Poetry Revision Workshop with Hollie Hardy
11 AUGUST 2022 — thursday
San Francisco Writing Institute presents "Poetry Revision Workshop," led by poet Hollie Hardy, How to Take a Bullet, and Other Survival Poems, winner of the annual Poetry Center Book Award in 2016; the workshop will focus on deep revision of existing poems, attendees are welcome to write new poems to workshop, but it is not required, class time will be spent workshopping poems in small groups, this workshop can be taken on its own or as a follow-up to Hardy's previous workshop, "Generative Poetry," runs six-weeks, August 11-September 15, $425, 5:30-7:30 pm PDT (Sign up here: sfwriting.institute/events/poetry-revision-workshop)
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14 AUGUST 2022 — sunday
- Sixteen Rivers Press celebrates the launch of two bilingual collections, Plagios/Plagiarisms, Volume Two and Beyond the Time of Words/Más allá del tiempo de las palabras, featuring readings from the translators, Terry Ehret, Nancy Morales, and Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman, joined by Marjorie Agosín, author of Beyond the Time of Words, in person, Nicholson Ranch Winery, 4200 Napa Road, Sonoma, free, 2:00-5:00 pm PDT
- Second Sunday presents a reading with poets Stephen Thomas Roberts, David Baker, Whale Fall, and Rebecca Foust, The Unexploded Ordinance Bin, winner of the 2018 Swan Scythe Chapbook Award, online, free, 3:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: secondsundayreadings.com)
15 AUGUST 2022 — monday
16 AUGUST 2022 — tuesday
- Cobalt Poets presents a reading featuring poet and editor Rick Christiansen, with open mic to follow, online via Zoom, free, 7:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
- Skylight Books presents novelist Elaine Castillo, America is Not the Heart, finalist for the Elle Big Book Award, discussing her new book, How to Read Now, a dynamic collection of essays that examines why reading matters today, in person, Skylight Books, 1818 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-elaine-castillo-presents-how-read-now)
17 AUGUST 2022 — wednesday
- Sixteen Rivers Press celebrates the launch of two bilingual collections, Plagios/Plagiarisms, Volume Two and Beyond the Time of Words/Más allá del tiempo de las palabras, featuring readings from the translators, Terry Ehret, Nancy Morales, and Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman, joined by Marjorie Agosín, author of Beyond the Time of Words, in person, Heal the Bay Aquarium, Santa Monica Pier, 1600 Ocean Front Walk, Santa Monica, free, 7:00-8:00 pm PDT
- City Lights Books presents best-selling novelist Elif Batuman, The Idiot, finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, discussing her new book, Either/Or, a continuation of beloved protagonist Selin and her quest for self-knowledge, online via Zoom, free, 5:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)
18 AUGUST 2022 — thursday
19 AUGUST 2022 — friday
20 AUGUST 2022 — saturday
- CalPoets presents the 2022 Poetry Symposium, an exciting day-long event including poetry readings, workshops, and presentations, teens and up welcome, featuring Luis J. Rodriguez, poet and founding editor of Tia Chucha Press, winner of the California Arts Council Legacy Fellowship and the Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award, and author of Borrowed Bones, online via Zoom, free, donations welcome, 9:00 am-9:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.californiapoets.org/events/calpoets-2022-virtual-poetry-symposium)
21 AUGUST 2022 — sunday
- Marin Poetry Center presents the 2022 Traveling Show, a multi-reading summer poetry event where members perform their own work, Part 5 features poets Lee Rossi, Wheelchair Samurai, Robin Lee, Gail Entrekin, The Art of Healing, Ella Eytan, Gabriel Rilleau, and Laurel Feigenbaum, Matrimony, with co-ambassadors Jackson Bramlette and Tashi Manchip, in person, Mill Valley Library, 375 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley, free, 3:00-4:00 pm PDT (More information here: marinpoetrycenter.org/events)
22 AUGUST 2022 — monday
- City Lights Books celebrates the launch of Second Stutter Volume Five, an annual San Francisco literary journal focused on contemporary English language poetry and translation, with readings by Jimmy Santiago Baca, Immigrants in Our Own Land, Jaime Chavez, Tureeda Mikell, Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine, Norma Cole, Natural Light, Adrian Lurssen, Neowise, Ivan Argüelles, Ars Poetica, and Eleni Stecopoulos, Armies of Compassion, hosted by poet Solomon Rino, online, free, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)
23 AUGUST 2022 — tuesday
- Cobalt Poets presents a reading featuring poet and artist Angélique Jamail, The Sharp Edges of Water, with open mic to follow, online via Zoom, free, 7:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
- The San Francisco Public Library presents novelist Beverly Jenkins, recipient of the 2017 Romance Writers of America Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award, discussing her new book, Wild Rain, the story of a Black female rancher in Wyoming after the Civil War, in conversation with librarian Rachel Fiege, online, free, 7:00-8:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: sfpl.org/events/2022/08/23/author-beverly-jenkins-and-rachel-fiege-conversation)
24 AUGUST 2022 — wednesday
25 AUGUST 2022 — thursday
26 AUGUST 2022 — friday
27 AUGUST 2022 — saturday
28 AUGUST 2022 — sunday
29 AUGUST 2022 — monday
30 AUGUST 2022 — tuesday
- Cobalt Poets presents a reading featuring poet and artist essa may ranapiri, author of the forthcoming book Echidna, with open mic to follow, online via Zoom, free, 7:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
31 AUGUST 2022 — wednesday
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