Join us on May 22nd at Arc Gallery & Studios for the launch of Maya Salameh’s poetry collection Mermaid Theory with poets Adam Ahmed and Christine Huang.
Read MoreSamar will be hosting the sixth installment in their reading series with Kearny Street Workshop at Arc Gallery and Studios on Saturday, April 18th, at 7PM. Featured readers are Tala Khanmalek (mecca monarch), Dāshaun Washington, and David Gorin.
Read MoreJoin us for the launch of the IWL 2025 Anthology, “Channel”. Featuring our 2025 Interdisciplinary Writers Lab cohort!
Read MoreKearny Street Workshop invites you to join us for Assemblage, a poetry reading and artist talk in conjunction with 100 Nights of the Pandemic / 100 Days of Yearning
Read MoreKSW is hosting the fifth iteration of the Samar Reading Series on Friday, December 5th at 7 PM (No cover). We are all in for an incredible night of poetry and music this time! Featured artists include Adam Ahmed, Layle Omeran, and sam sax.
Read MoreAPAture 2025 Visual Arts Showcase is October 24th at Arc Gallery and Studios.
Read MoreJoin us on Tuesday, October 28 when we team up with Green Apple Books to celebrate Elaine Castillo and Jason Bayani's newest releases, Moderation and Everyone I Love, Alive, at Kearny Street Workshop!
Read MoreKSW is excited to host the fourth Samar Reading Series on Friday, July 25 at 7 PM with featured readers Raed Rafei, Zêdan Xelef, and Ebti.
Read MoreJoin us for the launch of the IWL 2024 Anthology, “A World, Undisciplined”. Featuring our 2024 Interdisciplinary Writers Lab cohort!
Read MoreJoin us on Sunday, May 25 for the Twin Windows Exhibit Reception as we celebrate this powerful new exhibition curated by Christine Wong Yap
Read MoreJoin us on May 17th as we welcome author, Sarah Aziza, who will be reading alongside local poets, Sam Sax and Zeina Hashem Beck
Read MoreJoin us as we celebrate the release of this new groundbreaking anthology published by Haymarket Books!
Read MoreThis special edition of KSW Presents is a gathering of community and healing featuring award winning poet, Diana Khoi Nguyen.
Read MoreKSW Presents is back and we’re bringing together Northern California Book Award winner Nathalie Khankan, author of quiet orient riot (Omnidawn, 2021) and Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship Award winner Tariq Luthun, author of How the Water Holds Me (Bull City Press, 2020).
Read MoreKSW Presents is back and we’re bringing together Sarah Ghazal Ali and Soham Patel. We’re celebrating the newest collections from both of these stunning poets Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024) and all one in the end—/water (Delete, 2023).
Read MoreKSW’s reading series returns with Jenny Odell and Cathy Park Hong at the Chinese Culture Center!
Read MoreKSW Presents Preeti Vangani and Jenny Qi in celebration of Preeti's latest book, Mother Tongue Apologize.
Read MoreHold tight! Our next reading will be announced, shortly.
Read MoreOn Saturday, June 13, as part of API Cultural Center of San Francisco's United States of Asian America Festival, KSW Presents Aria Aber, author of Hard Damages (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), and Monica Sok, author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press. 2020). Award-winning poets and children of refugees, their books explore the impact of inherited wars—Aber, through interrogating historical and personal implications of Afghan American relations, and Sok, through myth- and memory-making of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge regime.
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