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CANCELED “A border, like race, is a cruel fiction”: Mazza Writer in Residence for Spring 2020, Wendy Trevino, with special guest Zaina Alsous, April 23–24

CANCELED Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman: A celebration on his 95th birthday—poetry and jazz, at McRoskey Mattress Co., Saturday April 18

CANCELED Legacy of Forugh Farrokhzad, presented with the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, Thursday April 2

Video stills from Pat Parker and Audre Lorde: February 7, 1986 at The Women’s Building in San Francisco

CANCELED “I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing”—Poetry and Protest: A day in honor of Audre Lorde & Pat Parker, Thursday March 19

Upcoming Events

CANCELED Poetry Center Book Award Reading: Ashley Toliver and Jason Bayani, reading and in conversation

Thursday, April 9 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University

CANCELED Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman: A celebration on his 95th birthday—poetry and jazz, at McRoskey Mattress Co.

Saturday, April 18 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
McRoskey Mattress Co., 3rd floor, 1687 Market Street (at Gough), San Francisco

CANCELED Mazza Writer in Residence Wendy Trevino, with Zaina Alsous, reading and in conversation

Thursday, April 23 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University

CANCELED Zaina Alsous and Wendy Trevino, Mazza Writer in Residence, reading from their work

Friday, April 24 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue (at Dwight Way), Berkeley

CANCELED In Common Writers Series: John Yau and Andrew Joron, reading and in conversation

Thursday, May 7 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University

CANCELED In Common Writers Series: John Yau and Claudia La Rocco, reading and in conversation

Friday, May 8 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Pro Arts Gallery & Commons, 150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza (12th St. BART), Oakland

Recent Events

CANCELED Legacy of Forugh Farrokhzad: with Sholeh Wolpé, Jasmin Darznik, and Shabnam Piryaei—poetry, fiction, film, and conversation

CANCELED “I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing”—Poetry and Protest: a day in honor of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker (Part Two): with Arisa White, Leila Weefur, and Angela Hume

CANCELED “I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing”—Poetry and Protest: a day in honor of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker (Part One): with Judy Grahn, Jewelle Gomez, and Avotcja

CANCELED In Common Writers Series: Dodie Bellamy and Prageeta Sharma, reading from their works

CANCELED In Common Writers Series: Prageeta Sharma and Dodie Bellamy, reading and in conversation

VIDEO + AUDIO A celebration of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen, Thi Bui, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, She Who Has No Master(s), and Danny Nguyen

VIDEO + AUDIO Kelsey St. Press 45th Anniversary Celebration: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Ching-In Chen, Andrea Abi-Karam, at McRoskey Mattress Co.

VIDEO + AUDIO Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Cardboard House Press/Cartonera Collective: Giancarlo Huapaya, Omar Pimienta, José Antonio Villarán at The Green Arcade

NO VIDEO Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Cartonera Collective in San Francisco, a bookmaking workshop

VIDEO + AUDIO Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Cardboard House Press/Cartonera Collective: Giancarlo Huapaya, Omar Pimienta, José Antonio Villarán

VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Tim Z. Hernandez, Marguerite Muñoz, and René Juarez-Vazquez, reading at Voz Sin Tinta

VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Tim Z. Hernandez, reading and in conversation with Marguerite Muñoz and René Juarez-Vazquez

VIDEO + AUDIO Mazza Writer in Residence Juliana Delgado Lopera with Joseph Cassara, reading and in conversation

VIDEO + AUDIO Mazza Writer in Residence Juliana Delgado Lopera with Monique Jenkinson, aka Fauxnique, an afternoon of literary drag, at The Bindery

VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, reading at University Press Books

VIDEO + AUDIO Black Study Series: Frank B. Wilderson III and D.S. Marriott, reading from their poetry at The Green Arcade

VIDEO + AUDIO M. NourbeSe Philip, reading and in conversation: the Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series, at McRoskey Mattress Co.

VIDEO + AUDIO Steven Seidenberg and Jared Stanley, reading and in conversation

VIDEO + AUDIO Mazza Writer in Residence Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, in collaboration with Kyle Parker at The Green Arcade

VIDEO + AUDIO Mazza Writer in Residence Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta with special guest Daisy Zamora, reading and in conversation

VIDEO + AUDIO “I have decided to wholeheartedly consecrate myself to my art” —Mazza Writer in Residence, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta

VIDEO + AUDIO Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Antena: a language justice and language experimentation collaborative, Jen Hofer and John Pluecker

VIDEO + AUDIO Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: John Pluecker and Jen Hofer, reading from their poetry at E. M. Wolfman Bookstore

VIDEO + AUDIO James Kass and Paul S. Flores: a reading & performance celebrating 21 years by two founders of Youth Speaks

VIDEO + AUDIO Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism, with Lily Hoang, A Bestiary, a reading and book party at The Green Arcade

VIDEO + AUDIO Asya Abdrahman, Faith Adiele, Tonya M. Foster: Navigating Space for Women, at Museum of the African American Diaspora

VIDEO + AUDIO Frances Richard, The George Oppen Memorial Lecture: "The Mind's Own Place and Feminine Technologies: George Oppen and Possibilities of the Political," at Unitarian Center

VIDEO + AUDIO Working With Others: Convivial Research (Revisited), Manolo Callahan, Stefano Harney, and Tonika Sealey Thompson, at the Howard Zinn Book Fair

VIDEO + AUDIO Florencia Castellano, Luis Felipe Fabre, Pablo Katchadjian, Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal, the Señal chapbook series, at Artists' Television Access

VIDEO + AUDIO For Franco Beltrametti: with Joanne Kyger, Duncan McNaughton, Donald Guravich, Maggie Brown, Jim Nisbet, Judy Goldhaft, Stefan Hyner, at The Green Arcade

VIDEO + AUDIO Stefan Hyner: “This Other World Not Civilized,” a reading and talk with Lao Tzu, T’ao Yüan Ming, Li T’ai Po

VIDEO + AUDIO Roberto Tejada, The George Oppen Memorial Lecture: "Assault on the Quiet Continent: Oppen in Mexico," at Unitarian Center

VIDEO + AUDIO Adjunct Action | Poets in Action: Jessica Beard, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, David Buuck, Stephanie Young, at Howard Zinn Book Fair

VIDEO + AUDIO Poet | Artist | Activist: Let’s Make A Plan: Christopher Higgenbotham, Christian Nagler, Cassie Thornton, at the Labor Archives and Research Center

VIDEO + AUDIO John Keene, Counternarratives: reading and in conversation with Tân Khánh Cao, at Green Apple Books on the Park

VIDEO + AUDIO John Keene, Counternarratives: Prose at The Poetry Center

VIDEO + AUDIO Tonya M. Foster and David Buuck, reading and in conversation

VIDEO + AUDIO Lucia Berlin's A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories, a reading with Stephen Emerson, Gloria Frym, August Kleinzahler, and Mimi Pond, at the Maude Fife Room, UC Berkeley

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