Bri Stokes, Jaden Fields, Rhys Langston, Aiyana Sha'niel, more
23 FEBRUARY 2024 — friday
Beyond Baroque presents "Black Radiance," a poetry reading and mini arts festival in collaboration with SKEW Magazine, featuring readings by Bri Stokes, managing editor for the magazine and author of the chapbook A Throat Full of Forest-Dirt, and poets Jaden Fields, Intentional Musings on Staying Alive When I Want to Die, Rhys Langston, Grapefruit Radio, Aiyana Sha'niel, Little Black Poetry Book, and Liliana Jeanine Epps; the reading will showcase work from SKEW's fourth issue on the theme "Black Embodiment," full vendor lineup TBA, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, free, 7:00-10:00 pm PST (RSVP to attend: www.beyondbaroque.org)
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16 NOVEMBER 2025 — sunday
- Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Alison Luterman, Hard Listening, and Yiskah Rosenfeld, reading from two recent collections, Tasting Flight and Naked Beside Fish, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PST (poetryflash.org).
- City Arts and Lectures presents award-winning fiction writer Salman Rushdie, reading from and discussing his forthcoming book The Eleventh Hour, exploring themes of life, death, legacy, and identity through stories set in India, England, and the United States, countries significant to Rushdie's life and work, in conversation with English professor and Co-Director of Critical Theory at UC Berkeley, Poulomi Saha, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $64-$81, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)
17 NOVEMBER 2025 — monday
- City Arts and Lectures presents New York Times bestselling author Padma Lakshmi, Love, Loss, and What We Ate, Easy Exotic, Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet, in conversation with Peabody Award-winning comedian, director, and producer W. Kamau Bell, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $69-$105, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)
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20 NOVEMBER 2025 — thursday
- Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Rosa Lane, Called Back, 2025 Maine Literary Book Award-winner, and Camille Norton, A Folio for the Dark, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 7:00 pm PST (poetryflash.org).
21 NOVEMBER 2025 — friday
- City Arts and Lectures presents Nobel Prize-winner Richard H. Thaler and Alex O. Imas discussing their new co-authored book The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies in Economic Life, in conversation with author Michael Lewis, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $49-$54, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)
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