Kazim Ali, Blas Falconer, Forrest Gander, Robert Hass, more
24 JUNE 2021 — thursday
Community of Writers presents the 2021 Benefit Poetry Reading, featuring poets Kazim Ali, The Voice of Sheila Chandra, Blas Falconer, Forgive the Body This Failure, Forrest Gander, Be With, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry), Robert Hass, The Apple Trees at Olema, Time and Materials, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award), Brenda Hillman. Extra Hidden Life, among the Days, Seasonal Works With Letters on Fire, winner of the 2014 Griffin International Poetry Prize, Sharon Olds, Arias, Stag's Leap, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and Evie Shockley, the new black, semiautomatic, both winners of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, emceed by poet Ananda Lima, Mother/land; this event benefits the Community of Writers' scholarship fund, event free, donations welcome, online via Zoom, 5:30 pm PDT (RSVP to attend: communityofwriters.org/events/event/2021-benefit-poetry-reading)
Daily Listings
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25 SEPTEMBER 2023 — monday
26 SEPTEMBER 2023 — tuesday
- Cobalt Poets presents a reading by featured poet Vayl Luella Larkin, followed by an open mic, online via Zoom, free, 7:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
- The Booksmith presents novelist Adam Mansbach, Go the Fuck to Sleep, celebrating the launch of his new book, The Golem of Brooklyn, in conversation with comedian and director W. Kamau Bell, Do the Work!, First Presbyterian Church of Oakland, 2619 Broadway, Oakland, $10 general admission, $25 ticket includes a signed copy of the book, 7:00 pm PDT (Purchase tickets here: (www.booksmith.com/event)
27 SEPTEMBER 2023 — wednesday
- Left Margin Lit presents a poetry workshop led by David Roderick, co-director of Left Margin Lit and author of Blue Colonial; the workshop will focus on short poems that make use of painterly images and surprising transitions and juxtapositions, all levels of experience welcome, runs four-weeks, September 27-October 18, Berkeley Public Library, North Branch, 1170 The Alameda, Berkeley, free, 6:00-7:30 pm PDT (RSVP to attend: www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/events/poetry-writing-workshop-left-margin-lit-north)
28 SEPTEMBER 2023 — thursday
- The Arts Research Center presents "Latinx Poetry Now," a reading and conversation with J. Michael Martinez, Heredities, winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, and aracelis girmay, The Black Maria, moderated by John Alba Cutler, Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall, Berkeley, free, 11:00 am-12:30 pm PDT (More information here: events.berkeley.edu/arc/event/204186-latinx-poetry-now-a-reading-and-conversation-with)
- Bird & Beckett presents a reading featuring poet Martin Nakell, Consciousness, fiction writer Rebecca Goodman, Forgotten Night, and poet Evan Burkin, Bird & Beckett Books and Records, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, free, 7:30-9:30 pm PDT (More information here: birdbeckett.com)
- Writers Read Ukiah presents poet Robin Gabbert, Diary of a Mad Poet, who will give a lecture on ekphrastic poetry and read from her new book, The Clandestine Life of Paintings in Poem, Grace Hudson Museum, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, $5 suggested donation, 7:00 pm PDT
29 SEPTEMBER 2023 — friday
- Small Press Traffic presents a poetry reading with Gia Gonzales, Render Sleaze, Muriel Leung, Imagine Us, The Swarm, and Jocelyn Saidenberg, If an Elsewhere, Et al. etc., 2831A Mission Street, San Francisco, free, 7:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.smallpresstraffic.org)
30 SEPTEMBER 2023 — saturday
- The Dancing Poetry Festival presents a memorial concert in honor of poet Richard Angilly, co-founder of the Poetic Dance Theater Company and who served as president of the Ina Coolbrith Circle for thirty years; the performance celebrates Angilly's life as well as the arts of poetry and dance together, Social Hall of Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley, 1 Lawson Road, Kensington, free, 1:00-4:00 pm PDT (Email: naticaaei@aol.com to RSVP)
- 42nd Annual Northern California Book Awards, honoring the published works and authors of Northern California, as well as California translators state-wide, presenting the FRED CODY AWARD, RECOGNITION and GROUNDBREAKER AWARDS, and awards in FICTION, POETRY, CREATIVE NONFICTION, GENERAL NONFICTION, CALIFORNIA TRANSLATION IN POETRY, CALIFORNIA TRANSLATION IN PROSE, CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, YOUNGER READERS, MIDDLE GRADE, YOUNG ADULT, bookselling follows, selected by Northern California Book Reviewers and sponsored by Poetry Flash, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 2:00 pm PDT (Check back for updates, poetryflash.org/programs/?p=ncba_2023 or https://sfpl.org/events)
- Sacramento Poetry Alliance presents a poetry reading by Camille Norton, Corruption, and Stella Beratlis, Dust Bowl Venus, Sacramento Poetry Alliance, 1169 Perkins Way, Sacramento, free, 4:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.facebook.com/sacramentopoetryalliance)
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