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12 AUGUST 2025 — tuesday

• Skylight Books welcomes Rax King to discuss her new book of personal essays unpacking bad behavior, Sloppy: Or, Doing It All Wrong, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 (www.skylightbooks.com/event)
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13 AUGUST 2025 — wednesday

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14 AUGUST 2025 — thursday

• Mechanics' Institute presents novelists Kate Folk, Sky Daddy, and Brittany Newell, Soft Core, co-sponsored by The Ruby, at Mechanics' Institute, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, tickets from $7.18, 6:00 PM (www.milibrary.org/events/22097)
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• Womb House Books welcomes award-winning novelist and essayist Jamaica Kincaid to read from and discuss her new collection of nonfiction writing, Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974, a brilliant, trenchant, hilarious self-portrait of the artist and a testament to how this inimitable, self-created mind and spirit has become one of our greatest, most original writers, in conversation with the writer and founder of Womb House Books, Jessica Ferri, online via Zoom, $18, 4:00 PDT (Register for event here: www.eventbrite.com/e/jamaica-kincaid-putting-myself-together-at-womb-house-books-tickets-1568274032849?aff=ebdsoporgprofile)
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• San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck presents a poetry reading by Jennifer Hasegawa, Norma Cole, and Mary Burger, Poem Jam takes place on the second Thursday of each month unless otherwise noted, San Francisco Main Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Room, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 (415/557-4400, on.sfpl.org/08-14-25)
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15 AUGUST 2025 — friday

• California Poets in the Schools presents their annual Statewide Poetry Symposium, "The Future We Speak," a three-day event, Day 1 begins with Registration and a light dinner, 5:30, and an evening program with poet Fernando Albert Salinas at 7:15, both at San Benito Arts Council; this workshop is designed to bring together longtime members of the CalPoets network and new voices, offering a space to connect, collaborate, and spark creativity, Fernando Albert Salinas is an award-winning educator teaching poetry workshops to K-12 students and incarcerated youth, and is the California Poets in the Schools Program Manager; he is well-known for his leadership as an arts activist throughout California, especially in Ventura County, held at San Benito Arts Council, 35 5th Street, Hollister; participate in the entire Symposium or in individual events; Registration and Dinner 5:30-7:00, Evening Program 7:15-8:30 (Registration:www.cpits.org/events/full-event-the-future-we-speak-calpoets-symposium-2025)
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• Stories Books and Café welcomes Chloé Caldwell to celebrate her new book, Trying, a memoir that intimately captures a self in the process of becoming, in conversation with author Michelle Tea, Stories Books and Café, 1716 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 pm (storiesla.com)
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• Skylight Books welcomes Lio Min to read from and discuss her new immersive novel, The L.O.V.E. Club, following three estranged high schoolers who are pulled into a video game to pursue the disappearance of their friend, with Clare Osongco, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 (www.skylightbooks.com/event)
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16 AUGUST 2025 — saturday

• California Poets in the Schools presents their annual Statewide Poetry Symposium, "The Future We Speak," a three-day event, Day 2 begins with breakfast; 9:30 am: Rosanna Alvarez presents "The Creative Pulse: Poetry, Expression & Possibility in Community"; 11:30 am: Kim Addonizio presents "Poetry Reading & Book Signing"; 3:45 pm: Michael Jasso, "Set the Stage: an introduction in Bringing Spoken Word to the Classroom" and Nancy Lynée Woo, "Poetry of Resistance"; 5:00 pm: James Coats, "Performance Games: Teaching Performance through Play and Improv," Gia Civerolo, "Engaging in Erasure Poetry," earlier events held at San Benito Arts Council, 35 5th Street, Hollister; 7:00 pm–8:30 pm: Open Mic held at Hills Bookstore, 650 San Benito Street, Suite 140, downtown Hollister; participate in the entire Symposium or in individual events; All-day, events 8:30 am to 8:30 pm (Registration: https://www.cpits.org/events/full-event-the-future-we-speak-calpoets-symposium-2025; To register for Kim Addonizio Poetry Craft Workshop & Reading only: www.cpits.org/events/only-kim-addonizio-poetry-craft-workshop-reading)
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17 AUGUST 2025 — sunday

• California Poets in the Schools presents their annual Statewide Poetry Symposium, "The Future We Speak," a three-day event, Day 3 begins 9:00 am–10:00 am with a community meeting and breakfast; 10:15 am–11:15 am: Amanda Chiado presents "Gratitude as Gateway," using gratitude as a springboard to creating new work and structuring student workshops; 11:15 am: Symposium Closing; San Benito Arts Council, 35 5th Street, Hollister; participate in the entire Symposium or in individual events; (Registration: www.cpits.org/events/full-event-the-future-we-speak-calpoets-symposium-2025)
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• Stories Books and Café presents "Echo Park Rising: Outlaw Women," a literary and music salon, Kim Dallesandro, Zoe Hansen, Michelle Carr, with musicians, Stories Books and Café, 1716 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, free, 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm (storiesla.com)
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18 AUGUST 2025 — monday

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19 AUGUST 2025 — tuesday

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20 AUGUST 2025 — wednesday

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21 AUGUST 2025 — thursday

• Poetry Night Reading Series presents Rhony Bhopla and Mariam Ahmed, with host Dr. Andy Jones, air-conditioned venue, John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street, Davis, 7:00 (www.poetryindavis.com)
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22 AUGUST 2025 — friday

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23 AUGUST 2025 — saturday

• Sixteen Rivers Press presents a poetry reading celebrating their featured titles for 2025, featuring Moira Magneson,In the Eye of the Elephant, Patrick Cahill, if we are the forest the animals dream, Terry Ehret and Nancy Morales, award-winning co-translators of Plagios/Plagiarisms, Volume III, poems by Ulalume González de León; the poets will read from their new titles followed by Q&A, Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley, free, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm (sixteenrivers.org)
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• Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library presents Raundi Moore-Kondo and Donna Spruijt-Metz, Claremont Helen Renwick Library, 208 N. Harvard Avenue, in the Claremont Village, Claremont, free, 2:00 (909/621-4902, www.claremontlibrary.org/monthly-poetry-readings.html)
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24 AUGUST 2025 — sunday

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25 AUGUST 2025 — monday

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26 AUGUST 2025 — tuesday

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27 AUGUST 2025 — wednesday

• Stories Books and Café welcomes Matt Baldwin to discuss his book How to Play Guitar: The Collected Zines, Stories Books and Café, 1716 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 (storiesla.com)
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28 AUGUST 2025 — thursday

• Mechanics' Institute welcomes novelist Peter Mann in conversation about World Pacific, his darkly comic novel of intrigue, adventure, and the perils of self-invention, Mechanics' Institute, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, tickets from $7.18, 6:00 PM (www.milibrary.org/cultural-programs/author-talks)
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• Writers Read presents a featured reader, open mic follows, maximum time for each reader is six minutes, with emcee Michael Riedell, Grace Hudson Museum, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, suggested donation $5, refreshments, featured reading 7:00, open mic 8:00 (For information, email: Michael Riedell, Innisfreeriedell@gmail.com)
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29 AUGUST 2025 — friday

• Cleyvis Natera reads from and presents her new novel, The Grand Paloma Resort, joined in conversation by Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
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30 AUGUST 2025 — saturday

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31 AUGUST 2025 — sunday

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