Upcoming Events

discussing her new book American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland published by Graywolf Press This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. ---------- Event is free, but registration is required. (CLICK HERE) to register. For over one…

Please join Tongo Eisen-Martin, San Francisco’s 8th Poet Laureate, and family for an evening of poetry and exposition on the revolutionary potentials of art; as beautifully no incarnation of craft exists outside of the movements, renaissances; the people who pass us through. Featuring: Marc Bamuthi Joseph Biko Eisen-Martin Mahogany Browne Jive Poetic Joyce Lee Eisen-Martin was appointed as San Francisco’s 8th Poet Laureate in January 2021 by Mayor London N. Breed. Eisen-Martin is a poet and the founder of Black…

Thursdays in April are for National Poetry Month! Join us on our YouTube page, April 22 at 4pm for live readings from Ann Keniston, Kate Fennimore, and Courtney Cliften; hosted by Shaun Griffin. Ann Keniston is the author of several poetry collections, including Somatic (Terrapin, 2020), and coeditor of The New American Poetry of Engagement: A 21st Century Anthology (McFarland 2012). Her poems have appeared in Yale Review, Gettysburg Review, Literary Imagination, and elsewhere. She teaches at the University of Nevada, Reno. Kate Fennimore is currently in the MFA program at the…

reading from her new fiction collection Are You Enjoying? published by Alfred Knopf This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. ---------- Event is free, but registration is required. (CLICK HERE) to register. An exhilarating debut by a young writer…

celebrating the book launch of ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines, published by City Lights Books. Sesshu & Arturo will be in conversation with their fellow City Lights author Carribean Fragoza! Event is free, but registration is required. (Click Here) to register.  

Join us on Saturday, April 24, all day, for Independent Bookstore Day, 2021! Independent Bookstore Day is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April. Wear your mask and arrive early for your chance at exclusive day-of merchandise created especially for Independent Bookstore Day by major publishers and authors. Since its inception in 2014, more than 200 authors have demonstrated their support for independent bookstores by donating work for…

Carribean Fragoza celebrates the launch of her new book Eat the Mouth That Feeds You, published by City Lights Books. She'll be in conversation with novelist Héctor Tobar. Event is free, but registration is required. (CLICK HERE) to register.