Dane Cervine, Carolyn Miller, Lenore Myers 3/29, Berkeley more info
Molly Fisk and Francesca Bell 5/17, Berkeley more info
Bay Area Book Festival: Adam Hochschild
6 MAY 2023 — saturday
The Bay Area Book Festival presents historian and journalist Adam Hochschild discussing his book American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis, introduced by Monika Baurlein, Mother Jones Magazine, David Brower Center, Goldman Theatre, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, free, 12:30 pm-1:30 pm PDT (More information here: www.baybookfest.org)
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)