Friday, October 23, 2026, 1:00 AM - 4:00 AM ยท City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, North Beach, San Francisco
Poet and memoirist Truong Tran reads from his memoir How to Exi(s)t and joins SCU English Professor KB Brookins for a conversation. The event is free and open to the public at the De Saisset Museum Auditorium in Santa Clara.
Three-floor independent bookstore at the corner of Columbus and Jack Kerouac Alley that doubles as a publisher, the press launched the Pocket Poets Series in the fifties and has been printing books from the same address ever since. The poetry room on the upper floor is the reason most people make the climb; the ground floor runs the full range from biography to Beat literature to local zines. Open late, every day.