Dreaming People’s History AAPI History Month Walking Tour
Join Kearny Street Workshop and the SF Arts Commission on Saturday, May 23 from 2–4PM for Dreaming People’s History, the second installation of the 2026 Art on Market Poster Series. This walking tour tells the story of the Asian American Movement, when radicals used art to recover past struggles and create a new political identity. Celebrate Asian American & Pacific Islander History Month with a walking tour of the poster series led by artist Colin Choy Kimzey and collaborator Jade Amargo Verdeflor. Learn about the community of San Francisco artists who helped define Asian America and take inspiration for how we can relate to the past in our own time.
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Mermaid Theory Reading & Book Launch
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.
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Save the Date! Samar Reading Series at KSW
Samar 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.
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Interdisciplinary Writers Lab 2025 Chapbook Launch
Join us for the launch of the IWL 2025 Anthology, “Channel”. Featuring our 2025 Interdisciplinary Writers Lab cohort!
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Assemblage: Poetry Reading & Artist Talk with Truong Tran & Friends
Kearny 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
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A Swana & Friends Literary Series with Adam Ahmed, Layle Omeran, and sam sax
KSW 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.
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APAture 2025 Visual Arts Closing Reception
APAture 2025 Visual Arts Showcase is October 24th at Arc Gallery and Studios.
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KSW and Green Apple Books present Elaine Castillo and Jason Bayani
Join 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!
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Samar, a SWANA and friends literary series
KSW 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.
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Interdisciplinary Writers Lab 2024 Chapbook Launch Party
Join us for the launch of the IWL 2024 Anthology, “A World, Undisciplined”. Featuring our 2024 Interdisciplinary Writers Lab cohort!
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Twin Windows: Papercuts by Beatriz Vasquez and Xiaoqing Shi | Exhibit Reception
Join us on Sunday, May 25 for the Twin Windows Exhibit Reception as we celebrate this powerful new exhibition curated by Christine Wong Yap
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KSW Presents Sarah Aziza with Sam Sax and Zeina Hashem Beck
Join us on May 17th as we welcome author, Sarah Aziza, who will be reading alongside local poets, Sam Sax and Zeina Hashem Beck
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KSW Presents We the Gathered Heat Book Release Celebration
Join us as we celebrate the release of this new groundbreaking anthology published by Haymarket Books!
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KSW Presents Taking Root: Transforming Personal & Communal Grief
This special edition of KSW Presents is a gathering of community and healing featuring award winning poet, Diana Khoi Nguyen.
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KSW Presents Nathalie Khankan and Tariq Luthun
KSW 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).
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KSW Presents Sarah Ghazal Ali and Soham Patel
KSW 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).
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KSW and Chinese Culture Center present Jenny Odell and Cathy Park Hong
KSW’s reading series returns with Jenny Odell and Cathy Park Hong at the Chinese Culture Center!
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KSW Presents Preeti Vangani with Jenny Qi
KSW Presents Preeti Vangani and Jenny Qi in celebration of Preeti's latest book, Mother Tongue Apologize.
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KSW Presents
Hold tight! Our next reading will be announced, shortly.
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USAAF 2020 x KSW Presents : Aria Aber & Monica Sok
On 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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