Thursday of the month, their Halloween special welcomes the "Voice of Sonoma Valley's Poet on the Beat," Lin Marie Vincent reading from Sky Fishing and haiku in honor of the Ukiahhaiku Festival, an hour-long open mic session follows the featured reading, six-minutes maximum time for each reader, Grace Hudson Museum, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, free, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.gracehudsonmuseum.org/new-events/2024/10/31/writers-read-ukiahs-literary-salon)
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