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Jan Beatty

Kim Addonizio, Jan Beatty, Brittany Perham

10 OCTOBER 2024 — thursday

Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Jan Beatty, Dragstripping, Kim Addonizio, Exit Opera, and Brittany Perham, Double Portrait, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 7:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).


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MORE ABOUT THE READERS

Jan Beatty's new book of poems is Dragstripping. Sandra Cisneros says, "Jan Beatty writes at full throttle, a plunge into the self without flinching. These poems are highways, the finish lines smoking with 'the truth that drags and bitters.' Stories stripped raw. Brave, honest, death-defying, Beatty's poetry roars." Her previous poetry collections include The Body Wars, Jackknife: New and Selected Poems, which won the Paterson Poetry Prize, and The Switching/Yard, among others. Her memoir, American Bastard, won the Red Hen Nonfiction Prize. Jan Beatty has worked as a waitress, in abortion clinics, and in maximum-security prisons, and is professor emerita at Carlow University, where she directed the MFA and creative writing programs and the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops.

Kim Addonizio's new book of poems is Exit Opera. Booklist said of her work, "Addonizio's poems are like swallows of cold, grassy white wine. They go down easy and then, moments later, you feel the full weight of their impact.…A smoky-voiced chanteuse, she sings the blues of lost youth and past wildness, protesting the assaults of age, the void left by a grown child and a deceased father, and the sorrows of loved ones battling disease. High heels and hangovers, horror movies and empty hotel rooms, regrets and resignation, elements all in Addonizio's articulation of lust, the quest for oblivion, and the body's unrelenting archiving of every pleasure and pain.…" Her previous collections include Now We're Getting Somewhere, Tell Me, a finalist for the National Book Award, Mortal Trash, and Wild Nights. She has also published two novels, two story collections, two craft books on writing, The Poet's Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius, and a memoir, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life. Her awards include fellowships from the NEA, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and two Pushcart Prizes, among other honors. She teaches privately online, and at conferences and workshops internationally.

Brittany Perham's most recent collection, Double Portrait, was selected by Claudia Rankine for the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Donna Masini says, "Doubling back or spiraling around, incantatory, off-kilter, more song than story, the gorgeously obsessive poems in Double Portrait reflect the ways in which we are sprung into, or thrown off, orbit by desire, grief, sex, love—or simply facing the puzzle of another…[A] smart, surprising, and compelling new collection." Her previous collections include The Curiosities, and a chapbook with Kim Addonizio, The Night Could Go in Either Direction. Her work has received support from Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, James Merrill House Foundation, University of Kentucky Mill House Residency Program, Vermont Studio Center, Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program, and Yaddo. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco.




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1 JULY 2025 — tuesday

2 JULY 2025 — wednesday

3 JULY 2025 — thursday

  • Poetry Night open mic for poems, stories, and songs, air-conditioned venue, please limit your reading to two items or four minutes, whichever is shorter, with host Dr. Andy Jones, John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street, Davis, 7:00 (www.poetryindavis.com)

4 JULY 2025 — friday

5 JULY 2025 — saturday

6 JULY 2025 — sunday

7 JULY 2025 — monday

8 JULY 2025 — tuesday

  • Award-winning author and paramedic Joanna Sokol reads from her new book, A Real Emergency: Stories From the Ambulance, joined in conversation by Kevin Fagan, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)

9 JULY 2025 — wednesday

10 JULY 2025 — thursday

  • Poem Jam: Kim Shuck, San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita presents contributing poets reading from their new anthology, Colossus: Water, Poem Jam takes place on the second Thursday of each month unless otherwise noted, San Francisco Main Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Room, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 (415/557-4400, on.sfpl.org/07-10-25)

11 JULY 2025 — friday

12 JULY 2025 — saturday

13 JULY 2025 — sunday

14 JULY 2025 — monday

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)

16 JULY 2025 — wednesday

  • 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)

17 JULY 2025 — thursday

  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)

18 JULY 2025 — friday

19 JULY 2025 — saturday

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)
  • 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).

21 JULY 2025 — monday

22 JULY 2025 — tuesday

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)

24 JULY 2025 — thursday

25 JULY 2025 — friday

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)
  • Sacramento Poetry Alliance presents the VOICES reading with Cold River Press, 1169 Perkins Way, Sacramento, refreshments, 4:00 (see Sacramento Poetry Alliance on Facebook)
  • 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)

27 JULY 2025 — sunday

28 JULY 2025 — monday

29 JULY 2025 — tuesday

30 JULY 2025 — wednesday

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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