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16 FEBRUARY 2025 — sunday

• Writer, playwright, organizer, and educator Dr. Mahogany L. Browne, former San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin, recording/performing artist Destiny Muhammad, and Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Emeritus Tshaka Campbell read and perform for a special Black History Month event celebrating the power of poetry and music, SJZ Break Room, 310 South 1st Street, San Jose, 6:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/tiny-room-poetry-series-tickets-1131267263839?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3KxvMAG7M-3jW_crIJM_FFFNqnjaqJLOdtQdAjFIT_9_hYcW6MYQJSHU8_aem_C2VWI8RhXYOAhYnr_Nyevw)
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• Poetry Exchange presents workshop facilitator, writer, actor Elijah B Pringle III in a reading, Virtual on Zoom, free, 1:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.pcsj.org/events/ypupf6qlb8dwpmsljmm5o2y8s7ln1z)
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• Nico Lang discusses his book, American Teenager: How Trans Kids are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era, documenting the lives of transgender, nonbinary, and genderfluid teens and their families, Fabulosa Books, 489 Castro Street, San Francisco, 5:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.fabulosabooks.com/events.html)
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17 FEBRUARY 2025 — monday

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18 FEBRUARY 2025 — tuesday

• Poet and writer Yael Valencia Aldana reads from and discusses her new poetry collection, Black Mestiza: Poems, in conversation with writer and poet Jennifer Maritza McCauley, SCAR ON/SCAR OFF, online, 6:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/yael-valencia-aldana-in-conversation-with-jennifer-maritza-mccauley)
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• Ella Alexander presents her debut novel, The Sleeping Land, DIESEL, 225 26th Street, Suite 33, Santa Monica, 6:30 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.dieselbookstore.com/event/Ella-Alexander-The-Sleeping-Land-Author-signing)
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• Joseph Lowndes, From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon, will discuss his forthcoming book, Adventures in Post-Democracy, with Keally McBride, Political Theories of Decolonization: Postcolonialism and the Problem of Foundations, Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco, Clio's, 353 Grand Avenue, Oakland, $7-$17 for seat and/or drink included, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/on-ramps-to-authoritarianism-tickets-1238167354889?aff=ebdsoporgprofile)
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19 FEBRUARY 2025 — wednesday

• Saint Mary's College of California Visiting Writers Series welcomes poet Sara Borjas, Heart like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff, in conversation, De La Salle Hall, Hagerty Lounge,1928 St Mary's Road, Moraga, free, 2:30 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.stmarys-ca.edu/graduate-professional-studies/mfa-creative-writing)
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20 FEBRUARY 2025 — thursday

• "Writing Women's Lives," with Faith Adiele, Voice/Over: A Memoir Breakout in 7 Movies, Susan Kiyo Ito, I Would Meet You Anywhere, and Grace Loh Prasad, The Translator's Daughter, discussing the importance of women's stories, Womb House Books, 470 49th Street, Temescal Alley, Oakland, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/refusing-silence-writing-womens-lives-at-womb-house-books-tickets-1235009599959?aff=ebdsoporgprofile)
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21 FEBRUARY 2025 — friday

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22 FEBRUARY 2025 — saturday

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23 FEBRUARY 2025 — sunday

• Chicana writer Dorotea Reyna will read from her book, Los Cedros: A Tejana Memoir, Medicine for Nightmares, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, 3:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: medicinefornightmares.com/events/book-reading-and-signing-by-dorotea-reyna-author-of-los-cedros-a-tejana-memoir)
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24 FEBRUARY 2025 — monday

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25 FEBRUARY 2025 — tuesday

• The Boston Review celebrates their 50th Anniversary, with a discussion on their new publication, AI Futures, Clio's, 353 Grand Avenue, Oakland, 8:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-review-50th-anniversary-party-tickets-1233976600229?aff=ebdsoporgprofile)
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26 FEBRUARY 2025 — wednesday

• Author of two National Book Award-winning novels, Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward will discuss her latest novel, Let Us Descend, as part of Writer's Symposium by the Sea 30th Anniversary Event, "Writing That Redeems," with founder and host of the annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea and journalist Dean Nelson, Brown Chapel, Point Loma Nazarene University, 3900 Lomaland Drive, San Diego, $16, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.warwicks.com/event/ward-2025)
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27 FEBRUARY 2025 — thursday

• Poet and author of The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros will discuss her first poetry collection in twenty-eight years, Woman Without Shame, as part of Writer's Symposium by the Sea 30th Anniversary Event, "Writing That Redeems," with founder and host of the annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea and journalist Dean Nelson, Brown Chapel, Point Loma Nazarene University, 3900 Lomaland Drive, San Diego, $16, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.warwicks.com/event/cisneros-2025)
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• Storyteller and dancer Nancy Wang sread from her historical fiction novel, Red Altar, following three generations of the same Chinese family that started the fishing industry in the Monterey Bay Area in 1850, Medicine for Nightmares, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: medicinefornightmares.com/events/nancy-wang-presents-red-altar)
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28 FEBRUARY 2025 — friday

• Author of the best-selling memoir, Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom will discuss his latest novel, The Little Liar, as part of Writer's Symposium by the Sea 30th Anniversary Event, "Writing That Redeems," with founder and host of the annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea and journalist Dean Nelson, Brown Chapel, Point Loma Nazarene University, 3900 Lomaland Drive, San Diego, $16, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.warwicks.com/event/albom-2025)
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• William Archila reads from his new poetry collection, S is For, winner of the 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, and Lory Bedikian reads from her new poetry collection, Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body, winner of the 2023 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize, Judging by the Cover, 1029 F Street, Fresno, 4:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.judgingbythecoverbookstore.com)
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• Kim Dower, I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom: Poems on Motherhood, presents her newest collection, What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria; she will be joined in a reading and conversation with Kate Gale, Publisher, Co-founder, and Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, $12, 8:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/la-book-launch-what-she-wants-by-kim-dower-tickets-1146458320699?aff=oddtdtcreator)
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