Notable San Francisco

Wednesday 6/22: Tripwire: A Journal of Poetics presents a dream lineup featuring CA Conrad, Kevin Killian, Juliana Spahr, Marianne Morris, Lara Durback, and painter Yuh-Shioh Wong. Hosted by editor David Buuck.…

Wednesday 6/15: Katie Crouch (Girls in Trucks, Abroad) helps Gary Hendrix (Horrorstör) celebrate the release of his new book, My Best Friend’s Exorcism. Free, 7:30 p.m., Booksmith. MK Chavez hosts Lyrics…

Wednesday 6/8: Jon Sindell brings his popular west side reading series to the East Bay at the Octopus Literary Salon, featuring Peter Bullen, Sharon Coleman, Stephen D. Gutierrez, Hollie Hardy,…

Friday 6/3: Waiting for a ferry? Only got a few minutes? Check out the students from the San Francisco Grotto Writing Program offering three-minute readings by dozens of writers. Literary…

Wednesday 5/25: Vietnamese-American writer Andrew Lam (Birds of Paradise Lost) is the son of a South Vietnamese general who emigrated to the US after the fall of Saigon. Lam was…

Wednesday 5/18: Lyrics and Dirges presents long-time creative writing chair at SFSU Maxine Chernoff, along with Garrett Murphy, Lark Omura, Elizabeth Rosner, and Juan Velasco. Free, 7:30 p.m., Pegasus Books. Fenton…

Wednesday 5/11: Kate Tempest (The Bricks that Built the Houses) reads on the west side of town. Free, 7:30 p.m., Green Apple Books on the Park. Thursday 5/12: The Local Poets Series…

Wednesday 5/4: The program in Creative Writing at St. Mary’s presents faculty member Brenda Hillman with alumnus Andrew Kenower. Free, 7:30 p.m., St. Mary’s College. Green Apple Books hosts Speaking Volumes’…

Wednesday 4/27: Percival Everett, Brynn Saito, and Maxine Hong Kingston celebrate the release of Saito’s new collection of poetry (Power Made Us Swoon) from Red Wing Press. Talk about star power!…

Wednesday 4/20: National Book Award finalist Paolo Bacigalupi reads from The Water Knife, “a near-future thriller about climate change and drought in the southwestern United States.” Free, 7:30 p.m., Pegasus Books…

Wednesday 4/13: If the South Bay is foreign territory to you, tonight might be a good night to check out the Center for Literary Arts at San Jose State, where the…

Wednesday 4/6: UC Berkeley’s Holloway Reading series presents Anna Moschovakis. Free, 6:30 p.m., Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley. Memoirist Augusten Burroughs (Lust & Wonder) reads in the Castro. Free, 7 p.m., Books,…