Dane Cervine, Carolyn Miller, Lenore Myers 3/29, Berkeley more info
Molly Fisk and Francesca Bell 5/17, Berkeley more info
Matthew Gavin Frank with Elena Passarello
7 APRIL 2021 — wednesday
Point Reyes Books presents nonfiction writer and journalist Matthew Gavin Frank discussing his new book, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa, in conversation with actor and writer Elena Passarello, Let Me Clear My Throat, free, donations welcome, online, 7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.ptreyesbooks.com/event/matthew-gavin-frank)
City Lights and Litquake co-present Hannah Lillith Assadi reading from and celebrating the publication of her new book, Paradiso 17: A Novel, in conversation with memoirist and novelist Ingrid Rojas Contreras, in-store, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 pm (citylights.com/events/hannah-lillith-assadi)
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)