Litquake presents Cockette member Fayette Hauser and her illustrated book The Cockettes: Acid Drag & Sexual Anarchy, stories and rare photos about the legendary San Francisco hippie theater group, also featuring Cockette members Richard "Scrumbly" Koldewyn and Pam Tent, free, online, 7:00-8:15 pm PDT (Register to attend: litquake2020festival.sched.com/event/dlQo/the-cockettes-acid-drag-sexual-anarchy-and-san-francisco-craziness)
Poetry Flash presents a Sixteen Rivers Press Book Launch poetry reading by Dane Cervine, Children of Obscura: This Mysterious Human, Carolyn Miller, Random Universe, and Lenore Myers, Afterimages, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).
University of San Francisco's MFA Writing Program Reading Series hosts poet Derrick Austin, reading from This Elegance, his forthcoming collection, he is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a Cave Canem Fellow, USFCA's McLaren Complex 252, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, free, 7:45 pm (www.usfca.edu/event/mfa-writing-program-reading-series-derrick-austin/13057164)