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Elena Karina Byrne and Gail Wronsky
Tongo Eisen-Martin
Tongo Eisen-Martin, C. Liegh McInnis, Carlton Turner, Charlie Braxton
26 MAY 2021 — wednesday
The San Francisco Public Library presents the reading "Poetry and Resistance," featuring five poets from Mississippi: C. Liegh McInnis, Matters of Reality: Mind, Body, and Soul, Carlton Turner, co-founder of the performing arts group M.U.G.A.B.E.E., Charlie Braxton, Embers Among the Ashes: Poems in a Haiku Manner, Halima J. Olufemi, member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and JXN People's Assembly, and Monica "Surreal the Messenger" Atkins, culture worker, labor organizer, and Director of Organizing for the Climate Justice Alliance membership, hosted by San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin, free, online, 6:00-7:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: sfpl.org/events/2021/05/26/performance-poetry-and-resistance)
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7 DECEMBER 2021 — tuesday
- Cobalt Poets presents a reading featuring poet and performing artist Karla Cordero, Grasshoppers Before God, How to Pull Apart the Earth, with open mic to follow, online via Zoom, free, 7:30 pm PST (Register to attend: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
8 DECEMBER 2021 — wednesday
- City Lights Books presents writer Nancy Perloff, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Collections at the Getty Research Institute, celebrating the launch of her new books, Concrete Poetry: A 21st Anthology, a wide-ranging collection of poetry that reflects and re-evaluates the concrete poetry movement, in conversation with editor and writer Antonio Sergio Bessa, Öyvind Fahlström: The Art of Writing, free, online via Zoom, 6:00 pm PST (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)
9 DECEMBER 2021 — thursday
- Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Elena Karina Byrne, If This Makes You Nervous, and Gail Wronsky, Under the Capsized Boat We Fly: New & Selected Poems, online via Zoom, free, 7:00 pm PST (Register to attend: please click here; you will receive an email with a link to join the reading)
10 DECEMBER 2021 — friday
- The Poetry Center presents a reading and conversation with poets Chris Nealon (The Shore, Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall) and Stephanie Young (It's No Good Everything's Bad, Ursula or University), in person at East Bay Media Center, 1939 Addison Street, Berkeley, free, 7:00 pm PST (For more information: poetry.sfsu.edu/events/29207-chris-nealon-and-stephanie-young-reading-and-conversation)
11 DECEMBER 2021 — saturday
- The Poetry Center presents the 36th annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture, this year given by poet and scholar Chris Nealon, The Shore, his subject will be "George Oppen and the Future," introduced by Brandon Brown, in person at East Bay Media Center, 1939 Addison Street, Berkeley, free, 7:00 pm PST (For more information: poetry.sfsu.edu/events/29208-chris-nealon-george-oppen-memorial-lecture)
12 DECEMBER 2021 — sunday
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13 DECEMBER 2021 — monday
- City Lights Books presents journalist and writer Eduardo Berti, Agua, La mujer de Wakefield, reading from his new novel, An Ideal Presence, in conversation with Daniel Levin Becker, translator of the book, online via Zoom, free, 2:00 pm PST (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)
14 DECEMBER 2021 — tuesday
- Cobalt Poets presents a poetry reading featuring Sean Mahoney, with open mic to follow, online via Zoom, free. 7:30 pm PST (Register to attend: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
15 DECEMBER 2021 — wednesday
- City Lights Books presents poet and translator Gloria Gervitz, reading and discussing her new book, Migrations, a collection of poems forty-four years in the making, in conversation with Mark Schafer, visual artist and translator of the book, online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PST (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)
16 DECEMBER 2021 — thursday
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17 DECEMBER 2021 — friday
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18 DECEMBER 2021 — saturday
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19 DECEMBER 2021 — sunday
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20 DECEMBER 2021 — monday
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21 DECEMBER 2021 — tuesday
- Cobalt Poets presents a poetry reading featuring Deborah P. Kolodji, Highway of Sleeping Towns, with open mic to follow, online via Zoom, free, 7:30 pm PST (Register to attend: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
22 DECEMBER 2021 — wednesday
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24 DECEMBER 2021 — friday
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26 DECEMBER 2021 — sunday
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27 DECEMBER 2021 — monday
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28 DECEMBER 2021 — tuesday
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