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1 SEPTEMBER 2025 — monday

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2 SEPTEMBER 2025 — tuesday

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3 SEPTEMBER 2025 — wednesday

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4 SEPTEMBER 2025 — thursday

• Mechanics' Institute welcomes award-winning journalist Jeanne Carstensen, A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis, in conversation with author and journalist Michael Montgomery, on the gripping true story of a devastating shipwreck during the biggest refugee crisis since World War II, 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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• Stories Books and Café welcomes music journalist Jeff Weiss to celebrate his highly anticipated new book Waiting for Britney Spears, a scrappy memoir that blurs fact and fancy, as Weiss recounts his stint as a bit player in the celebrity industrial complex, Stories Books and Café, 1716 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, free, 4:33 pm to 7:00 pm (storiesla.com)
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5 SEPTEMBER 2025 — friday

• Golden Sardine presents a Book Release for A Congregation of Alligators, poetry by Grayson Thompson, with Victoria Ruiz and Frankie Sanchez, from Write Bloody Publishing, Golden Sardine, wine bar with a poetry bookstore, 362 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (www.goldensardinesf.com/events)
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6 SEPTEMBER 2025 — saturday

• North Bay Letterpress Arts and the Laguna Foundation present the opening reception for "Watershed Moment," a new exhibit featuring original works by the printers at NBLA, some in collaboration with poets, celebrating the unique beauty of the Laguna de Santa Rosa through the connection of language, image, and place, light refreshments, free, Laguna Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Road, Santa Rosa, 3:00 to 5:00 (watershedmoment.eventbrite.com)
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• 44th annual NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS, honoring the books and authors of Northern California, as well as California translators state-wide; writer and activist Rebecca Solnit will receive the FRED CODY AWARD for Lifetime Achievement and Service, Paul Yamazaki, principal book buyer at City Lights Books for over fifty years, will receive the NCBA GROUNDBREAKER AWARD for Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale, and presentation of awards in FICTION, POETRY, CREATIVE NONFICTION, GENERAL NONFICTION, TRANSLATION IN POETRY and PROSE by California translators, and CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Younger Readers, Middle Grade, Young Adult; bookselling and a reception open to all in the SFPL's Latino/Hispanic Community Room follows, nominated books are selected by the Northern California Book Reviewers, event presented by Poetry Flash and the San Francisco Public Library, with our community partners Women's National Book Association-San Francisco Chapter and Mechanics' Institute Library, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free and open to the public, 2:00 pm (Check back for updates and nominee announcements, poetryflash.org/programs/?p=ncba_2025 or https://sfpl.org)
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• ZYZZYVA Movie Matinee presents The Earring of Madame de… (1953), co-hosted by ZYZZYVA Editor Oscar Villalon, introducing the film will be acclaimed writer Alexander Chee, followed by a conversation with Colombian writer Ingrid Rojas Contreras; a book signing follows at the end of the screening, tickets are limited, Roxie Theatre, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, $13.62 to $17.62, 12:30 (roxie.com/film/zyzzyva-movie-matinee-with-ingrid-rojas-contreras-the-earrings-of-madame-de-35mm)
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7 SEPTEMBER 2025 — sunday

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8 SEPTEMBER 2025 — monday

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9 SEPTEMBER 2025 — tuesday

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10 SEPTEMBER 2025 — wednesday

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11 SEPTEMBER 2025 — thursday

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12 SEPTEMBER 2025 — friday

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13 SEPTEMBER 2025 — saturday

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14 SEPTEMBER 2025 — sunday

• Poetry Flash presents a reading featuring Rafaella Del Bourgo, launching her new book, A Tune Both Familiar and Strange, poems, and Sally Ashton, Listening to Mars, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm (poetryflash.org).
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15 SEPTEMBER 2025 — monday

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16 SEPTEMBER 2025 — tuesday

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17 SEPTEMBER 2025 — wednesday

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18 SEPTEMBER 2025 — thursday

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19 SEPTEMBER 2025 — friday

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20 SEPTEMBER 2025 — saturday

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21 SEPTEMBER 2025 — sunday

• The 28th annual Petaluma Poetry Walk is an annual poetry festival founded in 1996, this year features 26 poets at eight venues: 11:00 am, Hotel Petaluma, Ballroom, 205 Kentucky Street: Sixteen Rivers Press kicks off the Walk with Judy Halebsky, Moira Magneson, and Patrick Cahill, with event presenter Terry Ehret; Noon, Keller Street CoWork, Main Lounge, 140 Keller Street: Unsolicited Press Poets, Cathryn Shea, LeeAnn Pickrell, and Kerry Donoghue, with event presenter Daedalus Howell; 1:00 pm, The Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington Street: Found Poets in The Round, Grayson Thompson, Original Giotis, and Bernice Espinoza, with event presenter Josh Windmiller; 2:00 pm, The Big Easy, 128 American Alley: Black Lawrence Press Poets, Cassandra Dallett, Tureeda Mikell, and Paul Corman-Roberts, with event presenter Ingrid Keir; 3:00 pm, Copperfield's Books, 140 Kentucky Street: The Headliners, Dorianne Laux, Life on Earth, and Joseph Millar, Shine, with event presenter Kary Hess; 4:00 pm, Usher Gallery, 1 Petaluma Blvd. North: the Translator Poets, Nancy Morales, Terry Ehret, Amanda Moore, with event presenter Dave Seter, Sonoma County Poet Laureate; 5:00 pm, The Petaluma Historical Library and Museum, 20 4th Street: The Library Youth Poets, Meg Hamill, Lisa Zheng, and Anaya Ertz, with event presenter John Johnson; 6:00-8:00 pm, Aqus Café, 189 H Street (this location is the farthest, you might want a ride for this venue): The Grande Finale: The Shape of Love with Jennifer Barone, Justin Cole Demeter, Ingrid Keir, Sonoma County Poet Laureate Dave Seter, Kelechi Ubozoh, Bill Vartnaw, with event presenter Kary Hess; all in walking distance across Petaluma, all free, 11:00 am to 8:00 pm (For more information, visit: petalumapoetrywalk.org)
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22 SEPTEMBER 2025 — monday

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23 SEPTEMBER 2025 — tuesday

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24 SEPTEMBER 2025 — wednesday

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25 SEPTEMBER 2025 — thursday

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26 SEPTEMBER 2025 — friday

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27 SEPTEMBER 2025 — saturday

• Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library presents a reading by the Fourth Saturdays Team, the organizers of the series: Lucia Galloway-Dick, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Genevieve Kaplan, and George Hammons, 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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• The Sitting Room presents a Round Table Discussion on "The Poetry of Marianne Moore: Just Fiddle or Genuine?" led by Sonoma County Poet Laureate Dave Seter, bring your own favorite poems by Moore or poems of hers that you find challenging, The Sitting Room, Cotati, 2:00-4:00 (Registration required, sittingroomlibrary.org/events)
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28 SEPTEMBER 2025 — sunday

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29 SEPTEMBER 2025 — monday

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30 SEPTEMBER 2025 — tuesday

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