Drop in throughout the day and mix together cool art materials with poetic fragments inside clear-sided diorama boxes. Watch as a literary terrarium forms before your eyes.

All ages welcome!

Drop in during the day to listen to classic spooky poetry, make a monster mask, and write a spell or incantation on “ancient” paper.

All ages welcome!

Join us for an exploration into the lost art of letter writing. Pen postcard prompts and letter lead-ins to create a mailable gift you will send to a friend at the end of the workshop.

Recommended for middle schoolers.

Karen Benke is the celebrated author of Sister, Rip the Page!, and Leap Write In!. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, with her teenage son, a magic cat named Clive, and a rescue dog.

Cast your imagination skyward with this poetry and kite-building workshop. Participants will personalize their high-flying creations by marking them with poems inspired by the images and metaphors of traditional Chinese poetry.

All ages welcome!

Miriam Nichols’s expertly edited The Astonishment Tapes (2015), a transcript of twenty autobiographical audiotapes recorded in an attic room in Vancouver by poet Robin Blaser in 1974. Thirty years prior, Blaser, along with Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer, formed the Berkeley core of what is now known as the San Francisco Renaissance. Reminiscent of the perfect mix attained by Blaser’s legendary martinis, this talk by Nichols blends gossip and literary legacy into a balanced representation of this mythic poet.

Readings at 6:30pm and 7:30pm
Poet and performance artist Rosamond S. King investigates what is instrumental for life today using her signature verse cabaret style, which includes poetry and self-arranged popular songs, within the setting of the Musical Instruments Permanent Collections galleries.