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21 OCTOBER 2023 — saturday

Medicine for Nightmares celebrates Lit Crawl, the poetry crawl finale of Litquake, with back-to-back readings, beginning with queer Filipinx poets of Sampaguita Press, Maria Bolaños, Christian Aldana, Czaerra Galicinao Ucol, and Keana Aguila Labra, then a Chicano Futurism reading featuring local authors in the upcoming anthology El Porvenir, Ya! (The Future Now), Armando Rendon, Maria Nieto, Juan G. Berumen, Scott Russell Duncan, W.O. Torres, and Ricardo Tavarez, and finally a special reading of Speaking Axolotl, with Sara Borjas, Angel Dominguez, and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, hosted by Josiah Luis Alderete, Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, free, 5:00-9:00 pm PDT (More information here: medicinefornightmares.com/events)




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19 JUNE 2025 — thursday

  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Richard Tillinghast, Night Train to Memphis, Jeanne Foster, Your Form Became My Own, and Alan Williamson, The Pattern More Complicated: New and Selected Poems, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 7:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).

20 JUNE 2025 — friday

  • Firefighter Kelly Ramsey reads from her new book, Wildfire Days: A Woman, a Hotshot Crew, and the Burning American West, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)

21 JUNE 2025 — saturday

  • Women in the Arts, a program with choreographer Kathryn Roszak, artistic director of Danse Lumière, presenters of dance performances based on literary works: screenings/performances, discussion, and tributes to Berkeley women in the arts; Kathryn Roszak's film, Women at the Top, featuring ballet dancer Lia Cirio will be screened, Berkeley Public Library, Central Branch, 2090 Kittredge Street, at Shattuck, downtown Berkeley free admission, 1:00 (RSVP by email, dance@dlkdance.com)
  • Beyond Baroque presents a fiction writers reading from Beyond Baroque's Monday Night Workshop, with writers Raquel Baker (workshop facilitator), Pat Branch, Sergey Denisov, River Langford, Julia Lopate, Jill Michaels, Jen Tilman, in person and livestreamed on YouTube, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, free admission, 2:00-4:00 (www.eventbrite.com/e/monday-night-workshop-reading-tickets-1366484153889?aff=oddtdtcreator)

22 JUNE 2025 — sunday

23 JUNE 2025 — monday

24 JUNE 2025 — tuesday

  • Leila Mottley reads from her new novel, The Girls Who Grew Big, joined in conversation by Ingrid Rojas Contreras; Leila Mottley is the winner of the Northern California Book Award for her previous novel, Nightcrawling, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)

25 JUNE 2025 — wednesday

  • Journalist Megan Greenwell reads from her new book, Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream, joined in conversation by Mike Isaac, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)

26 JUNE 2025 — thursday

  • Adam Becker reads from and presents his new book, More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)

27 JUNE 2025 — friday

28 JUNE 2025 — saturday

  • Book Launch for Spirit of Place: Mendocino County Women Poets Anthology, a celebration with a reading by many of the contributing poets; the anthology features one hundred women poets from across Mendocino County, the anthology is a special project of Mendocino County's first Poet Laureate, Devreaux Baker; Spirit of Place was edited by Devreaux Baker, Kate Dougherty, Maureen Epstein, Georgina Marie Guardado, Karen Lewis, and Blake More; Gallery Books will be on hand to sell copies; Main Gallery, Mendocino Art Center, 45200 Little Lake Street, Mendocino, free, 4:00-6:00 (For more information, email: dbaker@mcn.org)

29 JUNE 2025 — sunday

  • Café Frida Gallery presents a Poetry Festival, readers TBD, see website calendar, Café Frida, 300 South A Street, Santa Rosa (www.cafefridagallery.com)
  • Café Frida Poetry Festival presents Jack Crimmins, Lisa Shulman, Dave Holt, Melissa Eleftherion, readings from Phyllis Meshulam's new book by her daughter Audrey, John Duran, Briahn Kelly-Brennan, and Timothy Williams, hosted by Gwynn O'Gara, Café Frida, 300 South A Street, Santa Rosa, free, 1:00-3:00 (www.cafefridagallery.com)

30 JUNE 2025 — monday


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