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5 OCTOBER 2025 — sunday

• Annual Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop with poet Sarah Kobrinsky, part of the Emeryville Celebration of the Arts, a month-long juried show with the work of artists who live and/or work in Emeryville; ekphrastic refers to literary works written in response to visual art; the poetry workshop will be followed by a reading on October 26, when a jazz group will inprov from poems written in the workshop in response to the art; poems will be written in response to the art in this year's Emeryville Celebration of the Arts show, free but spaces are limited, register on Eventbrite, Emeryville Celebration of the Arts, 5905 Shellmound Street, Public Market, Emeryville, 2:00-4:00 (www.eventbrite.com/e/ekphrastic-poetry-workshop-with-sarah-kobrinsky-2025-tickets-1685553779729?aff=oddtdtcreator)
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• Bazaar Writers Salon features a reading by poet and memoirist Alice Jones, Cadence of Vanishing, a mixed genre memoir; novelist Susanna Kwan, Awake in the Floating City; novelist Peter Mann, World Pacific; and poet Rachel Richardson, Smother, co-founder of Left Margin LIT; event hosted by Peter Kline, first Sunday of the month, Bazaar Café, 5927 California Street, San Francisco, 6:00 (www.peterklinepoetry.com/bazaar-writers)
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6 OCTOBER 2025 — monday

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7 OCTOBER 2025 — tuesday

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8 OCTOBER 2025 — wednesday

• Womb House Books presents Diana Arterian, reading from Agrippina the Younger, her collection of poems that reach into the past to try to understand the patriarchal systems of today, in conversation with poet J. Michael Martinez, Womb House Books, 470 49th Street, Oakland, free, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm (www.eventbrite.com/o/womb-house-books-79447203573)
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• City Arts and Lectures presents Daniel Handler discussing his new memoir, And Then? And Then? What Else?, which reflects on his childhood in San Francisco, the authors who shaped his voice, and the traumatic early-life experiences that have informed the way he moves through the world, in conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning author Andrew Sean Greer, The Story of a Marriage, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $49, 7:30 (www.cityarts.net/event/daniel-handler-5)
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9 OCTOBER 2025 — thursday

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10 OCTOBER 2025 — friday

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11 OCTOBER 2025 — saturday

• Litquake presents An Evening with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, reading from and discussing Startlement, New and Selected Poems, her new collection spanning nearly twenty years of emphatic, fearlessly original poetry; Limón looks back on her distinguished career and shares new work, Swedish American Hall, 2174 Market Street, San Francisco, $20 advance, $25 door, 7:30 pm-9:00 pm (www.ticketweb.com/event/an-evening-with-ada-limn-swedish-american-hall-tickets/13826814)
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12 OCTOBER 2025 — sunday

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13 OCTOBER 2025 — monday

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14 OCTOBER 2025 — tuesday

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15 OCTOBER 2025 — wednesday

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16 OCTOBER 2025 — thursday

• City Arts and Lectures presents acclaimed historian, The New Yorker staff writer, and Dean of Columbia Journalism Jelani Cobb reading from and discussing his newest book, Three or More is a Riot, a collection of narrative journalism, criticism, and penetrating profiles that capture the crisis, characters, movements, and art of an era, in conversation with john a. powell, Professor of Law and African American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, The Power of Bridging: How to Build a World Where We All Belong, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $49, 7:30 (www.cityarts.net/event/jelani-cobb-3)
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17 OCTOBER 2025 — friday

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18 OCTOBER 2025 — saturday

• City Arts and Lectures presents Andrew Ross Sorkin, journalist for The New York Times and co-anchor of Squawk Box, CNBC's signature morning program, reading from and discussing his new book, 1929: The Inside Story of the Greatest Crash of Wall Street, a spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history, in conversation with CEO of Stripe Patrick Collison, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $64-$69, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)
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19 OCTOBER 2025 — sunday

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20 OCTOBER 2025 — monday

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21 OCTOBER 2025 — tuesday

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22 OCTOBER 2025 — wednesday

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23 OCTOBER 2025 — thursday

• City Arts and Lectures presents photographer Richard Misrach discusses his new book, Half-Baked Stories about My Dead Mom, photographs of cargo ships to and from the Port of Oakland, in conversation with award-winning author and historian Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $49, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)
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24 OCTOBER 2025 — friday

• Transit Books presents A Very Fine Fête, a fundraiser celebrating Transit's tenth anniversary, eat and drink among friends, enjoy Edward Gorey tarot readings, a book apothecary, special edition merch, a prize for best costume, and more, Edward Gorey-inspired dresswear encouraged: Edwardian costume, fur coats, top hats, fascinators, or something that's been calling in your closet, Cellar Maker Brewing Co., 940 Parker Street, Berkeley, $30-$10,000, 7:00-10:00 (www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/a-very-fine-fete)
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25 OCTOBER 2025 — saturday

• Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library presents a reading by Nicelle Davis and Chiwan Choi, 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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26 OCTOBER 2025 — sunday

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27 OCTOBER 2025 — monday

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28 OCTOBER 2025 — tuesday

• Womb House Books presents Francesca Wade, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, in conversation Jessica Ferri, owner of Womb House Books, Womb House Books, Temescal Alley, 470 49th Street, Oakland, free, 7:00 (www.eventbrite.com/e/jamie-hood-trauma-plot-at-womb-house-books-tickets-1404306952899?aff=ebdsoporgprofile)
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29 OCTOBER 2025 — wednesday

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30 OCTOBER 2025 — thursday

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31 OCTOBER 2025 — friday

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