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Tobey Hiller

Tobey Hiller and Amy Glynn

1 OCTOBER 2020 — thursday

Poetry Flash presents a virtual poetry reading by Tobey Hiller, from her new book, Crow Mind, with Amy Glynn, A Modern Herbal, online via Zoom, free, 7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: please click here; you will receive an email with a link to join the reading)


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Please join us for a Poetry Flash virtual reading on Thursday, October 1 at 7:00 pm PDT! We are excited to bring you Tobey Hiller and Amy Glynn via Zoom. To register for this reading, please click here. After you register, you will receive an email with a link to join the reading.
Thank you for continuing to support Poetry Flash and our reading series during these unprecedented times.

Amy Glynn's debut poetry collection is A Modern Herbal. Mark Doty says, "Amy Glynn's high-energy herbarium glides through discourses botanical and mathematical, swerving elegantly from casual to erudite, lyrical to essayistic; here there's barely a border between the gorgeous speech of praise and the take-no-guff attitude of the undeceived." Her second collection, Romance Language, is forthcoming from Measure Press. Also an essayist, her work appears widely in journals and anthologies including Orion, The New England Review, and The Best American Poetry. Her honors include the SPUR Award from the Academy of Western Writers, Carolyn KIzer Award from Poetry Northwest, and Southwest Review's Morton Marr Prize. A James Merrill House Fellow, she served as inaugural Poet Laureate for the cities of Lafayette and Orinda, California.

Tobey Hiller's new poetry book is Crow Mind. Marsha de la O says, "…Tobey Hiller depolarizes human and animal, she plumbs the knowledge 'our tribes share.' In conjunction and relationship, crow becomes a beloved companion from another consciousness. The poet looks within and without, and sees crow—wary subject, lover, parent, and numinous child; crow as mythic presence, whose proverbs arise from neither heaven nor hell, but airy reaches and greeny shade." A poet and fiction writer, Tobey Hiller's previous poetry books include Crossings, Certain Weathers, Aqueduct, and a novel, Charlie's Exit. Her fiction collection, "Particle To Wave: A Fabulary." was named one of five finalists for Omnidawn's 2019 Fabulist Collection Contest. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in publications and anthologies, including Able Muse Review, Ambush Review, Askew, Canary, The Fabulist: Words & Art, Five Fingers Review, North Coast Literary Review, Sisyphus, Sin Fronteras, Spillway (forthcoming), Fire And Rain: Ecopoetry Of California, and more.




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4 OCTOBER 2025 — saturday

  • North Bay Letterpress Arts and ReVillage celebrate the power of the printed and spoken word at this one-day event featuring local vendors, food trucks, poetry readings, music, and the signature Steamroller Print Event, the festival brings together printmakers, poets, publishers, for a day of community and creativity, food trucks, handmade goods, local beer and wine, free, Graton Town Square, 9155 Graton Road, Graton, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm (www.northbayletterpressarts.org)

5 OCTOBER 2025 — sunday

  • Annual Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop with poet Sarah Kobrinsky, part of the Emeryville Celebration of the Arts, a month-long juried show with the work of artists who live and/or work in Emeryville; ekphrastic refers to literary works written in response to visual art; the poetry workshop will be followed by a reading on October 26, when a jazz group will inprov from poems written in the workshop in response to the art; poems will be written in response to the art in this year's Emeryville Celebration of the Arts show, free but spaces are limited, register on Eventbrite, Emeryville Celebration of the Arts, 5905 Shellmound Street, Public Market, Emeryville, 2:00-4:00 (www.eventbrite.com/e/ekphrastic-poetry-workshop-with-sarah-kobrinsky-2025-tickets-1685553779729?aff=oddtdtcreator)
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6 OCTOBER 2025 — monday

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8 OCTOBER 2025 — wednesday

  • Womb House Books presents Diana Arterian, reading from Agrippina the Younger, her collection of poems that reach into the past to try to understand the patriarchal systems of today, in conversation with poet J. Michael Martinez, Womb House Books, 470 49th Street, Oakland, free, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm (www.eventbrite.com/o/womb-house-books-79447203573)
  • City Arts and Lectures presents Daniel Handler discussing his new memoir, And Then? And Then? What Else?, which reflects on his childhood in San Francisco, the authors who shaped his voice, and the traumatic early-life experiences that have informed the way he moves through the world, in conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning author Andrew Sean Greer, The Story of a Marriage, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $49, 7:30 (www.cityarts.net/event/daniel-handler-5)

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16 OCTOBER 2025 — thursday

  • City Arts and Lectures presents acclaimed historian, The New Yorker staff writer, and Dean of Columbia Journalism Jelani Cobb reading from and discussing his newest book, Three or More is a Riot, a collection of narrative journalism, criticism, and penetrating profiles that capture the crisis, characters, movements, and art of an era, in conversation with john a. powell, Professor of Law and African American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, The Power of Bridging: How to Build a World Where We All Belong, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $49, 7:30 (www.cityarts.net/event/jelani-cobb-3)

17 OCTOBER 2025 — friday

18 OCTOBER 2025 — saturday

  • City Arts and Lectures presents Andrew Ross Sorkin, journalist for The New York Times and co-anchor of Squawk Box, CNBC's signature morning program, reading from and discussing his new book, 1929: The Inside Story of the Greatest Crash of Wall Street, a spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history, in conversation with CEO of Stripe Patrick Collison, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $64-$69, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)

19 OCTOBER 2025 — sunday

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  • City Arts and Lectures presents photographer Richard Misrach discusses his new book, Half-Baked Stories about My Dead Mom, photographs of cargo ships to and from the Port of Oakland, in conversation with award-winning author and historian Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $49, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)

24 OCTOBER 2025 — friday

  • Transit Books presents A Very Fine Fête, a fundraiser celebrating Transit's tenth anniversary, eat and drink among friends, enjoy Edward Gorey tarot readings, a book apothecary, special edition merch, a prize for best costume, and more, Edward Gorey-inspired dresswear encouraged: Edwardian costume, fur coats, top hats, fascinators, or something that's been calling in your closet, Cellar Maker Brewing Co., 940 Parker Street, Berkeley, $30-$10,000, 7:00-10:00 (www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/a-very-fine-fete)

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