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Poetry and nonfiction books + events deeply rooted in local community, space, and place.
Headquartered in Uptown Oakland’s @nomadicbookshop 🏡

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Because We Need Each Other: A Zine, Perspective, & Practice is available now as a digital download and a print booklet from @nomadicpress.

Written by @kazu_haga, @shilpaminajain, @ccccsealia, and @e_sassnyc, illustrated and laid out by @cattailscomix, the zine provides a perspective on how we can move through conflict generatively, deepen relationships, and strengthen our movements, even in times of intensity and strain. by @nomadicpress

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🔖 OAKLAND: come join us 9/16 at 6 PM at @nomadicbookshop for the launch of the paper version of 𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘞𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘌𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳: a zine about how "cancel culture" shows up in our movement cultures...and how to prevent it from derailing our work. We'll be joined by coauthors @kazu_haga and Shilpa Jain, as well as zine illustrator @cattailscomix, to talk about the project and why it's important for organizers in 2026.

Check the link in our bio to register and reserve your spot!

#oakland #events #booklaunch #zines taken in Nomadic Bookshop by @nomadicpress

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Join us on Friday, September 4, from 6–8 PM at Nomadic Bookshop for a memorial reading celebrating the life of Susana Praver-Pérez. The evening will include a small number of planned readings, followed by an open mic for those who wish to share a memory, reflection, or words in honor of Susana. We will also create a temporary altar in Susana’s honor. You are welcome to bring flowers, photographs, or small objects of remembrance to add to it. Please join us as we gather in love, grief, and gratitude to honor Susana’s life, work, and the lasting mark she made on all who knew her. by @nomadicpress

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We are heartbroken to learn that @la.doctora.susana Susana Praver-Perez, beloved Nomadic Press author, poet, teacher, and friend, has joined the ancestors.

Susana’s work carried immense tenderness, precision, and courage. In Hurricanes, Love Affairs, and Other Disasters, she gave us poems that moved through love, memory, family, migration, grief, and survival with a voice at once intimate, heart-centered, and expansive. We had many warm phone calls together about a new collection she was working on that would eventually become Return Against the Flow.

We are deeply grateful and honored to have been part of Susana’s literary journey and to have published her work. She was also a friend. Her writing will continue to meet readers with its warmth, clarity, humor, and hard-won wisdom.

Our hearts are with Susana’s loved ones, friends, students, fellow writers, and all who were moved by her presence and her poetry.

Rest in power, Susana. Your words remain with us.

We will be organizing a memorial gathering on Friday, 09/04, at @nomadicbookshop . More info to come.

#SusanaPraverPerez #NomadicPress #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #RememberingSusanaPraverPerez HurricanesLoveAffairsAndOtherDisasters by @nomadicpress

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WE ARE BACK with another night of Oakland poetry!

Come through and grab a book from @nomadicbookshop

Or write a poem to spit on the mic

Sign ups for the slam at 4:45

Show starts at 5:00

See you there!

Ticket links in bio

#oaklandslam #poetryslam #spokenword #nomadicpress #richoakevents by @nomadicpress

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Oakland arts and culture deserve stable funding.

When the Coliseum sale finalizes, Oakland will receive a new recurring revenue stream from the deal: 6% of ticket sales from the arena and stadium. City staff estimate that could bring in roughly $3 million every year.

That money should go back to the people who make Oakland Oakland.

This is a real opportunity to create dedicated, long-term funding for artists, youth arts programs, cultural workers, neighborhood-based arts organizations, festivals, public art, and the creative communities that carry this city’s history, spirit, and future.

Oakland cannot keep celebrating culture while cutting the people and programs that create it.

Tell City Council: dedicate the 6% Coliseum ticket-revenue share to Oakland arts and culture.

We need to restore local cultural funding, protect staff capacity, and invest in Oakland’s creative future.

Show up and speak out:
Oakland City Council Meeting
Tuesday, July 21
3:00 PM
Oakland City Hall
Enter off 14th Street

Submit e-comment today by 3:30 PM:
tinyurl.com/July22Arts

Artists, organizers, cultural workers, youth advocates, and Oakland residents — this is the moment to make our voices heard.

Fund the arts. Protect Oakland culture. Invest in the people who make this city powerful.

#OaklandArts #FundTheArts #OaklandCulture #ArtsActionAlert #OaklandCityCouncil #InvestInArtists #ProtectOaklandCulture #YouthArts #CommunityArts #CreativeOakland by @nomadicpress

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Please mark your calendars & join us for a special evening of three bands Kapha & Its Kind, SPRINGTWIN & We Are Leaves performing at @nomadicbookshop in Oakland on Saturday, August 8th at 7pm. Doors open at 6:30pm. All three bands incorporate poetry into their music & music into their poetry. Free! (Be sure to RSVP at link in comments)
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Kapha & Its Kind

Based in El Cerrito, Kapha & Its Kind includes Dan Plonsey on saxophone, Thomas Scandura on percussion, and Maw Shein Win on the mic.

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https://www.thomasscandura.com
http://www.danplonsey.com/plonsey/
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SPRINGTWIN

Formed in spring of 2026, SPRINGTWIN features Danny Allen on guitar and Maw Shein Win’s poetry.

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https://dannyallenmusic.bandcamp.com/track/hush-baby
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We Are Leaves

We Are Leaves is a band from the East Bay, composed of Matthew Zapruder, Supina Mapon, and Peter Jaeschke. They play their own songs and sometimes songs of others, using guitar, voice, bass, violin, and at times, various forms of percussion.

https://weareleaves.bandcamp.com/track/letter-to-a-photograph
https://matthewzapruder.com
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#kaphaanditskind #SPRINGTWIN #weareleaves #musicandpoetry #poetryandmusic #nomadicbookshop taken in Nomadic Bookshop by @nomadicpress

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Drop your SFF book rec here! ⏬️

Come browse! taken in Nomadic Bookshop by @nomadicpress

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Pause the video, let the universe choose your next read, and tell us what you got. ✨ taken in Nomadic Bookshop by @nomadicpress

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🚨 the entire Dungeon Crawler Carl series has invaded our shelves 🚨
7 books of chaos, monsters, capitalism, talking cats, and one man trying really hard not to lose it.
your next unhealthy reading obsession just dropped. taken in Nomadic Bookshop by @nomadicpress

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✨ Ways to support your local bookshop (aka your new favorite habit). ✨ taken in Nomadic Bookshop by @nomadicpress

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6 months ago

May’s looking cute… and a little chaotic (in a good way).

We’ve got a bunch of events coming up—readings, hangs, workshops, all that.
Pull up, bring a friend, or come solo and vibe with us.

Check out our website for more details! taken in Nomadic Bookshop by @nomadicpress

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