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John Shoptaw

John Shoptaw and Armen Davoudian

10 NOVEMBER 2024 — sunday

Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading featuring Armen Davoudian, The Palace of Forty Pillars, and John Shoptaw, Near-Earth Object, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PST (poetryflash.org).


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MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Armen Davoudian's debut poetry collection is The Palace of Forty Pillars. Peter Balakian says, "Armen Davoudian transforms his Iranian childhood with Proustian sensuality. His images embody a psychological web of forces that shape the self as it accrues the complexities of experience. His cosmopolitan voice spans time and space and literary traditions. The echo chamber of his language will stay with you." Davoudian's chapbook, Swan Song, won the Frost Place Competition. He's also translator, from the Persian, of Hopscotch by Fatemeh Shams. His poems and translations from Persian have appeared in AGNI, The Sewanee Review, Narrative, Poetry magazine, Hopkins Review, Yale Review, and elsewhere. He grew up in Isfahan, Iran, and is a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University.
John Shoptaw's new book of poems is Near-Earth Object, with a Foreword by Jenny Odell. David Baker says, "Shoptaw's poetry is part memory and part typology, as he sorts the 'blue springs' from the 'apple moonshine,' shaping his work into quantitative syllabics (à la Marianne Moore) or, by turns, into natural-flowing free verse. His deeper imperative, though—spiritual, aesthetic, and cultural—is to speak on behalf of a bruised ecosystem.…" Shoptaw's previous books and works include Times Beach, winner of the Notre Dame Book Review Book Prize and the Northern California Book Award; On the Outside Looking Out: John Ashbery's Poetry; and Our American Cousin, an opera libretto. His writing has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Arion, Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, and elsewhere. He teaches in the UC Berkeley English Department.




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  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Janée J. Baugher, The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles, with poet and psychoanalyst Alice Jones, Cadence of Vanishing, a memoir, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm (poetryflash.org).

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  • Skylight Books welcomes Mary H.K. Choi presenting Pool House, in conversation with writer and podcast host Yasi Salek, Skylight Books, 1818 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 pm (RSVP recommended: www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-mary-hk-choi-presents-pool-house-w-yasi-salek)
  • San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck and special guests present at SFPL's Monthly poetry reading, Poem Jam, the Main Library's poetry reading series takes place on the second Thursday of each month, unless otherwise noted, San Francisco Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Room, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 pm (on.sfpl.org/06-11-26)

12 JUNE 2026 — friday

  • Indigenous Voices Literary Series presents Elise Paschen, Osage author of Blood Wolf Moon, poems, in conversation with Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate Emerita and the event curator; Paschen will read her poems and share stories about her famous mother, prima ballerina Maria Tallchief, travels in Europe, and Osage culture; the film Killers of the Flower Moon takes its title from Paschen's poem "Wi'-gi-e," which references late springtime frosts in the Osage lunar cycle; Paschen is the former Director of The Poetry Society of America, raised in Chicago, she returns to Oklahoma's Osage reservation for annual dances; The 222 Series in the Paul Mahder Gallery, 222 Healdsburg Avenue, Healdsburg, $20, 7:00 pm (For more information, contact Erin Partridge, 707-473-9150, the222.org/product/indigenous-voices-series-elise-paschen)
  • Skylight Books welcomes UC Riverside MFA Program presenting a night of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction celebrating graduating Creative Writing students, Skylight Books, 1818 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 6:30 pm (RSVP recommended: www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-uc-riverside-mfa-reading-0)

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  • Fourth Saturdays Poetry at the Claremont Library presents a reading by Nancy Lynée Woo, poet and teaching artist, and Ron Koertge, Pandora's Kitchen: Poems, award-winning poet and young adult novelist, Helen Renwick Library, 208 North Harvard Avenue, Claremont, free, 2:00 pm (www.claremontlibrary.org/monthly-poetry-readings.html)

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