Dara Barnat, Vanessa Hua, Reese Okyong Kwon, Ashley M. Jones

18 FEBRUARY 2017 — saturday

Poet Dara Barnat reads from In the Absence, a collection of poems on her father's illness, fiction writer Vanessa Hua, Deceit and Other Possibilities, fiction writer Reese Okyong Kwon, and poet Ashley M. Jones, Magic City Gospel, Laurel Book Store, 1423 Broadway, Oakland, 5:00 (510/452-9232, www.laurelbookstore.com)