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"Colossus: Home": Sarah Kobrinsky, D.L. Lang, Juanita J. Martin, Kim Shuck, Kimi Sugioka

11 APRIL 2021 — sunday

Poetry Flash presents a virtual poetry reading by Sarah Kobrinsky, D.L. Lang, Juanita J. Martin, Kim Shuck, and Kimi Sugioka, current and former poet laureate contributors to Colossus: Home; the anthology addresses the Bay Area housing crisis, online via Zoom, free, 3:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: please click here; you will receive an email with a link to join the reading)

Please join us for a Poetry Flash virtual reading on Sunday, April 11, at 3:00 pm PDT! We are pleased to bring you a Colossus: Home anthology reading via Zoom. To register for this reading, please click on the link in the calendar listing above. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Thank you for continuing to support Poetry Flash and our reading series during these unprecedented times.

Colossus: Home, An Anthology of Lives In & Out of Place, edited by Sara Biel and Karla Brundage, presents poetry on the San Francisco Bay Area's housing crisis. These poets, all contributors to the anthology, are current or former Poet Laureates from across the Bay Area. You can purchase this exciting anthology at www.colossuspress.org/buy.

MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Sarah Kobrinsky's recent book is Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything. Jill McDonough says, "In Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything, Sarah Kobrinsky opens with a brief meditation on the imposter syndrome that also speaks to where all poems come from, anyway. Elsewhere we read 'I make. I tinker. I create. An instinct born/of my blueprints, deep within my DNA.' But these poems also come from us, from knowing what people say about kids looking like the milkman, pranks like TP-ing houses and tying shoelaces together, a recognizable rhythm of punchlines." Born in Canada, raised in North Dakota, seasoned in England, and tempered in California, she was the Poet Laureate of Emeryville, California, 2013-2015.
D.L. Lang is the former Poet Laureate of Vallejo, California, 2017-2019. She is the author of twelve poetry books, most recently Paradise Collectors: A Book of Jewish Poetry and Armor Against the Dawn: Poetry of Protest, and one spoken word album. She can be found behind a mic throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and at poetryebook.com.
Juanita J. Martin is Fairfield, California's first Poet Laureate, 2010-2012. Her poetry book is The Lighthouse Beckons. Her poems have appeared in Blue Collar Review, SoMa Literary Review, Rattlesnake Review, and others; her nonfiction writing has appeared in Sonoma Discoveries Magazine. She was a longtime member of Redwood Writers, and is a current member of Napa Valley Writers, Benicia Writers Salon, Ina Coolbrith Circle, and Benicia First Tuesday Poets. When she isn't writing or volunteering, she reads on Vallejo Ozcat radio's ARTbeat. For more see www.jmartinpoetwriter.com.
Kim Shuck is San Francisco's seventh Poet Laureate, 2017-2020. Deer Trails, published by City Lights Books, is her most recent book. She is an Ani Yun Wiya (Cherokee)/Polish-American poet, author, weaver, and beadwork artist who draws from Southeastern Native American culture and tradition as well as contemporary urban Indian life. She is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She earned an M.F.A. in Textiles from San Francisco State University. She is the winner of the Diane Decorah First Book Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas and the Mary Tallmountain Award for Freedom Voices. She also received the Academy of American Poets National Laureate Fellowship and the Northern California Book Reviewers Groundbreaker Award.
Kimi Sugioka's newest poetry book is Wile & Wing. She is the current Poet Laureate of Alameda, California, 2020-2023. Anne Waldman said, "Kimi Sugioka is a poet with a lot of guises: maternal, witchy, passionate, detached observer…She moves through the female cycle confidently, poised, strong in her observance and power." Born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and raised in Berkeley, Kimi Sugioka is a poet, songwriter, and educator who performs her work frequently throughout the Bay Area. She has worked in public education for decades. She earned her BA from San Francisco State University and MFA from the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

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Cindy Cohn presents her new book, Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance, both in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required for Zoom, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/cindy-cohn-privacys-defender-tickets-1979869193053?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/cindy-cohn-launch-party-for-privacys-defender)
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11 MARCH 2026 — wednesday

The Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers' Series at SDSU presents San Diego Poet Laureate Paola Capó-García in a reading from her most recent work, including Clap For Me That's Not Me, in-person, San Diego State University Library, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, in the Leon Williams Room, LL430, Love Library, Fourth Floor, free, 7:00 pm (library.sdsu.edu/events#event-details/6337cfc7-8539-417c-811a-ea823b24ce48)
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Dan Simon reads from his new novel, Ashland , in conversation with fiction writer, poet, and playwright Barry Gifford, both in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required for Zoom, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/dan-simon-in-conversation-with-barry-gifford-tickets-1979870663451?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/dan-simon-in-conversation-with-barry-gifford
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The Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers' Series at SDSU presents Amaranth Borsuk, scholar, poet, and book artist working at the intersection of print and digital media, in a reading from her recent work including W/\SH, a collaboration with Terri Witek, in-person, San Diego State University Library, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, in the Leon Williams Room, LL430, Love Library, Fourth Floor, free, 7:00 pm (library.sdsu.edu/events#event-details/61031f05-e592-445c-b1cb-1fd19e1bc8ec)
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Marc Francis in conversation with Jesse Ataide, writer and creator of QUEER MODERNISMS website, to celebrate Marc Francis's Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon, on Zoom, free, registration required, 6:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/marc-franciscurating-deviance-programming-the-queer-film-canon-tickets-1982314955394?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/marc-francis-curating-deviance-programming-the-queer-film-canon)
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19 MARCH 2026 — thursday

City Lights and the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University celebrate the publication of America, A Love Story, new poems on love, family, and art, with a reading by the poet and author, Camille T. Dungy, in conversation with poet Tonya M. Foster, on Zoom, free, registration required, 6:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/camille-t-dungy-in-conversation-with-tonya-m-foster-tickets-1982617001823?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/camille-t-dungy-in-conversation-with-tonya-m-foster)
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City Lights and Litquake co-present Hannah Lillith Assadi reading from and celebrating the publication of her new book, Paradiso 17: A Novel, in conversation with memoirist and novelist Ingrid Rojas Contreras, in-store, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 pm (citylights.com/events/hannah-lillith-assadi)
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25 MARCH 2026 — wednesday

Crystal Simone Smith celebratesthe publication of her new book, Common Sense (1776) Addressed to Today's Citizens of America: An Erasure, in conversation with poet Tongo Eisen-Martin, former San Francisco Poet Laureatem, in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required for Zoom, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/crystal-simone-smith-in-conversation-with-tongo-eisen-martin-tickets-1979876751661?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/crystal-simone-smith)
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A poetry reading from new books by acclaimed poets Dean Rader, Notes, with Matthew Zapruder reading from How To Continue, both in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required for Zoom, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/dean-rader-with-matthew-zapruder-tickets-1979890798676?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/dean-rader-with-matthew-zapruder)
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Poetry Flash presents a Sixteen Rivers Press Book Launch poetry reading by Dane Cervine, Children of Obscura: This Mysterious Human, Carolyn Miller, Random Universe, and Lenore Myers, Afterimages, 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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University of San Francisco's MFA Writing Program Reading Series hosts poet Derrick Austin, reading from This Elegance, his forthcoming collection, he is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a Cave Canem Fellow, USFCA's McLaren Complex 252, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, free, 7:45 pm (www.usfca.edu/event/mfa-writing-program-reading-series-derrick-austin/13057164)
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