“I want to believe!”—but should you? In this perilous time of deception, demagoguery, and suckers born every minute, The Fabulist has assembled a knockout lineup of Bay Area writers, poets, and activists who wield fantastical fictions to say true things about our beating human hearts—and who tell true tales to confront exploitative popular narratives.

Hosted by Bent Paddle, Zenith Bookstore, and the Boundary Waters Action Fund

Amy & Dave Freeman will share some tales of adventure from their new book, NORTH AMERICAN ODYSSEY. Books will be available to purchase. Discussion will focus on how environmental issues witnessed during the writing of the Freeman’s newest book have grown more urgent, and possible ways environmental decline can either be curtailed or perpetuated by elected officials at all levels. The importance of electing individuals who champion a sustainable future will be touched on by the writers.

Join us for a Left Margin Lit Poetry Reading featuring Rick Barot and Christian Gullette!

The Hive Live! presents an evening of poetry with Rick Barot and Cintia Santana.

Rick Barot appearing on Verse-Virtual, with Margo Bershevsky. Verse-Virtual is an online community and journal of poetry.

A free literary arts reading, this year’s annual Shadow Work Writers will feature an all star lineup of Seattle-region greats including: Rick Barot, Raúl Sánchez, Roberto Ascalon, Kiana Davis, Eli Hastings (co-host), Shaun Anthony McMichael (co-host).

21+, Drinks and Food available for purchase. After the reading, we will host an author meet & greet, book signing, etc.

Join us for the launch of poet Rick Barot’s collection of poems, Moving the Bones, on Saturday, November 9, at 144 Montague St and via Zoom! Doors will open for a wine reception for in-person guests at 6 PM and readings will begin at 7 PM. Victoria Chang and Brian Teare will open for Barot. Book signing to follow.

Zenith Bookstore is thrilled to host Chris La Tray who will present his powerful debut memoir Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home.

For the last installment of our fall Milkweed Presents series, we welcome poet RICK BAROT as we celebrate his latest book, Moving the Bones. He will be joined in reading and craft conversation with DANEZ SMITH.

ABOUT THE BOOKS

Moving the Bones is a vulnerable and honest collection of poems exploring lineage, love, and the pandemic, from one of the most acclaimed poets of his generation.

“You are told to believe in one paradise / and then there is the paradise you come to know,” begins Rick Barot. What follows is an account of the rich and thorny valley between those poles. Moving the Bones dwell…