Dane Cervine, Carolyn Miller, Lenore Myers 3/29, Berkeley more info
Molly Fisk and Francesca Bell 5/17, Berkeley more info
Bill Vartnaw
Bill Vartnaw and Jack Crimmins, with open mic
1 JUNE 2023 — thursday
Bird & Beckett presents a reading with featured poets Bill Vartnaw, Kit Fox Blues, and Jack Crimmins, Sonoma County Poet Laureate emeritus and author of The Nile to the Milky Way, followed by an open mic, Bird & Beckett Books and Records, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, free, 7:00-9:00 pm PDT (More information here: birdbeckett.com)
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)
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).
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)