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City Lights Readings and Events
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Our weekly reading series at the bookstore features new authors from across the publishing world. Across the nation, our authors are constantly on tour. Below are short listings for both events at the store, and authors on the road. For more information, click onto the event title.
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Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics 40th Anniversary Party
City Lights Bookstore. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Sunday, April 20, 2014, 5:00 p.m.
join City Lights and JKS faculty and friends in an afternoon celebration
Sixteen Rivers Press @ City Lights
City Lights Bookstore. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, April 22, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
with poetry readings by Beverly Burch & Murray Silverstein
An evening with Tony Serra
City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94133
Thursday, April 24, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
celebrating the release of
Tony Serra: The Green, Yellow and Purple Years in the Life of a Radical Lawyer from Grizzly Peak Press
Poets in Resistance to Eviction and Removal
International Hotel, Manilatown Center, 868 Kearny Street, San Francisco, 94133
Friday, April 25th, 2014, 6-9pm
Local poets and activists in an evening of poetry and education
with Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguia, Caroline Calderon, Jack Hirschman , Alan Kaufman, Jenny Lim, and others
Tess Taylor and DA Powell
City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Monday, April 28, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
City Lights in conjunction with Zyzzyva present an evening of poetry
Hosted by Oscar Villalon, Managing Editor, Zyzzyva
Kate Gale, Douglas Kearney, and Peggy Shumaker
City Lights Bookstore. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Monday, May 5, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
Reading from new poetry books
Fridays at Enrico's
Don Carpenter
Fridays @ Enrico's: A Tribute to Don Carpenter
The Book Club of California, 312 Sutter Street, Suite 500 (cross street Grant) San Francisco, CA 94108 Tuesday, May 6, 2014, 7:00 P.M. Admission Free, RSVP required
with Peter Coyote, Curt Gentry, Louis B. Jones, Anne Lamott, and Jane Vandenburgh
Hosted by Peter Maravelis/City Lights
ZYZZYVA's 100th Issue Celebration
California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street San Francisco CA 94105
Thursday, May 8, 2014, 6:30 P.M.
ZYZZYVA is thrilled to invite you to join them and City Lights in celebrating their landmark 100th issue!
with Michael Krasny, Daniel Handler, Po Bronson, Robert Hass and more.
Unstill Life
Gabrielle Selz
Gabrielle Selz
City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 94133 Thursday, May 15, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
discussing the release of her new memoir
Unstill Life: A Daughter's Memoir of Art and Love in the Age Of Abstraction
from W W Norton
Next Life Might Be Kinder
Howard Norman
Howard Norman
City Lights Bookstore. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Tuesday, May 20, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
reading from
Next Life Might Be Kinder
from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Chris Felver
City Lights Bookstore. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, May 22, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
American Jukebox
from University of Indiana Press
Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, and Kevin Moffett
City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 94133
Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
discussing their new novel
The Silent History
from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux
Peter Orlovsky, a Life in Words: Intimate Chronicles of a Beat Writer
City Lights Bookstore. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
with Bill Morgan, Joanne Kyger, and Michael McClure
Adam Wilson & Lucy Corin
City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 94133
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of Adam Wilson's new short story collection
What's Important Is Feeling
from Harper Perennial
Haiti Glass
Lenelle Moïse
Book Party for Lenelle Moïse
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
celebrating the release of
Haiti Glass
by Lenelle Moïse
The latest poetry collection in the City Lights/Sister Spit series, edited by Michelle Tea!
An evening with Scholastique Mukasonga
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, 261 Columbuis Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, September 18, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
with opening statements by Jill Schoolman (Archipelago Press)
celebrating the release of
Our Lady of the Nile
translated by Melanie Mauthner
published by Archipelago Press
Man Alive
Thomas Page McBee
Book Party for Thomas Page McBee
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Thursday, October 9th, 2014, 7:00pm
Celebrating the release of
Man Alive by Thomas Page McBee
The latest memoir in the City Lights/Sister Spit series, edited by Michelle Tea.
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