San Francisco Metro: Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · Literary & Spoken Word · 3 events · data version 20261021-173303
2:00 PM · Filipina/x Poetry + Poetics · Medicine for Nightmares (Mission) · workshop, literary · rating 7
medicinefornightmares.com · details Join us for a very special afternoon writing workshop Filipina/x Poetry+Poetics#PinayLit hosted by Barbara Jane Reyes.
We will read poems written by Filipina/X poets in the Philippines and in diaspora. Let’s talk about these poems, their language, their forms, their social and political issues. Let’s think about power and patriarchy, subversion of power and patriarchy. Let’s write some poems of our own.
Barbara Jane Reyes is a longtime Bay Area Pinay author and educator.
1:00 PM · Rite Life – A Writing Group Amongst the Dead · Santa Cruz MAH (Santa Cruz) · workshop, literary · rating 6
santacruzmah.org · details Rite Life is a workshop that blends the act of automatic writing, with our individual practices of ancestor veneration, to confront that which haunts us, and to celebrate that which allows us to live. The workshop was born in 2016 from the vision of a profound poet and spiritual teacher named Honeysun, just a couple of years before she passed beyond this life.
1:00 PM · Agatha Christie Mysteries: The Pale Horse · Santa Cruz Public Library (Santa Cruz) · Register · literary, workshop, livestream · rating 5
santacruzpl.libnet.info · details Join Agatha Christie and Charles Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of online discussions about four beloved works of crime fiction and their influence on the mystery genre.