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Poetry Flash Reading Series
D. Nurkse and Eliot Schain
7/24, Online
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Steven Rood

Steven Rood, Richard Silberg, James M. LeCuyer

26 JUNE 2022 — sunday

Poetry Flash presents a reading by short story writer James M. Lecuyer, Duck Lessons, Richard Silberg, Associate Editor of Poetry Flash, and Steven Rood, Naming the Wind, Omnidawn Publishers, 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 virtual reading on Sunday, June 26 at 3:00 pm PDT. We are excited to bring you this event 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.

This reading is co-sponsored by Moe's Books in Berkeley. Featured books for this reading are available at bookshop.org/shop/poetryflash. James LeCuyer's Stories for Clever Children can be found at ravenandwrenpress.com/raven-wren-bookstore.

MORE ABOUT THE READERS
James M. LeCuyer is a fiction writer, educator, and poet. His short story books include Duck Lessons and Threnody for Sturgeon. Lucille Lang Day says, "James LeCuyer's stories, rich with humor and imagination, provide insight into all stages of life…and his keen ear for dialogue enables him to bring a wide range of characters to life: fishermen, teachers, lovers, graduate students, spunky children, insolent teens. Whether writing poetically or satirically, he gives us stories that are fully realized and a great pleasure to read." His newest collection, Stories for Clever Children & All Curious and Thoughtful Adults, began as tales he spun for his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. LeCuyer holds three Masters degrees, has served in the United States Navy, worked as a commercial halibut and herring fisherman, a taxi driver, a report writer for the Berkeley Police Department, a technical writer and editor for UC Berkeley, and as a high school English teacher at School of the Arts in San Francisco.

Steven Rood is a poet and practicing trial lawyer. His new collection is Naming the Wind. C.S. Giscombe says, "Late in this ranging and wild book, …Steven Rood offers this in response to an older poet's challenge—'I have power, depth, fear / as my tones, and uncertainty as my shape.' And the beauty and the multiplicity of uncertainties—that call, that calling forth—is what this book stakes its being on." The publisher, Omnidawn, notes: "Wind moves through this collection, opening the poems to the dying beauty of the natural world, to the weathers inside the psyche and without, and to the connections between a family and between the speaker and his mentor, the great poet Jack Gilbert. The collection navigates the intimacies of human relationships with others, the challenges of working as a lawyer trying to maintain integrity as others fall prey to corporate greed, and the complexity of holding a Jewish identity while being awake to tradition's hold on the mind and its cost." An earlier iteration of the manuscript for this book was a 2019 National Poetry Series Finalist. Rood's poems appear in Quarterly West, Marin Poetry Center Anthology, Fugue, Lyric, Hayden's Ferry Review, Tar River Poetry, New Letters, The Marlboro Review, The Atlanta Review, The Southern Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

Richard Silberg is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently The Horses: New and Selected Poems and Deconstruction of the Blues, recipient of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award and Northern California Book Award finalist. D. Nurkse says, "Dynamic, kaleidoscopic, shot through with a thousand faces and voices too real to be characters, Richard Silberg's work is a Chaucerian pilgrimage to strange and uncannily familiar places—Fremont, the Lower East Side, 'the humped island of Mind.' The Horses is a journey that dazzles wherever it goes as Silberg, 'an ecstatic balding older man / in a striped tee shirt,' slips into words and finds a way to make them accelerate, plummet, and soar. The goal is a new self, a way to ride out the old isms towards a possible future. The Horses is a deeply serious, wild, and powerful contribution to American letters." He co-translated, with Clare You, The Three Way Tavern, by Ko Un, Northern California Book Award-winner in Translation; Flowers Long For Stars, by Oh Sae-Young; This Side of Time, by Ko Un; and I Must Be the Wind, by Moon Chung-Hee. His poems appear in The American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Volt, Parthenon West Review, ZYZZYVA, and New American Writing. Richard Silberg is Associate Editor of Poetry Flash.




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3 JULY 2022 — sunday

4 JULY 2022 — monday

5 JULY 2022 — tuesday

6 JULY 2022 — wednesday

  • Mrs. Dalloway's presents short story writer Leslie Kirk Campbell, reading from and discussing her new book, The Man With Eight Pairs of Legs, in conversation with novelist Keenan Norris, Brother and the Dancer, winner of the 2012 James D. Houston Award, in person, Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, 7:00-8:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.mrsdalloways.com/events)
  • The San Francisco Public Library presents San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of Heaven Is All Goodbyes, winner of the California Book Award for Poetry, celebrating his debut record of spoken work poetry, I Go To The Railroad Track and Follow Them To The Station Of My Enemies, the event features a poetry reading by Eisen-Martin and friends, followed by a conversation about the work with Sonny Smith from Rocks In Your Head Records, in person, African American Center Exhibit Space, Third Floor, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00-7:30 pm PDT (More information here: sfpl.org/events/2022/07/06/performance-tongo-eisen-martin-spoken-word-album)

7 JULY 2022 — thursday

  • Bird & Beckett presents a poetry reading featuring Julie Rogers, Life on Earth, and Peter Marti, Elephants I Didn't Ride, followed by an open mic, hosted by Michael Koch and Jerry Ferraz, in person, Bird & Beckett Music & Records, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, free, donations welcome, 7:00 pm PDT (More information here: birdbeckett.com/poets-7-7-22)

8 JULY 2022 — friday

9 JULY 2022 — saturday

  • Writers With Drinks presents a reading with journalist and novelist Vanessa Hua, Forbidden City, Amy Schneider, holder of the second-longest winning streak in Jeopardy!, mathematician Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything, and novelist Nina LaCour, We Are Okay, winner of the 2017 Printz Prize, Yerba Buena, all proceeds to benefit a local nonprofit, The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco, $5 to $20, no one turned away, 7:30-9:30 pm, doors open 7:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.writerswithdrinks.com)
  • City Lights Books presents novelist James Kelman, How Late It Was, How Late, 1994 Booker Prize-winner, discussing his new book, God's Teeth and Other Phenomena, in conversation with Alan Black, cofounder of the Scottish Cultural and Arts Foundation and author of Kick the Balls: A Bruising Season in the Life of a Suburban Soccer Coach, online via Zoom, free, 11:00 am PDT (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)

10 JULY 2022 — sunday

  • The Literature, Film, Drama, and Music Contingent of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley presents speaker and poet Arif Gamal discussing his new collection, Morning in Serra Mattu: A Nubian Ode, a profound meditation on life in modern Sudan, online, free, 1:00 pm PDT (Zoom link here: us02web.zoom.us/j/84257017624)
  • Marin Poetry Center presents their 2022 Traveling Show, a multi-reading summer poetry event where members perform their own work, this Part 3 featuring poets Grace Marie Grafton, Jester, Barbara Swift Brauer, Rain, Like a Thief, Marie Henry, Ann Robinson, Kate Peper, Dipped in Black Water, 2016 New Women's Voices Award-winner, and Cathy Shea, Genealogy Lessons for the Laity, online via Zoom, free, 3:00-4:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: marinpoetrycenter.org/events)
  • The Green Arcade presents editor and essayist Tom Wetzel, discussing his new book, Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century, an accessible read about capitalism and where power truly lies, and how the powerless can get the upper hand, in conversation with Leslie Leyba, co-op member of the worker-owned Rainbow Grocery, introductions by author and organizer James Tracy, Hillbilly Nationalists, in person, The Green Arcade, 1680 Market Street, San Francisco, free, 5:00 pm PDT (More information here: thegreenarcade.com)

11 JULY 2022 — monday

  • Rivertown Poets presents a poetry reading featuring Abby Caplin, A Doctor Only Pretends: Poems about illness, death, and in-between, and Kathleen McClung, A Juror Must Fold in on Herself, followed by an open mic, three-minutes per reader, hosted by poet and artist Sande Anfang, Xylem Highway, online, free, 6:15 pm PDT (RSVP to attend/sign up for the open mic: aqus.com/rivertownpoets)
  • Skylight Books presents novelist Meng Jin, author of Little Gods, finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award and Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, reading from and discussing her new book, Self-Portrait with Ghost, a collection of ten thematically linked stories exploring intimacy and isolation, in person, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, 7:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-meng-jin-presents-self-portrait-ghost)

12 JULY 2022 — tuesday

  • City Lights Books presents feminist poet, translator, and activist Margaret Randall, author and editor of nearly 200 books and recipient of the 2019 Hayde'e Santamari'a Medal and the 2019 Poet of Two Hemispheres Prize, reading from and discussing her new book, Stormclouds Like Unkept Promises, an insightful collection of poetry that blends the political and the personal, featuring photographs by artist Barbara Byers, online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)
  • Cobalt Poets presents an all-open reading with guest emcee Tara A. Elliot, poet and founder of Salisbury's Poetry Week, online via Zoom, free, 7:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
  • Coastside Poetry presents a poetry reading featuring Marvin R. Hiemstra, Poet Wrangler: Droll Poems, Raven Understands: A Happy Memoir, open mic to follow, up to twenty readers, three-minutes per reader, spoken poetry only, online, free, 6:00-8:00 pm PDT (RSVP to attend: coastsidepoetry.org)

13 JULY 2022 — wednesday

  • Point Reyes Books presents novelist and editor Emily Hall and short story writer and novelist Mark Haber, Reinhardt's Garden, longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award, both reading from and discussing their new novels, The Longcut and Saint Sebastian's Abyss, respectively, in conversation with novelist Mauro Javier Cárdenas, The Revolutionaries Try Again, Aphasia, online, free, 7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.ptreyesbooks.com/event/emily-hall-mark-haber)

14 JULY 2022 — thursday

  • The San Francisco Public Library presents the monthly Poem Jam, hosted by San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck, Exile Heart, this month featuring San Francisco's Revolutionary Poets Brigade reading from their new anthology Storm Warning: Poets for the Planet / Building Socialism, with readings by poets Lisbit Bailey, Kristina Brown, Bobby Coleman, John Curl, Karen Melander-Magoon, and special guests, come for an evening of poems on the climate crisis and environmental and social justice, in person, Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room A, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00-7:15 pm PDT (More information here: sfpl.org/events/2022/07/14/performance-kim-shucks-poem-jam-storm-warning-poets-planet)
  • Santa Rosa Arts Center presents poet David Madgalene, I Heard a Journeyman Sing, with musical performances by Steve Shain on bass and songwriter Chris Bramble, followed by an open mic, hosted by Brian Martens, in person, Santa Rosa Arts Center, 312 South A Street, Santa Rosa, free, donations welcome, 7:00-8:30 pm PDT (More information here: santarosaartscenter.org/index.php/speakeasy-2-2)

15 JULY 2022 — friday

  • Beyond Baroque presents a poetry reading featuring Susan Suntree, Sacred Sites: The Secret History of Southern California, winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Narrative Poetry, and Tom Laichas, Empire of Eden, celebrating their new books, Dear Traveler and Sixty-Three Photographs at the End of a War, respectively, in person, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, free, 8:00-10:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html)

16 JULY 2022 — saturday

17 JULY 2022 — sunday

18 JULY 2022 — monday

  • City Lights Books presents novelist Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree, winner of the silver medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, discussing her new memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, a passionately written exploration of her family's otherworldly legacy and the power of storytelling, in conversation with essayist Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias, in person in Kerouac Alley, next to City Lights Bookstore, between Columbus and Grant Avenue, San Francisco, free, 6:00 pm PDT (More information here: citylights.com/events)

19 JULY 2022 — tuesday

  • Bookshop Santa Cruz presents award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist Erika Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, discussing her new memoir, Crying in the Bathroom, a hilarious, insightful, and brutally honest collection of essays in which Sánchez delves into a range of topics from sex to white feminism to depression, in person, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, free, 7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.bookshopsantacruz.com/erika-sanchez)
  • Cobalt Poets presents a poetry reading by Iván Salinas, with open mic to follow, online via Zoom, free, 7:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)

20 JULY 2022 — wednesday

  • Aunt Lute Books presents Home in the Bay, a reading series featuring the voices of those experiencing houselessness, gentrification, migration, and colonization, asking the question, What does home mean to you?, emceed by San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck, Exile Heart, readers TBA, co-presented by Sogorea Te' Land Trust, POOR Magazine, Poets Reading the News, Black Freighters Press, and the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, online, free, 5:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.eventbrite.com/e/home-in-the-bay-a-reading-series-the-third-event-tickets-348191208277)
  • City Lights Books presents award-winning viral curator and poet Natasha Marin, reading from and discussing her new book, Black Powerful: Black Voices Reimagine Revolution, a breathtaking collection of reflections exploring the resilience, joy, and triumph of Black people everywhere, from over one-hundred Black voices, co-presented with McSweeney's, online, free, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)
  • City Lights Books presents novelist Jamil Jan Kochai, 99 Nights in Logar, reading from his new book, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories, online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)
  • Bird & Beckett Books & Records presents poet and translator Zack Rogow, reading from his latest collection, Irreverent Litanies, joined by fiction writer and poet Judith Serin, Gravity, in person, Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, free, 7:00 pm PDT (More information here: birdbeckett.com)

21 JULY 2022 — thursday

  • Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry presents a reading featuring poet Melissa Eleftherion-Carr, field guide to autobiography, prism maps, with open mic to follow, hosted by blake more, Poet Laureate of Point Arena, online via Zoom, free, 7:00 pm PDT (Email blake@snakelyone.com for the Zoom link, or to sign up for the open mic)
  • California Institute of Integral Studies presents activist, biologist, and writer Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, discussing her new book, Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back, online, pay-what-you-can, suggested admission $10, 7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/serano-julia-july-21-2022)
  • City Lights Books presents novelist and short story writer K-Ming Chang, author of Bestiary, longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, reading from her new collection, God of Want, stories centered around myth and memories, bodies, and the relationships of Asian American women, online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)
  • 18th Annual San Francisco Writers Conference, keynote speakers include Charlie Jane Anders, Annalee Newitz, and Lysley Tenorio, presenters include agents, publishers, editors, authors, and book marketing professionals, $75-$795, this conference was re-scheduled from February, in-person, Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, (For more information: www.sfwriters.org)
  • Rivertown Poets presents a three-way poetry reading featuring Kelliane Parker, Down the Foggy Streets of My Mind, Dee Allen, A Bony Framework for the Tangible Universe, and Kimi Sugioka, Wile & Wing, Alameda Poet Laureate, followed by an open mic, ten-available slots, first come first read, hosted by poet and artist Sande Anfang, Xylem Highway, online, free, 6:15 pm PDT (More information here: aqus.com/rivertownpoets)

22 JULY 2022 — friday

  • 18th Annual San Francisco Writers Conference, keynote speakers include Charlie Jane Anders, Annalee Newitz, and Lysley Tenorio, presenters include agents, publishers, editors, authors, and book marketing professionals, $75-$795, this conference was re-scheduled from February, in-person, Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, (For more information: www.sfwriters.org)

23 JULY 2022 — saturday

  • 18th Annual San Francisco Writers Conference, keynote speakers include Charlie Jane Anders, Annalee Newitz, and Lysley Tenorio, presenters include agents, publishers, editors, authors, and book marketing professionals, $75-$795, this conference was re-scheduled from February, in-person, Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, (For more information: www.sfwriters.org)

24 JULY 2022 — sunday

  • Poetry Flash presents a reading by D. Nurkse, A Country of Strangers: New and Selected Poems, and Eliot Schain, The Distant Sound, 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)
  • 18th Annual San Francisco Writers Conference, keynote speakers include Charlie Jane Anders, Annalee Newitz, and Lysley Tenorio, presenters include agents, publishers, editors, authors, and book marketing professionals, $75-$795, this conference was re-scheduled from February, in-person, Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, (For more information: www.sfwriters.org)

25 JULY 2022 — monday

26 JULY 2022 — tuesday

  • Cobalt Poets presents a poetry reading featuring JR Turek, named Long Island Poet of the Year in 2019 and the author of several collections including A is for Almost Anything, Imagistics, and They Come and They Go, open mic to follow, online via Zoom, free, 7:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
  • City Lights Books celebrates Issue 123 of the esteemed literary journal ZYZZYVA, with appearances from contributors to the journal, novelist Maggie Millner, Couplets: A Love Story, poet Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Quiet, novelist Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy, and poet Chris Carosi, Fictions, hosted by Oscar Villalon, writer and managing editor of ZYZZYVA, online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)

27 JULY 2022 — wednesday

28 JULY 2022 — thursday

  • Mrs. Dalloway's Richard J. Nevle, deputy director of the Earth Systems Program at Stanford University, and poet Steven Nightingale, The Hot Climate of Promises and Grace, reading from and discussing their new book, The Paradise Notebooks: 90 Miles Across the Sierra Nevada, a collection of essays and poetry contemplating natural phenomena in the Sierra Nevada, co-authored by Nevle and Nightingale, in person, Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00-8:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.mrsdalloways.com/events)

29 JULY 2022 — friday

30 JULY 2022 — saturday

31 JULY 2022 — sunday


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