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11 JULY 2025 — friday

• Beyond Baroque presents lawyer and poet Jeffrey Graham, Elegy to a Surveyor, renowned educator and activist Paul Cummins read from their respective books and from new works, joined by legendary L.A. poet Michael C. Ford, reading new and selected work, In Case of Flood Stand on this Book It's Dry English, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, Eventbrite tickets $11.49, members and students free, 7:30 (www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-of-poetry-michael-c-ford-jeffrey-graham-paul-cummins-tickets-1409718970389?aff=oddtdtcreator)
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12 JULY 2025 — saturday

• Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show presents a poetry reading by Abby Caplin, Margaret Stawowy, Simona Carini, Steve Maxwell, and Arlene Wohl, with host Francesca Bell, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, 616 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley, free, 2:30 (marinpoetrycenter.org/mec-events-category/traveling-show)
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13 JULY 2025 — sunday

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14 JULY 2025 — monday

• Litquake presents Literary Pub Trivia, hosted by forty-time Jeopardy! winner Amy Schneider, co-presented by Berkeleyside, the event is absolutely open to the public, people who do not have a team will just get matched up with others in a similar position, Gilman Brewing, 912 Gilman Street, Berkeley, a fundraiser for Litquake, $25, 6:00 pm (www.eventbrite.com/e/litquake-literary-pub-trivia-the-sequel-tickets-1342787165559?aff=oddtdtcreator)
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15 JULY 2025 — tuesday

• Jackie Thomas-Kennedy reads from her new novel, The Other Wife, joined in conversation by Carol Edgarian, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
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16 JULY 2025 — wednesday

• City Lights and NYU Press celebrate the publication of Get It Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy, by Andréa Becker, in conversation with writer and critic, Moira Donegan, Zoom, free, 6:00 pm (www.eventbrite.com/e/andrea-becker-in-conversation-with-moira-donegan-tickets-1343850134929?aff=oddtdtcreator)
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• Crystal Haryanto presents her new book, The Glory of Giving Everything: The Taylor Swift Business Model, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
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17 JULY 2025 — thursday

• City Lights and Shakespeare and Company, a bookstore in Paris, celebrate the publication of The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews, edited by Adam Biles, he will be in conversation with Sylvia Whitman, the proprietor of Shakespeare and Company, and Peter Maravelis, Events Director at City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, Zoom, free, Noon (citylights.com/events/adam-biles-sylvia-whitman-in-conversation-with-peter-maravelis)
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• Poetry Night Reading Series presents Dane Cervine, Nine Volt Nirvana, and Adela Najarro, with host Dr. Andy Jones, air-conditioned venue, John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street, Davis, 7:00 (www.poetryindavis.com)
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• Poets Molly Fisk and Kim Shuck present poems from varied perspectives about wildfire, flooding and related catastrophes in California from the California Fire & Water anthology; they will be joined by six other contributors to the anthology, Gene Berson, Heather Bourbeau, Aileen Cassinetto, Susan Cohen, Alison Luterman, and Maw Shein Win, California Fire & Water anthology, San Francisco Main Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Room, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 (415/557-4400, on.sfpl.org/07-17-25)
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• City Lights and Verso Books celebrate the publication of EVERYTHING IS NOW: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde–Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop, this groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from J. Hoberman, the legendary writer on art and film, Zoom, free, 6:00 pm (www.eventbrite.com/e/j-hoberman-tickets-1295155518019?aff=oddtdtcreator)
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• Miranda S. Spivack reads from her new book, Backroom Deals in Our Backyards, a groundbreaking look at how ordinary people are fighting back against local governments to keep their communities safe, joined in conversation by Victoria Baranetsky, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
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18 JULY 2025 — friday

• Community Open Mic featuring 826LA students, the culminating event of 826LS's Summer Writers Workshop, emcee Ariadne Makridakis Arroyo, all participants have five minutes to share, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, doors open 7:00, reading 7:30 (www.eventbrite.com/e/826la-beyond-baroque-present-community-open-mic-tickets-1397352441769?aff=oddtdtcreator)
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19 JULY 2025 — saturday

• City Lights and PM Press celebrate the publication of Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues: Selected Writings on Popular Culture, with the editors Abigail Susik and Paul Buhle, the book is a collection of Franklin Rosemont's writings on popular culture over a period of more than forty years, Zoom, free, Noon (citylights.com/events/abigail-susik-and-paul-buhle)
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• Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show presents a poetry reading by Louise Yost and Jonathan Livingston, with host Dotty LeMieux, Novato Library, 1720 Novato Blvd., Novato, free, 2:00 (marinpoetrycenter.org/mec-events-category/traveling-show)
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20 JULY 2025 — sunday

• Roberto Tejada, Why the Assembly Disbanded, celebrates the release of his new poetry collection, Carbonate of Copper: Poems, with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest Gander, Mojave Ghost, limited seating, Kerouac Alley, between City Lights Bookstore and Vesuvio Cafe, 257 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 1:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/forrest-gander-with-roberto-tejada)
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• Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading featuring Rachel Richardson, Smother, and Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Mothersalt, 2727 California Street, a Cooperative Art Gallery, Berkeley, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).
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21 JULY 2025 — monday

• Blue Light Press presents "Eleven Poets from the Blue Light Press Summer Workshop," a poetry reading by Barbara Saxton, Mylo Schaaf, Susanna Praetzel, MJ Moore, Nancy Lee Melmon, Melissa Hobbs, Jennifer Grant, Robin Gabbert, Kay Barnes, Pat Barone, and Diane Frank, Society of Artists Gallery, 1513 3rd Street (at E Street), San Rafael, free, 6:00 pm (www.bluelightpress.com/events.php)
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22 JULY 2025 — tuesday

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23 JULY 2025 — wednesday

• Bridget A. Lyons reads from and presents her new book, Entwined: Dispatches from the Intersection of Species, joined in conversation by Leigh Marz, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
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24 JULY 2025 — thursday

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25 JULY 2025 — friday

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26 JULY 2025 — saturday

• Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library presents Karen Greenbaum-Maya and Diosa Xochiquetzalcóatl, Claremont Helen Renwick Library, 208 N. Harvard Avenue, in the Claremont Village, Claremont, free, 2:00 (909/621-4902, www.claremontlibrary.org/monthly-poetry-readings.html)
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• The Bay Area Book Festival and Litquake present "Narrating the Mother," an intimate (virtual) conversation with Iman Mersal and Kate Briggs, two writers who reshape our understanding of motherhood and the art of living, moderated by Sri Lankan American novelist Nayomi Munaweera, Gilman Brewing, 912 Gilman Street, Berkeley, free, 10:00 am-11:00 am (www.eventbrite.com/e/narrating-the-mother-tickets-1328737101439)
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• Sacramento Poetry Alliance presents the VOICES reading with Cold River Press, 1169 Perkins Way, Sacramento, refreshments, 4:00 (see Sacramento Poetry Alliance on Facebook)
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• Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show presents a poetry reading by Judy Wells, Dale Jensen, Carol Dorf, LeeAnn Pickrell, and Judy Bertelsen, with host Kathryn Jordan, North Branch of the Berkeley Public Library,1170 The Alameda (at Hopkins), Berkeley, free, 2:00 (marinpoetrycenter.org/mec-events-category/traveling-show)
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27 JULY 2025 — sunday

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28 JULY 2025 — monday

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29 JULY 2025 — tuesday

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30 JULY 2025 — wednesday

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31 JULY 2025 — thursday

• "The Jingwei Bird" is a program that explores the complexity of climate change and our relationship to the planet through multi-disciplinary performances with Del Sol Quartet and San Francisco poet laureate Genny Lim, weaving newly composed music by Asian-American composers with powerful bilingual poetry, using storytelling and mythology to deepen our understanding and awareness of the environment, San Francisco Main Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Room, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 (415/557-4400, on.sfpl.org/07-31-25)
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