All events are in our Mission location, 2831a Mission Street, unless otherwise specified
2025
Will we do more? Less? we’ll see <3
2024
December
Reading 12/6 7pm
“Dreams of an Impossible Princess”: Book Launch for Kevin Killian’s Selected Amazon Reviews presented by Semiotext(e)
Readings by David Buuck, Marcus Ewert, Kota Ezawa, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Randall Mann & London Pinkney and a conversation between Dodie Bellamy and Hedi El Kholti.
November
Reading 11/17 1:30pm
antiphony: a journal & press present Gillian Conoley, Alex Keramidas, Carrie Hunter & Ann Pedone
Reading 11/8 6pm
Reclaiming Artistic Research – book launch, reading and discussion with writer, curator, and artist Lucy Cotter
Reading 11/2 3pm
Sophia Dahlin and Small Press Traffic present a reading with participants of the Bay Area Poetry 1960-2020s Generative Workshop
October
Event 10/26
Lit Crawl - multiple readings throughout the afternoon and evening, more info soon.
Reading 10/23 7pm
Peter Cole, Forrest Gander, and Norma Cole
Release event 10/12 4-6pm
Visible Publications and Colpa Press present a release event for Matt Borruso's new publications — Hands and Feet and Their Supports and Print Shop.
Reading 10/5 7pm
Celebrating Susan Thackrey’s FARTHER, with Susan Thackrey, Evan Kennedy and Jason Morris reading
September
Release event 9/28 4:30pm
Simone Bailey presents "Surrender to the Savage," The Maroons' final 7" record: a reading from the publication + listening to a song from the record.
August
Release event 8/31 5-7pm
Land and Sea present a release event for Craig Steely - Make Believe
Reading 8/22 doors 6pm, reading 7pm
TURKOSLAVIA Issue 3 Launch.
Join us to celebrate the launch of issue 3 of TURKOSLAVIA, an online journal of literary translation from Turkic and Slavic languages. Editors Ena Selimović and Sabrina Jaszi and contributor Donohon Abdugafurova will read from their translations in the issue alongside projections of the graphic designs by Hanna Priemetzhofer that illustrate the issue.
July
Release event 7/19 6pm drinks, discussion at 7pm
Cybele Lyle’s new monograph Sense of Space (in 3 parts) published by Et al.,
$55; special unique works on paper also available for $500. Contact us for more info
Reading 7/11 7pm
HEADS TOGETHER: Weed and the Underground Press, 1965-1973 published by Edition Patrick Frey
Author David Jacob Kramer presents rare short film clips related to the underground press with commentary
June
Artist’s talk 6/28 6pm
Danielle Lawerence in conversation with Michael Hall
Reading 6/27 6-8pm
Esta Boca Es Mia Book Release
Lupita Limón Corrales, Leena Joshi, Christina Svenson, Tatiana Lubovski-Acosta
Celebration 6/22 6-9pm Posponed
Celebrate the launch of Bay Art Agenda.
Openings 6/7 5-8pm
Three solo shows: Ian James, J Rivera Pansa, Danielle Lawrence
Artist’s talk 6/1 1pm
Gay Outlaw will discuss her solo show alongside curator Theadora Walsh
Reading 6/1 4-6pm
Readings by the organizers of hundreds of readings: Elise Ficarra and Steve Dickison
And afterwards, The Cake Party (as Stacy Doris calls it) in honor of The Poetry Center
May
Reading 5/31 7pm
Small Press Traffic presents A Friendly Reading & Social
In conjunction with Gabrielle Civil’s five-part Where Would I Be Without You?, Gabrielle reached out to acclaimed Bay Area poets and asked them to share their work and invite a friend to read alongside them. soledad con carne invited hector son of hector, erica lewis invited Gillian Conoley, Truong Tran invited Damon Potter, and Gabrielle invited her longtime poetry pal Eric Leigh.
Reading 5/24 7pm
Release event for Sophie Appel’s ‘The World’s Largest Cherry’
with Appel, Jasmine Zhang, Cher Strauberry, Angie Sijun Lou, Scout Faller
Reading 5/11 6pm
The Ana: Yearbook 2023
Readings, zines for sale, and plenty of love
Reading 5/10 7pm
SPT presents a KRUPSKAYA release event for new Sledmere, Soong, & Ross books
April
Reading 4/16 7pm
Semiotext launch event for Constance Debré - Playboy
Talk 4/7 3pm
A conversation with Anthony Discenza, Ana Saygi, and Filip Kostic, moderated by Rhonda Holberton, about Discenza’s show Dæmonomania.
Playtest 4/6 4-6pm
Most Ancient present their Diatribes VR project
Reading 4/5 6pm
Ivanna Baranova release event for Continuum
With Tongo Eisen-Martin and Violet Spurlock
March
Music 3/20 7pm
Luke Schneider, Aux Meadows
Reading 3/15 6pm
Smooth Friends presents a book release for Carrie Hunter’s ‘All Gabled Roofs Will Fail’
With readings by Hunter, Laura Woltag, and Jacob Kahn
February
Reading 2/24 6pm
de la LLECA al COHUE: Fotografía en penitenciarías venezolanas
Violette Bule + Michel Otayek, eds.
Reading 2/23 6pm
Joanne McNeil presents WRONG WAY with Robin Sloan and Susie Cagle
A conversation about Joanne's new novel, WRONG WAY, and a critical discussion on the technology and labor transforming San Francisco streets.
Reading 2/15 7pm
An Evening of Nice: On David Melnick, with Benjamin Friedlander, J. Gordon Faylor, Jo Aurelio Giardini
Performance 2/1 7pm
Arrington de Dionyso, Chingiz Kam, Matt Robidoux, Christopher Robert Duncan
January
Opening 1/19, 5-8pm
Maybe it's about bodies?
Co-organized with BIBEAU KRUEGER
Fair 1/17 - 1/21
FOG Art Fair
Solo presentation of Laurie Reid’s painting and jewelry
Reading 1/5 6pm
meital yaniv reading from and discussing bloodlines: a prayer for Palestine
2023
December
Reading 12/16 5pm
Imani Mason Jordan, Grant Williams-Yackel, Sin Wai Kim, and Leila Weefur
Fair 12/5 - 12/9
NADA Miami
Iggy Capra, Minami Kobayashi, Tyler Garces Ormsby
Ice Palace Studios
Opening 12/1 5-8pm
Minami Kobayashi & Adrianne Rubenstein
(in side-space) Wayne Smith
2831a Mission
November
Reading 11/25 6pm
Use Me at Your Own Risk: Visions from the Darkest Timeline
Author Anuradha Vikram in conversation with Dorothy Santos
Reading 11/18 6pm
A reading in honor of Pamenar Press
Susan Gevirtz, Ghazal Mosadeq, Priscilla Wathington, Eleni Stecopoulos, Ariel Resnikoff
Music 11/17 7-11pm
HYDEFM Presents: Loveshadow Album Release Party
w/dj sets by Mishka, Josh Cheon, Jeremy Castillo
Wine served by Bar Part Time
Reading 11/3 7pm
KLEENEX/LiLiPUT book talk by editor Grace Ambrose
Opening 11/2 5-8pm
Resurgent Earth @ 620 Kearny
Kelsey Chen, Nicolai Dorka, Bhumikorn Kongtaveelert, Lauren Marshall
October
(postponed) Reading 10/24 7:30pm
Ivanna Baranova book launch with Violet Spurlock, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, Hans Wagner, Tongo Eisen-Martin
Reading/event 10-21 5-10pm
Lit Crawl: Organized by Lit Quake with Creativity Explored, Cuneiform Press, Club Chicxulub
Opening 10/20 6-10pm
The Stud Pin Archive & Ephemera
+ SF Book release event
Opening 10/20 6-10pm
a pattern of window frames
Group show curated by Saif Azzuz
September
Reading 9/29, 7pm
SPT Presents: Gonzales, Leung, Saidenberg
Gia Gonzales, Muriel Leung, Jocelyn Saidenberg
Reading 9/23, 6pm
Joanne McNeil presents WRONG WAY with Robin Sloan and Susie Cagle
Reading 9/22, 7pm
EPHEMERAL WORK: SF Mid-90’s
Camille Roy, Dean Ouellette, Jennifer Locke, DL Alvarez
Music 9/16, 7pm
Warm Spell, Ghost Dub
Light art by the 3rd Hand Collective
Reading 9/12, 7pm
I Love Information Book Launch & Reading
Courtney Bush, Violet Spurlock, Alli Warren, Scout Faller
Reading 9/10, 5pm
Roof Books Group Reading
Bob Glück, Elizabeth Robinson, Brian Kim Stefans
Opening 9/10 2-5pm
Andrew Sung Taek Ingersoll
Breathing House @ 620 Kearny (both floors)
Openings 9/9 5-8pm
Will Yackulic solo; group show of work by artists from NIAD
Music 9/8 8:00pm
Ceremonial Abyss, Nihar, plus djs Matt Sussman & Tyrel Williams
$10-20 suggested donation