Laurel Benjamin, Caroline Goodwin, Robin Michel, Lisa Rosenberg 10/26, Berkeley more info
Desert Split Open Mic Reading
17 SEPTEMBER 2023 — sunday
The Desert Split Open Mic returns after summer break and invites you to celebrate feminist, queer, or otherwise radical poetry and prose, bring something to read or come to listen, up to six-minutes per reader, Beatnik Lounge, 61597 29 Palms Highway, Joshua Tree, free, 6:00-8:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.facebook.com/desertsplitopen)
Poetry Flash presents Women in a Golden State, California Poets at 60 and Beyond, an anthology celebration and contributor's reading featuring poets Laurel Benjamin, Caroline Goodwin, Robin Michel, and Lisa Rosenberg, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm (poetryflash.org).
Poetry reading by Marcia Falk, The Sky Will Overtake You, and Lucille Lang Day, Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place; she is publisher of Scarlet Tanager Books, reading introduced by Richard Silberg, homemade goodies will be served, sponsored by Temple Sinai's Fine Arts Committee on Culture and Community, Temple Sinai Chapel, 2808 Summit, at 28th Street between Webster and Summit, enter at gate in parking lot, Oakland, free, 7:00 (www.oaklandsinai.org/event/poetry-reading1.html)
Sacramento Poetry Center presents "Dangerous Women," a poetry reading by Molly Fisk, Kim Shuck, Moira Magneson, and Tricia Caspers, open mic follows, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, 7:30