PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Awards
2 DECEMBER 2023 — saturday
PEN Oakland presents the 34th Annual PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Awards, featuring winners of the Josephine Miles Award, Javier Zamora, Solito: A Memoir; Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind; Perennial Earth: Poetry by Wallace Stevens and Paintings by Alexis Serio, edited by John N. Serio; T.J. English, Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld; Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling: A Novel; Jenny Xie, The Rupture Tense; Kobena Mercer, Alain Locke & The Visual Arts; D.S. Marriott, Before Whiteness; Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, and Mario Hernandez, Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection; the winners of the Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award, Louise Meriwether and the late Sara Webster Fabio, Boss Soul, Soul Ain't Soul Is, Together to the Tune of Coltrane's Equinox, JuJus Alchemy of the Blues; the winners of the Adelle Foley Award, The Daily KOS and the late Joyce Wong; and the winner of the Reginald Martin Award for Excellence in Criticism, Tressie McMillan Cottom; Rockridge Branch of the Oakland Library, 5366 College Avenue, Oakland, free, 2:00-5:00 pm PST (More information here: oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/6553cf82b6d98938007f62d0)


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- 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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- 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)
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)
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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