
Aya de León
Aya de León, Brian Copeland, Kia Corthron, Anita Gail Jones, more
19 JUNE 2022 — sunday
Book Passage presents a special presentation of Black writers and activists sharing their reflections on Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the emancipation of those enslaved in the United States, featuring readings by award-winning actor and author Brian Copeland, Not a Genuine Black Man, playwright and novelist Kia Corthron, The Moon and the Mars, artist and writer Anita Gail Jones, The Peach Seed, novelist Aya de León, A Spy in the Struggle, educator and nonfiction writer Jarvis R. Givens, Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching, novelist Robert Jones, Jr., The Prophets, finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction, nonfiction writer Julie Lythcott-Haims, How to Raise an Adult, law professor and writer Rhonda V. Magee, The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness, author Anna Malaika-Tubbs, The Three Mothers, novelist Jason Mott, Hell of a Book, activist Zach Norris, Defund Fear, minister and essayist Danté Stewart, Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle, activist Larry Ward, America's Racial Karma, and physician and writer September Williams, Chasing Mercury, moderated by Paula Farmer, online, free, 4:00 pm PDT (RSVP to attend: www.bookpassage.com/event/special-juneteenth-panel-event-book-passage-online-event)


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9 FEBRUARY 2023 — thursday
- Open mic reading, anything goes, poetry, recitals, rants, rejoicings, come to read or to listen, and be a part of this collaborative experience, with musical accompaniment by Psi Process, every second Thursday of the month, The Ugly Mug Coffee House, 4640 Soquel Drive, Soquel, free, 5:30-7:15 pm PST
- The monthly Poem Jam reading series presents writers published in the new anthology Uncommon Ground: BIPOC Journeys to Creative Activism, hosted by San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck, What Unseen Thing Blows Wishes Across My Surface?, San Francisco Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room A, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00-7:15 pm PST (More information here: sfpl.org/events/2023/02/09/performance-kim-shucks-poem-jam-celebrates-uncommon-ground)
10 FEBRUARY 2023 — friday
11 FEBRUARY 2023 — saturday
12 FEBRUARY 2023 — sunday
13 FEBRUARY 2023 — monday
14 FEBRUARY 2023 — tuesday
15 FEBRUARY 2023 — wednesday
16 FEBRUARY 2023 — thursday
- Green Apple Books presents poet Tawanda Mulalu, Nearness, reading from and discussing his debut full-length collection Please make me pretty, I don't want to die, joined by poets Ritchie Hofmann, Second Empire, and Amy Shimshon-Santo, Catastrophic Molting, Green Apple Books, 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 pm PST (More information here: www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-tawanda-mulalu-richie-hofmann-and-amy-shimshon-santo)
17 FEBRUARY 2023 — friday
18 FEBRUARY 2023 — saturday
19 FEBRUARY 2023 — sunday
20 FEBRUARY 2023 — monday
21 FEBRUARY 2023 — tuesday
- Cobalt Poets presents a reading featuring poet Shonda Buchanan, Black Indian, winner of the 2020 Indie New Generation Book Award, with open mic to follow, online via Zoom, free, 7:30 pm PST (Register to attend: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
22 FEBRUARY 2023 — wednesday
23 FEBRUARY 2023 — thursday
- Poet and artist Daniela Molnar celebrates her debut collection, Chorus, winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Award, in conjunction with her solo art show of the same name, joined by poet Brenda Hillman, Extra Hidden Life, among the Days, come for an evening of art and poetry reading, Round Weather Gallery, 951 Aileen Street, Suite P, Oakland, free, 5:00 pm PST
- Kim Shuck, San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita, reads from her new collection of essays, Noodle, Rant, Tangent, San Francisco Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room A, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00-7:15 pm PST (More information here: sfpl.org/events/2023/02/23/author-kim-shuck-noodle-rant-tangent)
24 FEBRUARY 2023 — friday
25 FEBRUARY 2023 — saturday
26 FEBRUARY 2023 — sunday
- Valley Contemporary SoCal Poets Reading, featuring Laurel Ann Bogen, Washing a Language, Michael C. Ford, Emergency Exits, nominated for a 1998 Pulitzer Prize, Rick Lupert, I am not Writing a Book of Poems in Hawaii, E Amato, Swimming Through Amber, Beth Ruscio, Speaking Parts, Robert Krut, Watch Me Trick Ghosts, and Ashaki Jackson, Language Lesson, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, 2:00 pm PST (RSVP to attend: www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html)
27 FEBRUARY 2023 — monday
28 FEBRUARY 2023 — tuesday
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