Meet the authors of new books and hear poets and other literary lights read their work.
Read full descriptionIn conversation with Leigh Raiford, Julia Bryan-Wilson introduces her new book, Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face (Yale University Press, 2023), a radical rethinking of the art of renowned sculptor Louise Nevelson (1899–1988).
Join us in celebrating the publication of At Third and Mission: A Life Among Artists, a memoir by longtime Bay Area museum curator Renny Pritikin. Pritikin will read from his new book and converse with East Bay poet Brandon Brown. Copies of Pritikin’s book will be available for purchase and signing by the author immediately following the event.
Join us for a poetry reading with Hieu Minh Nguyen, Sam Sax, and D. A. Powell!
Programmed by Thea Matthews
Join us for a poetry reading with Ashia Ajani and Nia McAllister, plus an open mic!
Programmed by Thea Matthews
Berkeley Poetry Festival presents its 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award to Jewelle Gomez
To mark the opening of Alexandre Dumas’s Afro: Blackness Caricatured, Erased, and Back Again, which she guest curated together with Vanessa Jackson, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby introduces her new book, Creole, with a presentation designed to frame and contextualize the exhibition.
Artist and author George McCalman introduces his new book, Illustrated Black History, which reimagines our idea of Black history with a series of vivid portraits of 145 Black pioneers throughout America’s four-hundred-year history. Each is celebrated with a painting or drawing accompanied by a brief biography of their contribution to activism, science, politics, business, medicine, technology, food, entertainment, or the arts.