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17 MARCH 2023 — friday

  • Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center presents a reading and conversation with poets, featuring Meliza Bañales, celebrating their new book, Root for the Underdog, joined by poets Angela Aguirre, Confessions of a Firework, Sean Hill, and Brian Sonia-Wallace, The Poetry of Strangers: What I Learned Traveling America with a Typewriter, facilitated by poet and filmmaker Jen Cheng, Shadow of Love, book signing to follow the reading, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, free, 8:00 pm PDT (RSVP to attend: www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html)
  • Medicine for Nightmares presents novelist TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter, celebrating his new book, Her Daughters, winner of the 2023 Michael Rubin Book Award from Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review, joined in a reading by writers London Pinkney and Lillian Giles, Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, and online via Zoom, free, 6:30-8:30 pm PDT (More information here: medicinefornightmares.com/events)

18 MARCH 2023 — saturday

  • Clarion Performing Arts Center presents its third Saturday poetry reading featuring poet and novelist John Curl, Rainbow Weather: Poems for Environmental Healing, and Mahnaz Badihain, poet, painter, and translator, open mic before and after featured poets, Clarion Performing Arts Center, 2 Waverly Place, San Francisco, $6 all-day parking, 1:00-3:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.theclarionsf.org/events/3rd-saturday-poetry-in-chinatown)
  • Medicine for Nightmares, with the Los Angeles Poetry Society Acid Verse Literary Journal, present the Acid Verse Tour del Bay Area, featuring poetry readings by Soledad Con Carne, Tauri, and Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo, with art by Montelongo and photography by artist cheezburgas, followed by an open mic reading, Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, and online via Zoom, free, 7:00-9:00 pm PDT (More information here: medicinefornightmares.com/events)

19 MARCH 2023 — sunday

  • Poetry Flash presents a reading and a conversation in poems by Meryl Natchez, Catwalk, and Dean Rader, Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry, in person, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, free, 3:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).

20 MARCH 2023 — monday

  • Green Apple Books on the Park features Dionne Irving reading from her story collection, The Islands, longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 pm PDT (More information here: greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-dionne-irving)

21 MARCH 2023 — tuesday

  • Cobalt Poets presents a poetry reading featuring Bryn Wickerd, with open mic to follow, online via Zoom, free, 7:30 pm PST (Register to attend: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
  • Green Apple Books presents Miah Jeffra, novelist and founder of Foglifter Press, celebrating their new book, American Gospel, in conversation with novelist Dr. Kai Harris, What the Fireflies Knew, longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-miah-jeffra-kai-harris)
  • City Lights Books presents novelist Robert Lopez, Kamby Bolongo Mean River, named one of the twenty-five most important books of the decade by HTML Giant, discussing his new book, Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure, in conversation with novelist Sarah Rose Etter, Tongue Party, online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)

22 MARCH 2023 — wednesday

  • The City of West Hollywood's WeHo Reads Series presents "Crafting Literary Legacies," an event celebrating Women's History Month and authors who center women in their stories, featuring novelist Natashia Deón, The Perishing, short fiction writer Toni Ann Johnson, Light Skin Gone to Waste, winner of the 2021 Flannery O'Connor Award, poet and novelist Malia Márquez, This Fierce Blood, and novelist Laura Warrell, Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm, online, free, 6:30 pm PDT (RSVP to attend: www.weho.org/community/arts-and-culture/literary-arts/weho-reads)
  • Skylight Books presents an evening of poetry featuring Angela Peñaredondo, nature felt but never apprehended, and Vickie Vertiz, Auto/Body, winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, with more special guests to be announced, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-angela-pe%C3%B1aredondo-nature-be-felt-vickie-vertiz-autobody)

23 MARCH 2023 — thursday

  • City Lights Books presents poet Charif Shanahan, Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Lambda Literary Award finalist, celebrating the publication of his new collection, Trace Evidence, in conversation with poet Solmaz Sharif, Look, finalist for the National Book Award, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, and online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)

24 MARCH 2023 — friday

  • The Living Room Reading Series presents a reading on the theme of Education, by Fred Dodsworth, Erin Mansur, James Siegel, and André Le Mont Wilson, The Living Room Salon, 395 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00pm PDT (Register to attend: event page
  • Beyond Baroque presents a reading and conversation with poets Mark Irwin, Joyful Orphan, Shimmer, and Elena Karina Byrne, If This Makes You Nervous, No Don't, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, 8:00-11:00 pm PDT (RSVP to attend: www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html)
  • 25 MARCH 2023 — saturday

    • The Ina Coolbrith Circle will hold a memorial service for its long-time president, poet Richard Angilly, who passed away December 17, 2022; the memorial will take the place of the monthly membership meeting, Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley, 1 Lawson Road, Kensington, 1:00-5:00 pm PDT
    • Beyond Baroque presents poet Carol V. Davis, Into the Arms of Pushkin: Poems of St. Petersburg, winner of the 2007 T.S. Eliot Prize, celebrating the launch of her fourth collection, Below Zero, an exploration of Siberia and borders, faith and doubt, home and belonging, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html)
    • Medicine for Nightmares presents poet Ernest Garai, reading from his new collection, Reverberating Voices, joined by San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin, Heaven Is All Goodbyes, California Book Award-winner; activist and poet Bernice Espinoza; and poet N'game Gray, Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, and online via Zoom, free, 6:00-8:00 pm PDT (More information here: medicinefornightmares.com/events)

    26 MARCH 2023 — sunday

    • Beyond Baroque celebrates the life of Doug Knotts (1943-2022), poet, performer, and former president of Beyond Baroque's Board of Trustees, author of several books including the poetry collection Small Dogs Bark Cartoons, with readings, performances, and remembrances by Quentin Ring, Janet Sager Knott, The Mighty Echoes, Peter Lownds, John Fleck, Phoebe MacAdams Ozuna, Laurel Ann Bogen, John Doe, Exene Cervenka, Richard Modiano, Jerry the Priest, Jerome Dunn, Nelson Gary, Alexa Hunter, Marsha de la Oh, Phil, Joe Culp, Andy Schwartz, Neal Taylor, Mike M Mollett, Michael Lane Bruner, and S.A. Griffin, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, free, 1:00-4:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html)
    • Medicine for Nightmares presents a chapbook jam, with featured Nomadic Press poets Rachelle Escamilla, Space Junk from the Heavenly Palace; Yeva Johnsonis, Analog Poet Blues; Antmenantmen Pimentel Mendoza, My Boyfriend Apocalypse; Kimberly Acevedo, Ryan Nakano, I Am Minor; Edward Gunawan, The Way Back; and Lourdes Figueroa, Ruidos = To Learn Speak, Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, free, 3:00-5:00 pm PDT (More information here: medicinefornightmares.com/events)
    • The Village Poets of Sunland-Tujunga presents a reading with featured poets Toti O'Brien, Alter Alter, Pages of a Broken Diary, and Linda Dove, Fearn, with two open mic sessions, Bolton Hall Museum, 10110 Commerce Avenue, Tujunga, Los Angeles, suggested donation $5, 4:30 pm PDT (More information here: villagepoets.blogspot.com)

    27 MARCH 2023 — monday

    28 MARCH 2023 — tuesday

    • Cobalt Poets presents a poetry reading featuring Derek Brown, with open mic to follow, online via Zoom, free, 7:30 pm PST (Register to attend: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
    • City Lights Books presents novelist Belén Gopegui, La escala de los mapas [The Scale of Maps], discussing her new book, Stay This Day and Night with Me, in conversation with Mark Schafer, translator of the book, online via Zoom, free, Noon PDT (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)
    • Medicine for Nightmares presents translator and poet Dong Li, reading and discussing his debut collection, The Orange Tree, in conversation with poet Forrest Gander, Be With, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, and online via Zoom, free, 7:00-8:30 pm PDT (More information here: medicinefornightmares.com/events)

    29 MARCH 2023 — wednesday

    30 MARCH 2023 — thursday

    • The Breakroom Poetry Mic presents an open-mic hosted by Jason Bayani, Hieu Mihn Nguyen, and sam sax, Gilman Brewing Company, 912 Gilman Street, Berkeley, free, 7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: gilmanbrew.com/event-type/show)
    • A night of poetry in collaboration with the show Hechizos, with featured artist and poet Leticia Hernández-Linares, Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl, joining Leticia to read are poets Flavia Mora, Anna Rodas, Entre cenizas y palmas, Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, first Poet Laureate of Oakland, and Yaccaira Salvatierra, Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, free, 7:00-8:30 pm PDT (More information here: medicinefornightmares.com/events)
    • City Lights Books presents novelist and critic Yxta Maya Murray, Art Is Everything, celebrating her new book, God Went Like That, about the environmental damage caused by the Simi Valley nuclear power accidents, in conversation with writer and performer Jocelyn Saidenberg, Kith & Kin, online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)

    31 MARCH 2023 — friday

    • Green Apple Books presents poet Monica Youn, Ignatz, finalist for the National Book Award, reading from and discussing her new book, From From, in conversation with poet Solmaz Sharif, Look, finalist for the National Book Award, Green Apple Books, 1231 9th Aveue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-monica-youn-solmaz-sharif)

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