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5 MAY 2026 — tuesday

• City Lights presents Cinco De Mayo with ZYZZYVA, the legendary literary journal, celebrating Issue 132, with essayist Sarah Matsui, a 2025-2026 Steinbeck Fellow, and story writer Anita Felicelli, How We Know Our Time Travelers, drinks, eats, and a short reading hosted by ZYZZYVA editor Oscar Villalon, in-store, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 pm (citylights.com/events/zyzzyva-issue-132-cinco-de-mayo-celebration)
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6 MAY 2026 — wednesday

• City Lights and Graywolf Press celebrate a book launch for Karen Tei Yamashita, Questions 27 & 28: A Novel, in conversation with Paul Yamazaki, Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale, both in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required for Zoom, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/karen-tei-yamashita-in-conversation-with-paul-yamazaki-tickets-1979949742980?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/karen-tei-yamashita-launch-event-for-questions-27-28-a-novel
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7 MAY 2026 — thursday

• UC Berkeley Library and the Lunch Poems series present Brandon Brown, Work and The Four Seasons, in a poetry reading, Morrison Library (inside Doe Library), 101 Library Ct., University of California Berkeley campus, free, 12:10 pm (www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/lunch-poems)
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• City Lights and Seven Stories Press present Barry Gifford, reading from and celebrating the publication of his new book, The Exception: Uncle Buck's Book of Irrepressible Navigation by Barry Gifford, both in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required for Zoom, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/barry-gifford-tickets-1980091826957?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/barry-gifford-3/)
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8 MAY 2026 — friday

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9 MAY 2026 — saturday

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10 MAY 2026 — sunday

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11 MAY 2026 — monday

• City Lights, Stolen Relations, and Liveright Books present Linford D. Fisher discussing his new book, Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History, on Zoom, free, registration required, 6:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/linford-d-fisher-tickets-1979952507248?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/linford-d-fisher-stealing-america-the-hidden-story-of-indigenous-slavery-in-u-s-history)
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12 MAY 2026 — tuesday

• City Lights and Graywolf Press present M Lin reading from The Memory Museum: Stories, and in conversation with novelist R.O. Kwon, Exhibit, both in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required for Zoom, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/m-lin-in-conversation-with-r-o-kwon-tickets-1979954865301?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/m-lin-in-conversation-with-r-o-kwon)
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13 MAY 2026 — wednesday

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14 MAY 2026 — thursday

• San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck invites Yeva Johnson, Elena Gross and special guests to present at Poem Jam, SFPL's monthly poetry reading; the Main Library's poetry reading series takes place on the second Thursday of each month, unless otherwise noted, San Francisco Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Room, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 pm (on.sfpl.org/05-14-26)
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• City Lights presents genre-busting poet and memoirist Eleni Sikelianos, reading from Memory Rehearsal, and in conversation with poet Matthew Zapruder, both in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required for Zoom, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/eleni-sikelianos-tickets-1979957203294?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/eleni-sikelianos-launch-party-for-memory-rehearsal)
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15 MAY 2026 — friday

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16 MAY 2026 — saturday

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17 MAY 2026 — sunday

• Book Society presents "A Taste of the Land: Stories & Realities of Farming," an evening of conversation and farm fresh flavors with Jennifer Acker, Surrender, Andy Naja-Riese, CEO of the Agricultural Institute of Marin, and Tamara Hicks, Feast on the Farm, owner of Tomula Farms, Book Society, 2945 College Avenue, Berkeley, $45, members $30, 6:00-8:00 pm (www.booksociety.social/event-details/a-taste-of-the-land-stories-realities-of-farming)
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• Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Molly Fisk, Walking Wheel, a novel-in-verse, and poet and translator Francesca Bell, What Small Sound, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).
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18 MAY 2026 — monday

• City Lights and Alice James Books present award-winning poet Cole Swenson, reading from her new collection, Veer, both in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required for Zoom, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/cole-swenson-tickets-1979956665686?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/cole-swenson)
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19 MAY 2026 — tuesday

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20 MAY 2026 — wednesday

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21 MAY 2026 — thursday

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22 MAY 2026 — friday

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23 MAY 2026 — saturday

• City Lights and Verso Books present Trevor Paglen presenting his new book, How To See Like A Machine: Images After AI, on Zoom, free, registration required, 11:00 am PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/trevor-paglen-how-to-see-like-a-machine-images-after-ai-tickets-1982667454729?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/trevor-paglen-how-to-see-like-a-machine-images-after-ai)
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24 MAY 2026 — sunday

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25 MAY 2026 — monday

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26 MAY 2026 — tuesday

• City Lights and Human Rights First present Joshua Colangelo-Bryan discussing his new book, Through The Gates of Hell: American Injustice at Guatanamo Bay, in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/joshua-colangelo-bryan-through-the-gates-of-hell-tickets-1982668835860?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/joshua-colangelo-bryan-through-the-gates-of-hell-american-injustice-at-guatanamo-bay)
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• Join the first meeting of Book Society's new Tough and Tannic Book Club, to discuss Walter Mosley's Gray Down: An Easy Rawlins Mystery, and other detectives and plots, with refreshments, Book Society, 2945 College Avenue, Berkeley, $30, members $15, 6:30-8:00 pm (www.booksociety.social/event-details/the-tough-tannic-book-club-gray-dawn)
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27 MAY 2026 — wednesday

• City Lights and Melville House present Jeremy Lent, presenting his new book, Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All, both in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required for Zoom, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/jeremy-lent-ecocivilization-making-a-world-that-works-for-all-tickets-1982670686395?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/jeremy-lent-ecocivilization-making-a-world-that-works-for-all)
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28 MAY 2026 — thursday

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29 MAY 2026 — friday

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30 MAY 2026 — saturday

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31 MAY 2026 — sunday

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