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19 SEPTEMBER 2021 — sunday

• The Before Columbus Foundation presents the 2021 American Book Awards, celebrating outstanding literary achievement from America's diverse literary community, honoring the winners: Ayad Akhtar (Homeland Elegies: A Novel, Maisy Card (These Ghosts Are Family), Anthony Cody (Borderland Apocrypha), Ben Ehrenreich (Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time), Johanna Fernández (The Young Lords: A Radical History), Carolyn Forché (In the Lateness of the World: Poems), John Giorno (Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment), Cathy Park Hong (Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning), Randall Horton ({#289-128}: Poems), Gerald Horne (The Drawing of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century), Robert P. Jones (White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity), Judy Juanita (Manhattan my ass, you're in Oakland), William Melvin Kelley and Aiki Kelley, illustrator (Dunfords Travels Everywheres); the Lifetime Achievement Award winner: Dr. Maryemma Graham; the Walter and Lillian Lowenfels Award for Criticism winner: Shana Redmond (Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson); and the Anti-Censorship Award winner: Jacob Soboroff (Separated: Inside an American Tragedy); celebrate these writers and their work, free, online, 2:00-4:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com)
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• Poetry Flash presents a virtual Zeitgeist Press poetry reading by Bruce Isaacson, Leningrad to Las Vegas, and Jan Steckel, Like Flesh Covers Bone; poet and editor Deborah Fruchey presents the late Rudy Jon Tanner's If Thirst is Proof of Water, online via Zoom, free, 3:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: please click here; you will receive an email with a link to join the reading)
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20 SEPTEMBER 2021 — monday

• Rivertown Poets presents an open mic poetry reading, three-minutes per reader, hosted by poet and artist Sande Anfang, Xylem Highway, held the first and third Mondays of the month, free, online via Zoom, 6:15 pm PDT (Register to attend/sign up for open mic: aqus.com/rivertownpoets)
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• Rivertown Poets presents a monthly reading, this month featuring poets Diane Lee Moomey, Figure in a Landscape, and Florencia Milito, Ituizángo: Exiles and Reveries, followed by an open mic reading, three minutes per reader, hosted by poet Sande Anfang, online via Zoom, free, 6:15 pm PDT (Register to attend/sign up for open mic: aqus.com/rivertownpoets)
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• Join novelist Nathaniel Rich, Losing Earth, Odds Against Tomorrow, and nonfiction writer Chris Jennings, Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism, for a discussion of George R. Stewart's eco-novel, Storm, first published in 1941, the prescient novel is a pioneer in the genre examining humans' relationship to the natural world, hosted by Point Reyes Books, free, online, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.ptreyesbooks.com/event/nathaniel-rich-and-chris-jennings)
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21 SEPTEMBER 2021 — tuesday

• Red Hen Press presents a reading and conversation with four women authors who all have interesting, non-literary professions: nurse Yu-Han Cho, lawyer Joan Nockels Wilson, fisher and engineer Mia Heavener, and researcher and activist Florencia Ramirez, discussing how they balance work with the creative process and book promotion, online via YouTube Live, ree, 6:30-7:30 pm PDT (Watch here: www.pw.org/literary_events/rhp_x_annenberg_beach_house_work_work_balance)
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• Cobalt Poets presents poet Diane Funston, with open mic to follow, free, online via Zoom, 7:30 pm PDT (Zoom link here: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
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• Gatsby Books presents a poetry reading with open mic, featuring GoldScriptCo, a publishing company of chapbooks and poetry, followed by a book signing, in-person, Gatsby Books, 5535 E Spring Street, Long Beach, free, 6:30-9:00 pm PDT (For more information: www.gatsbybooks.com/events)
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22 SEPTEMBER 2021 — wednesday

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23 SEPTEMBER 2021 — thursday

• San Francisco Public Library presents a reading featuring poets Josiah Luis Alderete, Baby Axolotls & Old Pochos; Ricardo Tavarez, Pan Dulce Poets; Monica Zarazua, co-founder of Pochino Press; hector son of hector, Jose Hector Cadenas, and Lourdes Figueroa, Ruidos = To Learn Speak; all members of the San Francisco International Flor y Canto, a literary festival celebrating the literature and culture of San Francisco's Mission District, free, online via Zoom, 6:30-7:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: sfpl.org/events/2021/09/23/performance-reading-flor-y-canto)
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• City Lights Books presents a reading featuring poet CA Conrad, While Standing in Line for Death, reading from their new collection, Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Instinct Vibration, and artist and poet Sawako Nakayasu, Pink Waves, reading from her new book, Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From, finalist for the Big Other Award in Poetry, free, online via Zoom, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=books_events)
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• The Poetry Center presents poets Keith Donnell, Jr., The Move, and Anthony Fangary, HARAM, reading and in conversation, in-person at The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, free, 1:00 pm PDT (For more information: poetry.sfsu.edu/events/29199-keith-donnell-jr-and-antony-fangary-reading-and-conversation)
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• Point Reyes Books presents Pulitzer Prize-winner and best-selling novelist Richard Powers, The Overstory, discussing his new book, Bewilderment, the heartrending story of an astrobiologist raising his son after the death of his wife, and the ties of family, the natural world, and what lies beyond, free, online, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.ptreyesbooks.com/event/richard-powers)
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24 SEPTEMBER 2021 — friday

• Skylight Books presents poet Andrea Abi-Karam, Extratransmission, reading and discussing their new book, Villainy, an explosive collection of punk poems exploring hierarchies, street protest, queer spaces, and political action, free, online, 6:30 pm PDT (RSVP to attend: www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-andrea-abi-karam-reads-and-discusses-villainy)
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25 SEPTEMBER 2021 — saturday

• Green Apple Books presents Rachel Long, poet and founder of Octavia Poetry Collective for Women of Colour, reading and discussing her debut collection of poems, My Darling from the Lions, in conversation with Elaine Costello, America Is Not the Heart, online via Zoom, free, Noon PDT (Register to attend: www.greenapplebooks.com/event/virtual-event-rachel-long-and-elaine-castillo)
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• Book Passage presents novelist and activist Cathy Rath reading from and discussing her debut novel, Ripple Effect, a complex story of family secrets and discovery set during the 1960s student rebellions in the United States, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Boulevard, Corte Madera, free, 4:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.bookpassage.com/event/cathy-rath-ripple-effect-corte-madera-store)
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26 SEPTEMBER 2021 — sunday

• The Claremont Library presents a reading with poet Andrea Carter Brown, September 12, and poet and playwright Beverly Lafontaine, part of the Fourth Sundays reading series, Louise Roberts Room, Claremont United Church of Christ, 233 W Harrison Avenue, Claremont, free, 2:00 pm PDT (For more information: www.facebook.com/events/3736094436495622)
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• The Claremont Library's Fourth Sundays Reading Series presents a poetry reading featuring Andrea Carter Brown, The Disheveled Bed, Brook & Rainbow, and Beverly Lafontaine, published in Blue Satellite, Waves, and elsewhere, Claremont United Church of Christ, 233 Harrison Avenue, Claremont, free, 2:00-4:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.facebook.com/events/3736094436495622)
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• The San Francisco Public Library presents writer and artist Jaime Cortez, Sexile, discussing his debut collection of short stories, Gordo, a queer, coming-of-age story set in a 1970s migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California, in conversation with poet Yosimar Reyes, For Colored Boys Who Speak Softly…), online, free, 2:00-3:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: sfpl.org/events/2021/09/26/author-jaime-cortez-conversation-yosimar-reyes)
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• Sixteen Rivers Press presents a reading featuring poets Denise Low, Shadow Light, Wing, and Kim Shuck, Exile Heart, Deer Trails, in-person in the Sacred Hoop Garden, Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley, free, 3:00 pm PDT
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• San Francisco Center for the Book presents the 18th Annual Roadworks Steamroller Printing Festival; this year's classic print artists are Katherine Case, Danguole Kuolas, Rik Olson, Erik Rewitzer, Michelle Wilson, SFCB, 375 Rhode Island Street, San Francisco, between 16th and 17th, San Francisco, free, 11:00 am-4:00 pm (Visit: sfcb.org/Roadworks2021)
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27 SEPTEMBER 2021 — monday

• Green Apple Books presents Keith Boykin, CNN political commentator and best-selling author of Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America, discussing his new book, Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America, a call to fight racism, xenophobia, sexism, and homophobia, free, online via Zoom and in person, Green Apple Books, 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, 6:00 pm PDT (Register for the Zoom link here: www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-keith-boykin)
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• The Center for Literary Arts of San José is pleased to present Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen: An American Lyric, a reflection on racial inequalities through personal, professional and artistic lenses, in a reading and conversation with Jalylah Burrell, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at San José University, online via Crowdcast, free, 5:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.crowdcast.io/e/cla-presents-claudia/register)
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• City Lights Books presents Steven Reigns, first Poet Laureate of West Hollywood, Inheritance, reading from and discussing his new book, A Quilt for David, which uncovers the hidden history of the life and death of Dr. David Acer, a gay man accused of infecting his patients with HIV, and the media hysteria and scapegoating that overshadowed his life, free, online via Zoom, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=books_events)
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28 SEPTEMBER 2021 — tuesday

• Cobalt Poets presents a reading featuring poet Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, winner of an A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, open mic to follow, free, online via Zoom, 7:30 pm PDT (Zoom link here: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
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• Two Lines Press presents Carl de Souza discussing his novel, Kaya Days, newly translated from French into English, in conversation with Jeffrey Zuckerman, translator of the book, and poet and essayist Kei Miller, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion, online via Zoom, free, 4:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: catranslation.org/event/kaya-days-carl-de-souza-and-jeffrey-zuckerman-in-conversation-with-kei-miller)
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29 SEPTEMBER 2021 — wednesday

• City Lights Books presents a reading of Project 1521, a collection of Southern California poets, artists, and scholars, featuring poets Gloria Enedina Alvarez, Yago S. Cura, Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, Arminé Ikandossian, Darren J. de Leon, Diana Magaloni, Linda Ravenswood de Montaño, and visual artist Sandy Rodriguez, hosted by Josiah Luis Alderete, poet and host of the reading series "Speaking Axolotl", reading from their new collection, You Will Not Be Forgotten, the debut volume of poetry from the group, free, online via Zoom, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)
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• Bookshop Santa Cruz presents novelist and filmmaker Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats, All Over Creation, discussing and reading from her new novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness, online, $34, ticket includes a copy of the book, 6:00 pm PDT (Purchase tickets here: www.bookshopsantacruz.com/ruth-ozeki)
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30 SEPTEMBER 2021 — thursday

• San Francisco Public Library presents poet Brian Komei Dempster, Topaz, reading from his new collection of poetry, Seize, winner of the Julie Suk Award and finalist for both the Eric Hoffer Book Award and the National Indie Excellence Award in Poetry, free, online, 6:00-7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: sfpl.org/events/2021/09/30/author-brian-komei-dempster-seize)
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• The Poetry Center presents a reading of Coronavirus Haikus, a selection of poems written by frontline workers during the Covid 19 pandemic, featuring poet and essayist Mark Nowak, Coal Mountain Elementary, and the Worker Writers School, a school founded by Nowak that represents New York City's least-heard population, low-wage workers, including Thomas Barzey, Kerl Brooks, Estabon Chimilio, Nimfa Despabiladeras, Lorraine Garnett, Davidson Garrett, Seth Goldman, Christine Lewis, Doreen McGill, Alando McIntyre, Kelebohile Nkhereanye, Alfreda Small, and Paloma Zapata, emceed by Tanya Hollis, online, free, 7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: poetry.sfsu.edu/events/29200-mark-nowak-and-worker-writers-school-coronavirus-haiku-reading-and-conversation)
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• Diesel Bookstore presents best-selling science writer Mary Roach, Stiff, Gulp, discussing her new book, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law, in conversation with L.A. Times columnist Patt Morrison, online, free, 5:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.dieselbookstore.com/event/virtual-event-thursday-september-30-530pm-mary-roach-joins-la-times-ideas-exchange-discuss)
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• Come join this German-English Translation Slam, an event where translators Didem Uca and Jon Cho-Polizzi independently translate a German poem by poet Keça Filankes into English, read their translations, and discuss their choices as well as the cultural and linguistic impact of the original poem, followed by an audience Q&A, moderated by David Gramling, online, free, 10:00-11:00 am PDT (Register to attend: www.pw.org/literary_events/germanenglish_translation_slam_one_text_two_translators_and_no_wrong_answers)
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