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4 AUGUST 2021 — wednesday

• City Lights Books presents short story writer Brian Everson, Song for the Unraveling of the World, reading and discussing his new book, The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell, in conversation with novelist Sarah Rose Etter, The Book of X, free, online, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=books_events)
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• Point Reyes Books presents novelist and Transit Books co-founder Ashley Nelson Levy, reading from and discussing her debut novel Immediate Family, online, free, 7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.ptreyesbooks.com/event/ashley-nelson-levy)
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• Book Passage presents award-winning poet Maggie Smith, Keep Moving and Good Bones, reading from and discussing her new collection of poems, Goldenrod, free, online, 5:30 pm PDT (Watch here: www.bookpassage.com/event/book-passage-presents-maggie-smith-goldenrod-poems-online-event)
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5 AUGUST 2021 — thursday

• Green Apple Books presents poet Kaveh Akbar, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, reading from his new collection of poems, Pilgrim Bell, online via Zoom as well as in-person at Green Apple Books, 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, free, 6:00 pm PDT (Register for the Zoom: www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-kaveh-akbar)
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6 AUGUST 2021 — friday

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7 AUGUST 2021 — saturday

• City Lights Books presents acclaimed musician Marc Ribot discussing his new book, Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist, a collection of stories and essays playfully exploring assumptions about music, life, and death, in conversation with musician and composer Elliot Sharp, IrRational Music, free, online, Noon PDT (Register to attend: www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=books_events)
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8 AUGUST 2021 — sunday

• The Marin Poetry Center presents the Traveling Show, a series of poetry readings featuring new and longtime members of MPC, this reading features poets Elise Kazanjian, Barbara Swift Bauer, Cathryn Shea, Ann Robinson, Kate Peper, and Karen Pierce Gonzalez, free, online, 3:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.marinpoetrycenter.org/programs/trav-show)
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9 AUGUST 2021 — monday

• Book Passage presents poet Maggie Smith, Keep Moving, Good Bones, reading and discussing her new collection of poems, Goldenrod, in conversation with poet Victoria Chang, OBIT, Barbie Chang, online, free, 5:30 pm PDT (RSVP to attend: www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-maggie-smith-discusses-goldenrod-victoria-chang)
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10 AUGUST 2021 — tuesday

• Skylight Books presents best-selling novelist Megan Abbot, Give Me Your Hand, The Fever, reading from and discussing her new book, The Turnout, a captivating thriller set in a family-run ballet studio, in conversation with novelist Ivy Pochoda, These Women, free, online, 6:00 pm PDT (RSVP to attend: www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-megan-abbott-discusses-turnout-ivy-pochoda)
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• Cobalt Poets presents a poetry reading featuring poet and novelist Ryka Aoki, Seasonal Velocities, Light From Uncommon Stars, open mic reading to follow, free, online via Zoom, 7:30 pm PDT (Zoom link here: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
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• City Lights Books presents short story writer Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Brief Encounters with the Enemy, reading from his new book, American Estrangement, free, online, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=books_events)
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• Bookshop Santa Cruz presents Jessamyn Stanley, nonfiction writer and founder of the inclusive wellness community and app, The Underbelly, discussing her new book, Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance, free, online, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.bookshopsantacruz.com)
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11 AUGUST 2021 — wednesday

• Book Passage presents novelist Ash Davidson, reading from and discussing her debut novel, Damnation Spring, in conversation with novelist Nickolas Butler, Shotgun Lovesongs, The Hearts of Men, online, free, 5:30 pm PDT (Watch here: www.bookpassage.com/event/ash-davidson-damnation-spring-online-event)
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• City Lights Books presents Benjamin Gucciardi, I Ask My Sister's Ghost, celebrating the launch of his new poetry collection, West Portal, winner of the 2020 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize, in conversation with poet Eduardo C. Corral, Guillotine, free, online, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=books_events)
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12 AUGUST 2021 — thursday

• Bookshop Santa Cruz presents novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad, American War, reading from and discussing his new novel, What Strange Paradise, online, free, 7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.bookshopsantacruz.com/omar-el-akkad)
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• Book Passage presents novelist Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Bunny, discussing her new novel, All's Well, online, free, 5:30 pm PDT (Watch here: www.bookpassage.com/event/mona-awad-alls-well-online-event)
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• Mechanics' Institute presents Jennifer De Leon, Don't Ask Me Where I'm From, discussing her new book, White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, and Writing, a collection of essays about De Leon coming of age as a Guatemalan-American woman navigating the space between two worlds, her posh college and her parents' home country of Guatemala, in conversation with writer and lawyer Sara Campos, online via Zoom, free for members, public sliding scale $5-$10, 5:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.milibrary.org/events/white-space-essays-culture-race-writing-zoom-aug-12-2021#tickets)
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• Point Reyes Books presents writer and climate activist Daniel Sherrell discussing his new book, Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, a memoir mixed with criticism, written from inside the climate movement, online, free, 7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.ptreyesbooks.com/event/daniel-sherrell)
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• San Francisco Public Library presents the monthly Poem Jam, hosted by San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck, Deer Trails, with special guests, online, free, 6:00-7:15 pm PDT (Register to attend: sfpl.org/events/2021/08/12/performance-kim-shucks-poem-jam)
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13 AUGUST 2021 — friday

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14 AUGUST 2021 — saturday

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15 AUGUST 2021 — sunday

• San Francisco Public Library presents a reading featuring Taurean Horn Press poets, including poet and publisher of Taurean Horn Press Bill Vartnaw, Suburbs of My Childhood; poet and musician Avotcja; poets Gail Mitchell, Root Tracings, Bone Songs, and Jeanne Powell, February Voices, Tom Sharp, Spectacles: A Sampler of Poems and Prose, and San Francisco Poet Laureate emeritus Kim Shuck, Clouds Running In, online, free, 2:00-3:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: sfpl.org/events/2021/08/15/performance-poets-taurean-horn-press)
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16 AUGUST 2021 — monday

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17 AUGUST 2021 — tuesday

• Cobalt Poets presents a poetry reading featuring Salvatore Roseo, open mic reading to follow, free, online via Zoom, 7:30 pm PDT (Zoom link here: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
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• City Lights Books presents graphic novelist Jaime Cortez, discussing his debut short fiction collection, Gordo, in conversation with writer and activist Rebecca Solnit, winner of the Northern California Book Award for Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir, free, online via Zoom, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=books_events)
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18 AUGUST 2021 — wednesday

• Green Apple Books presents novelist and short story writer Kyle Beachy, The Slide, discussing his new memoir, The Most Fun Thing: Dispatches from a Skateboard Life, online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.greenapplebooks.com/event/virtual-event-kyle-beachy)
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• Book Passage presents novelist Laura Munson, This Is Not the Story You Think It Is, founder of the Haven Writing Retreats and Workshops, reading from and discussing her new novel, Willa's Grove, the story of four women at difficult crossroads in their lives, who come together to Willa's Montana homestead to find solace and companionship, free, online, 5:30 pm PDT (Watch here: www.bookpassage.com/event/laura-munson-willas-grove-online-event)
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19 AUGUST 2021 — thursday

• City Lights Books presents novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin, We Cast a Shadow, reading from his new collection of stories, The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You, in conversation with best-selling novelist Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl, free, online via Zoom, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=books_events)
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20 AUGUST 2021 — friday

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21 AUGUST 2021 — saturday

• CalPoets presents the 2021 Poetry Symposium, a weekend-long, virtual event with poetry readings, workshops, and presentations by and for poet-consultants who teach in the schools, featuring San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin, Heaven Is All Goodbyes, Someone's Dead Already, and Shonda Buchanan, Black Indian, poet and editor of Harriet Tubman Press, the symposium also features workshops taught by CalPoets teachers, runs Saturday, August 21-Sunday, August 22, free, donations welcome, online via Zoom, 9:00 am PDT (Register to attend: www.californiapoets.org/events/calpoets-2021-virtual-poetry-symposium-2)
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22 AUGUST 2021 — sunday

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23 AUGUST 2021 — monday

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24 AUGUST 2021 — tuesday

• City Lights Books presents activist and writer Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, discussing her new book, Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion, examining the pervasive myth that America was founded by and for immigrants, and this harmful ideology used to disguise the country's history of slavery, genocide, and white supremacy, in conversation with poet and fiction writer Alejandro Murguía, Southern Front, This War Called Love, free, online via Zoom, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=books_events)
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• Cobalt Poets presents a poetry reading featuring Kendall Hoeft, open mic to follow, free, online via Zoom, 7:30 pm PDT (Zoom link here: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
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• Skylight Books, Marin County Office of Equity, and Dominican University of California present Dr. john a. powell, Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute and author of Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Concepts of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society, part of the Community at Table Speaker Series, a series about anti-racism and social justice, free, online, 5:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.bookpassage.com/event/community-table-speaker-series-dr-john-powell-online-event)
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25 AUGUST 2021 — wednesday

• Green Apple Books presents novelist Marc Anthony Richardson, Year of the Rat, American Book Award-winner, reading from and discussing his new novel, Messiahs, in conversation with novelist and translator Carolina de Robertis, Cantoras, The Gods of Tango, Green Apple Books, 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, free, 6:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-marc-anthony-richardson-and-carolina-de-robertis)
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26 AUGUST 2021 — thursday

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27 AUGUST 2021 — friday

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28 AUGUST 2021 — saturday

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29 AUGUST 2021 — sunday

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30 AUGUST 2021 — monday

• Bookshop Santa Cruz presents journalist Kat Chow, founding member of NPR's Code Switch, reading from and discussing her new book, Seeing Ghosts, a deeply moving memoir about grief and family in the wake of her mother's death, online, free, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.bookshopsantacruz.com/kat-chow)
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• Vroman's Bookstore presents Local Authors Day, featuring three local authors discussing their new work: David W. Reed, Uphill and Into the Wind, a memoir about Reed's odyssey across the United States by bicycle, during the political turmoil of the 1970s; Lin Nelson Benedek with her latest poetry collection, Singing Lessons; and Louise Wannier, Tree Spirits, an interactive picture book illustrated by April Tatiana Jackson; free, online, 6:00 pm PDT (RSVP to attend: www.vromansbookstore.com/event/vroman%E2%80%99s-live-presents-local-author-day-featuring-david-w-reed-lin-nelson-benedek-and-louise)
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31 AUGUST 2021 — tuesday

• Cobalt Poets presents a poetry reading featuring award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, Immigrants in Our Own Land and Healing Earthquake, open mic to follow, free, online via Zoom, 7:30 pm PDT (Zoom link here: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
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