phati’tude announces the launch of “Real Poetry, Real Talk,” a hot new reading series at the Bowery Poetry Club on Thursday, May 12, 2011 featuring distinguished poets Louis Reyes Rivera and Rachel Hadas, and is hosted by Jon Sands.
Author Salman Rushdie will give a public lecture at Duke University on April 12, 2011 called “Public Events, Private Lives: Literature and Politics in the Modern World.” The lecture is open to the public, but tickets are required.
Date & Time: Wed., March 30, 2011 @ 7:00 PM Location: City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, SF, CA Admission: Free Contact Info: 415-362-8193, www.citylights.com Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould present Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire.
Date & Time: Tue., March 29, 2011 @ 5:30-7:30 PM Location: Mills Hall Living Room, 5000 Macarthur Blvd. Oakland, CA Admission: Free Contact Info: The Place for Writers: 510-430-2236, mills.edu Contemporary Writers Series presents an evening with Tobago-born poet M. Nourbese Philip, She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks, winner of the Casa de [...]
Date & Time: Sun., March 27, 2011 @ 2:00-4:30 PM Location: Lodi Library, 201 West Locust Street, Lodi, CA Admission: Free Contact Info: www.astarrynightproductions.com/poetryseries/poetryseries.htm A Starry Night Poetry Series presents poet Jim Turner and poet and Young Adult novelist D.B. Pacini, plus open mic.
Date & Time: Tue., March 24, 2011 @ 1:00 PM Location: University Theatre, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA Admission: Free Contact Info: www.litart.org Center for Literary Arts Major Author Series presents a conversation with novelists E. L. Doctorow and Andrew Altschul.
Date & Time: Sun., March 27, 2011 @ 7:00 PM Location: Ecology Center Bookstore, 2530 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA Admission: $4-$8 Contact Info: 510-548-2220 x227, www.ecologycenter.org Unsilent Spring: Poetry for the Earth, the Seasons, & Justice, a reading by Sharon Doubiago, Drew Dellinger, Rafael Jesús González, Lucille Lang Day, and Kirk Lumpkin, open mic [...]
Date & Time: Tue., March 24, 2011 @ 8:00 PM Location: Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, CA Admission: Tickets Contact Info: 415-499-6800, www.ticketmaster.com Marin Organic and Book Passage present Michael Pollan, Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual and In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto.
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