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3 APRIL 2025 — thursday

• Literary Salon at Red Hen Press features novelist Nancy Kricorian, The Burning Heart of the World, whose fiction is based on post-genocide Armenian diaspora experiences, Lory Bedikian, Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body, winner of the 2023 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, and Arthur Kayzakian, The Book of Redacted Paintings, winner of the 2021 Black Lawrence Press Immigrant Writing Series, Red Hen Press, 1540 Lincoln Avenue, Pasadena, reception with refreshments, 5:30 pm PDT, program at 6:15 pm PDT (For more information and to RSVP, visit: redhen.org/event-calendar/literarysalon-april2025)
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• Lunch Poems, a monthly poetry reading, presents Geffrey Davis, One Wild Word Away, University of California Berkeley, Morrison Library, 101 Library Court, Berkeley, free, Noon PST (For more information, visit: www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/lunch-poems)
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4 APRIL 2025 — friday

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5 APRIL 2025 — saturday

• Poet and activist-scholar Nat Raha, apparitions (nines), visiting from Edinburgh, Scotland, in conversation with Bay Area poet Willa Smart, Switch Wish, the authors will present readings of recent work before joining in conversation about trans writing and life, Et al., 2831a Mission Street, San Francisco, 6:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.smallpresstraffic.org/event/nat-raha-willa-smart)
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6 APRIL 2025 — sunday

• Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading to celebrate the Sixteen Rivers Press featured titles for 2025, Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong, the department of peace, Patrick Cahill, If we are the forest the animals dream, Moira Magneson, In the Eye of the Elephant, and Terry Ehret and Nancy J. Morales, award-winning co-translators of Plagios/Plagiarisms, Volume III, poems by Ulalume González de León, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).
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7 APRIL 2025 — monday

• Poet and member of the Suquamish Nation Cedar Sigo, All This Time, presents his new poetry collection, Siren of Atlantis, City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/cedar-sigo)
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8 APRIL 2025 — tuesday

• Researcher Cat Bohannon discusses her debut book, Eve, exploring the specific science behind the development of the female sex, with journalist-in-residence Angie Coiro, Kepler's Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.keplers.org/upcoming-events-internal/tin-cat-bohannon)
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• Nat Raha, poet, activist scholar, and lecturer at Glasgow School of Art, and Mijke van der Drift, tutor at the Royal College of Art, London, discuss their new book, Trans Femme Futures : An Abolitionist Ethic for Transfeminist Worlds, City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/exploring-trans-femme-futures-nat-raha-and-mijke-van-der-drift)
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9 APRIL 2025 — wednesday

• Saint Mary's College of California Visiting Writers Series welcomes poet Danusha Laméris, Blade by Blade, in conversation, De La Salle Hall, Hagerty Lounge, 1928 St Mary's Road, Moraga, free, 2:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.stmarys-ca.edu/graduate-professional-studies/mfa-creative-writing)
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10 APRIL 2025 — thursday

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11 APRIL 2025 — friday

• Walton Well Press celebrates the release of two new poetry collections: Karen Kevorkian's Here In My Body It Feels Crowded, and Born In A Barn On Venus, a collaborative book by poet Gail Wronsky and artist Gronk, the authors will read from their new collections in The Wanda Coleman Theater accompanied by Logan Metz, former band member of Lukas Nelson's group, Promise of the Real, and L.A. based musician Lincoln Mendell, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, Los Angeles, $12, 8:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/walton-well-press-double-book-launch-karen-kevorkian-gail-wronsky-gronk-tickets-1281142956069?aff=oddtdtcreator)
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12 APRIL 2025 — saturday

• The ninth annual Sierra Poetry Festival, "Where Hope and History Rhyme," is an international festival marking National Poetry Month from the foothills of California's Gold Country to the High Sierra, celebrating the spoken word with readings, workshops, a literary fair, and youth performances, preceded by a month of pre-festival pop-up poetry events throughout the community; the Festival mainstage will feature Keynote address, "Hope, Uncertainty, and Creativity Notes on Living and Writing," by acclaimed poet and fiction writer Kim Addonizio, Exit Opera, with guitarist Danny Caron; morning readings by Anthony Cody, Borderland Apocrypha, Brynn Saito, Under a Future Sky, and writer, editor, and writing coach Karen Terry; Morning Workshops, "The Archival Self," with Anthony Cody, "Ancestral Poetics," with Brynn Saito, and "Responding to Current Events with Poems of History and Hope," with Karen Terrey; Open Mic Winners presented by zsa'lai; Poetry Out Loud with student finalists; "Putting the Punk Back in Poetry," with Joey Henry, Nevada County Youth Laureate; "A Conversation with poet and scholar Annie Finch, A Poet's Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry and Calendars and Eve, poet Randall Mann, Deal: New and Selected Poems,, and classicist and translator Christopher Childers, moderated by Maxima Kahn; Afternoon readings with Cloudy Rhodes Carrier, Judy Crowe, Iranian-raised poet and translator from the Persian, Armen Davoudian, The Palace of Forty Pillars, and Mai Der Vang, Yellow Rain, Northern California Book Award-winner, Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and American Book Award-winner; Workshops: "Joining Poetry's Dances: Explorations in the Magic of Meter," with Annie Finch, "The Sound of Sound," with essayist and fiction writer Sands Hall; a selection of literary organizations will exhibit, Poetry Flash plans to be there; The Center for the Arts, 314 W. Main Street, Grass Valley, a full pass for workshops and readings is $45, purchase online; general admission $20-$45, free for students, Military, Veterans, and Gold Star families, 8:30 am-5:00 pm PDT (More information and tickets here: www.sierrapoetryfestival.org)
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• Angel City Review's Ten Years of Poetry in L.A. anthology brings together forty-four Los Angeles-based and connected poets that have contributed to the journal over the past decade, serving both as a best of poetry collection as well as a focused survey of the city's poetry in the last decade; contributors to the anthology will read their texts in The Wanda Coleman Theater, including Sesshu Foster, Teka Lark, Douglas Manuel, Marcus Clayton, and Lizeth De La Luz, hosted by Managing Editor Zachary C. Jensen, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Boulevard, Venice, Los Angeles, $12, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-angel-city-review-ten-years-of-poetry-in-la-tickets-1285207723899?aff=oddtdtcreator)
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13 APRIL 2025 — sunday

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14 APRIL 2025 — monday

• Former Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate Farnaz Fatemi and Santa Cruz County's new Poet Laureate Nancy Miller Gomez celebrate Gomez's 2025-26 appointment with wine, food, lively conversation, and poetry, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: bookshopsantacruz.com/poet-laureate-2025)
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15 APRIL 2025 — tuesday

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16 APRIL 2025 — wednesday

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17 APRIL 2025 — thursday

• Irish poet Seán Hewitt presents his debut novel, Solar Hits, in conversation with queer, Jewish poet, writer, and educator Sam Sax, Yr Dead, City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/sean-hewitt)
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18 APRIL 2025 — friday

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19 APRIL 2025 — saturday

• Benicia Poet Laureate Katrina Monroe and Benicia Literary Arts host an art and ekphrastic poetry reading in collaboration with artist Nanette Wyld; deadline to submit written poetic or prose ekphrastic writings inspired by the exhibit (400 words max in PDF format) is April 18 at Noon by email to beckydabish@gmail.com, NY2CA Gallery, 617 First Street, Benicia, 5:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.benicialiteraryarts.org)
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• The International Poetry Film Festival features screenings of nearly forty poem-based films from around the world, including selections from France, Canada, El Salvador, Ireland, and United States, among other countries, and the program will include a variety of experimental, narrative, documentary, and animated poem-based films, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, tickets from $22, 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/international-poetry-film-festival-los-angeles-2025-official-selection-tickets-1308799778369?aff=oddtdtcreator)
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20 APRIL 2025 — sunday

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21 APRIL 2025 — monday

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22 APRIL 2025 — tuesday

• Romance novelist Emily Henry celebrates her newly released novel, Great Big Beautiful Life, with coffee, Pinkberry yogurt, and special giveaway items including a limited supply of bookmarks, pins, tote bags, and more, Camino Books, 1555 Camino Del Mar, Suite 114, Del Mar, 9:00 am PDT (For more information, visit: caminobks.com/event/2025-04-22/april-22-9am-emily-henry-release-party)
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• "Bestiaries of the More-Than-Humane" workshop led by experimental philosopher, artist, and writer Jonathon Keats asks participants to evaluate the lifeways of animals and plants and fungi they know personally, to find guidance that might be applied to the human domain, City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, noon PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/bestiaries-of-the-more-than-humane-a-workshop-by-jonathon-keats)
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23 APRIL 2025 — wednesday

• Saint Mary's College of California Visiting Writers Series welcomes American-South Korean novelist R.O. Kwon, Exhibit, in conversation, De La Salle Hall, Hagerty Lounge, 1928 St Mary's Road, Moraga, free, 2:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.stmarys-ca.edu/graduate-professional-studies/mfa-creative-writing)
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24 APRIL 2025 — thursday

• Andy Young celebrates her second poetry collection, Museum of the Soon to Depart, recently released by Carnegie Mellon University Press, Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.pegasusbookstore.com)
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25 APRIL 2025 — friday

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26 APRIL 2025 — saturday

• The 30th annual LA Times Festival of Books presents indoor and outdoor events including over 200 author and celebrity panels, one-on-one conversations, music, film screenings, book signings, exhibitor booths, Children's Stage, food and cooking demos, bilingual programming and more, authors include poet Amanda Gorman, novelist Percival Everett, Pico Iyer, Chelsea Handler, Stacey Abrams, and many more; today's Poetry Stage features emcees Elena Karina Byrne and Marty L. Williams; 10:00 am: Airea D. Matthews, Bread and Circus; 10:20 am: Remica Bingham-Risher, Room Swept Home; 10:40 am: Cindy Juyoung Ok, Ward Toward; 11:00 am: Alison C. Rollins, Black Bell; 11:20 am: David St. John, Prayer for My Daughter; 11:40 am: Consuelo Wise, boy; Noon: Ariana Benson, Black Pastoral; 12:30 pm: LA Times Book Prize in Poetry Finalists Roundtable with Remica Bingham-Risher, Airea D. Matthews, John Evans, Cindy Juyoung Ok, and Alison C. Rollins; 1:00 pm: Danez Smith, Bluff; 1:20 pm: Kim Dower, What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria; 1:40 pm: Elizabeth Jacobson, There Are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral; 2:00 pm: Mark Irwin, Once When Green; 2:20 pm: Louise Mathias, What if the Invader is Beautiful; 2:40 pm: Gabrielle Civil, In and Out of Place: Mexico/Performance/Writing; 3:20 pm: Callie Siskel, Two Minds; 3:40 pm: Jan Beatty, Dragstripping; 4:00 pm: Blas Falconer, Rara Avis; 4:20 pm: Michelle Bitting, Dummy Ventriloquist; 4:40 pm: Daniel Lawless, I Tell You This Now; 5:00 pm: Jose Hernandez Diaz, Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man; 5:20 pm: Poetry Art Performance, with poet Gail Wronsky and artist Gronk Nicandro; University of Southern California campus, admission is free, photo ID will be required to enter USC, tickets for panels come with a small reservation fee required for panel sessions in classrooms and campus theatres, event parking is $20, parking garages are credit card only, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, eventinfo@latimes.com, or visit: events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/schedule)
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• Upsurge! with poets Raymond Nat Turner and Zigi Lowenberg and musicians Tammy Lynne Hall (piano), Roger Glenn (saxophone), Kevin Goldberg (bass), and Larry Vann (drums) celebrate National Poetry Month, Jazz Appreciation Month, and the great bass-baritone concert artist, actor, and activist Paul Robeson's 127th Birthday, Plymouth Church of Jazz and Justice, 424 Monte Vista Avenue, Oakland, $20 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds, 5:00-7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-jazz-appreciation-month-with-upsurge-tickets-1320293165399?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl)
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27 APRIL 2025 — sunday

• Elsa Frausto, the eighth Poet Laureate of Sunland Tujunga, and Sean McGrath, poet, writer and teacher, author of Untitled Baby Project, read their poetry, open mic follows, refreshments provided, The Bolton Hall Museum, 10110 Commerce Avenue, Tujunga, 4:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: villagepoets.blogspot.com)
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• The 30th annual LA Times Festival of Books presents indoor and outdoor events including over 200 author and celebrity panels, one-on-one conversations, music, film screenings, book signings, exhibitor booths, Children's Stage, food and cooking demos, bilingual programming and more, authors include poet Amanda Gorman, novelist Percival Everett, Pico Iyer, Chelsea Handler, Stacey Abrams, and many more; today's Poetry Stage features emcees Elena Karina Byrne and Marty L. Williams; 10:00 am: Holaday Mason, As If Scattered; 10:20 am: Tony Barnstone, Apocryphal Poems; 10:40 am: Amy Gerstler, Is This My Final Form?; 11:00 am: Perry Janes, Find Me When You're Ready; 11:20 am: Mita Mahato, Arctic Play; 11:40 am: Camille T. McDaniel, Blood, Skin, and Water; Noon: Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse, Dream State: A Commonplace Book; 12:30 pm: 30 Years of Los Angeles Poetry: A 30th Anniversary Panel, with Elena Karina Byrne, Amy Gerstler, Suzanne Lummis, Luis J. Rodriguez; 1:00 pm: Kim Addonizio, Exit Opera; 1:20 pm: Avan Jogia, Autopsy (of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob): (poems of rage, love, sex, and sadness);; 1:40 pm: Sarah Maclay, The H.D. Sequence—A Concordance; 2:00 pm: Derrick Austin, Tenderness; 2:20 pm: Donna Sprujit-Metz, To Phrase a Prayer for Peace; 2:40 pm: Nathan Xavier Osorio, Querida; 3:00 pm: Stella Wong, Stem; 3:20 pm: Carol Moldaw, Go Figure; 3:40 pm: Ruben Quesada, Brutal Companion; 4:00 pm: Lory Bedikian, Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body; 4:20 pm: Farid Matuk, Moon Mirrored Indivisible; 4:40 pm: WriteGirl Poets Performance, I Tell You This Now; 5:00 pm: Jose Hernandez Diaz, Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man; 5:20 pm: Poetry Art Performance, with poet Gail Wronsky and artist Gronk Nicandro; University of Southern California campus, admission is free, photo ID will be required to enter USC, tickets for panels come with a small reservation fee required for panel sessions in classrooms and campus theatres, event parking is $20, parking garages are credit card only, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm PDT (For more information, eventinfo@latimes.com, or visit: events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/schedule)
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28 APRIL 2025 — monday

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29 APRIL 2025 — tuesday

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30 APRIL 2025 — wednesday

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