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Kimberley Lovato
7 AUGUST 2024 — wednesday
Sausalito Books by the Bay welcomes children's author Kimberley Lovato presenting her new book, Pisa Loves Bella, Italian sweets and snacks, Sausalito Books by the Bay, 100 Bay Street, Sausalito, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.sausalitobooksbythebay.com/2024-events/author-event-with-kimberley-lovato)
City Lights Bookstore presents "The Dopamine Variety Show," a celebration of the queer literary organization, DOPAMINE, Books and Printed Matter, and the publication of The Sluts Anthology, edited by Michelle Tea, and fiction writer Clement Goldberg's new book, New Mistakes, featuring reading and discussion from Vera Blossom, Clement Goldberg, Brooke Palmieri, Naz Riahi, Shawn Stewart Ruff, and L Scully, hosted by Michelle Tea, Virtual on Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/the-dopamine-variety-show)
Hammer Museum welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest Gander for a reading from his anticipated collection, Mojave Ghost, Hammer Museum; 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, free, 7:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2024/poetry-forrest-gander)
Poetry at the Claremont Library presents 2024 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Paisley Rekdal, Nightingale, for a special Wednesday evening poetry reading, Claremont Library, 208 North Harvard Avenue, Claremont, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.facebook.com/fourthsaturdayspoetry)
Poetry reading by poet and classical guitarist Steven Rood, Music from Behind a Stone Wall, introduced by Richard Silberg with a brief reading of his own, homemade cookies will be served, sponsored by Temple Sinai's Fine Arts Committee on Culture and Community, Temple Sinai chapel, 2808 Summit, at 28th Street between Webster and Summit, enter at gate in parking lot, Oakland, free, 7:00 pm PDT
City Lights Bookstore welcomes Eleni Stecopoulos to discuss her new book of essays, Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing, in conversation with Miranda Mellis, Demystifications, City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, and online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/eleni-stecopoulos)
Los Angeles reporter Rosanna Xia will be discussing her new environmental nonfiction book, California Against the Sea, with Tyrone Jue, Director of San Francisco Environment, Environmental Center Exhibit Space, Fifth Floor, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: sfpl.org/events/2024/10/30/author-rosanna-xia-conversation-tyrone-jue)