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2 MAY 2025 — friday

• Poet Film Stage, a night of poetry with moving images beyond the page and dynamic performances by multi-talented Los Angeles authors features Phil Abrams, Michelle Bitting, Brendan Constantine, Nicelle Davis, Kathleen Florence, Rich Ferguson, S.A. Griffin, Susan Hayden, Eric Morago, Harry E. Northup, abbi page, Jeremy Ra, Amy Raasch, David A. Romero, Lynne Thompson and jimmy vega, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, Los Angeles, $12, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/poet-film-stage-tickets-1295206370119?aff=oddtdtcreator)
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3 MAY 2025 — saturday

• Beyond Baroque celebrates three recently published poetry collections and forthcoming works: Once When Green by Mark Irwin, Moving the Bones by Rick Barot, and Matthew Gellman's debut collection, Beforelight, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, from $12, 6:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-celebration-of-new-poetry-mark-irwin-rick-barot-matthew-gellman-tickets-1319438298469)
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4 MAY 2025 — sunday

• Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading featuring Gloria Frym, Lies & More Lies, and Maxine Chernoff, Light and Clay: New and Selected Poems, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).
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5 MAY 2025 — monday

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6 MAY 2025 — tuesday

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7 MAY 2025 — wednesday

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8 MAY 2025 — thursday

• Nonfiction author Sarah Schulman reads from her book, The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity, in which Schulman challenges the traditional notion of solidarity as a simple union of equals, arguing that in today's world of globalized power structures, true solidarity requires the collaboration of bystanders and conflicted perpetrators with the excluded and oppressed, both onsite and online, see website for Zoom registration, City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/sarah-schulman)
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9 MAY 2025 — friday

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10 MAY 2025 — saturday

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11 MAY 2025 — sunday

• Poetry reading by Stephen Ratcliffe, w i n d o w, author of more than twenty-five books of poetry, and Norman Fischer, poet, essayist, and Soto Zen Buddhist priest, at a private home in the north Berkeley hills, seating is limited, there is an admission, 5:00 pm PDT (For more information, including the location, email the event host at: Harry@fullplatemedia.com)
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12 MAY 2025 — monday

• Poet, translator, and teacher Arthur Sze celebrates two new books, Into the Hush and The White Orchard: Selected Interviews, Essays, and Poems, with lyric poet Carol Moldaw, Go Figure, both onsite and online, see website for Zoom registration, City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/arthur-sze-with-carol-moldaw)
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13 MAY 2025 — tuesday

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14 MAY 2025 — wednesday

• The Blue Whale Reading Series presents a poetry reading by Mary Kay Rummel, Little River of Amazements, former Poet Laureate of Ventura County, and poet and fiction writer Susan Chiavelli, open mic follows, second Wednesday of each month, Unity of Santa Barbara Chapel, 227 East Arrellaga Street, Santa Barbara, free, 5:30 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.facebook.com/groups/sbpoetrymonth)
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15 MAY 2025 — thursday

• San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck celebrates non-English poetry by inviting Clara Hsu, Preeti Vangani, Keana Aguila Labra and special guests to read at SFPL's monthly poetry reading, the Main Library's Poem Jam 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 PDT (415/557-4400, on.sfpl.org/05-15-25)
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16 MAY 2025 — friday

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17 MAY 2025 — saturday

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18 MAY 2025 — sunday

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19 MAY 2025 — monday

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20 MAY 2025 — tuesday

• Shelby Van Pelt discussed her debut novel, Remarkably Bright Creatures, which traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus, with novelist and short story writer Karen Joy Fowler, We are all completely beside ourselves, Kepler's Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.keplers.org/upcoming-events-internal/shelby-van-pelt)
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21 MAY 2025 — wednesday

• Ron Chernow, whose novel Alexander Hamilton was adapted into the Broadway play Hamilton, will discuss his book, Mark Twain, in conversation with Jonathan Bass, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $80, 7:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.cityarts.net/event/ron-chernow)
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• The ZYZZYVA Issue 129 Celebration and 40th Anniversary Kick-off, Issue 129 contributors reading include Katherine Franco, writer and futurist Dominica Phetteplace, fiction novelist Marian Palaia, and poet D.A. Powell, emceed by ZYZZYVA Editor Oscar Villalon, limited seating, Kerouac Alley, between City Lights Bookstore and Vesuvio Cafe, 257 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/zyzzyva-issue-129-celebration-40th-anniversary-kick-off)
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22 MAY 2025 — thursday

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23 MAY 2025 — friday

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24 MAY 2025 — saturday

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25 MAY 2025 — sunday

• Michelle Tea celebrates the release of Witch: Anthology, which she edited, with readings and rituals featuring Lily Burana, Kathe Izzo, Molly Larkey, Shelley Marlow, Brooke Palmieri, Mia Tsang, and Sarah Yanni, limited seating; Secret location will be emailed to you after registration, San Francisco, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/michelle-tea-and-friends)
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26 MAY 2025 — monday

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27 MAY 2025 — tuesday

• Director, actor, essayist, playwright and screenwriter Ralph Remington reads from his book, Penetrating Whiteness: What Racism Really Is and What We Can Do About It, both onsite and online, see website for Zoom registration, City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/ralph-remington)
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28 MAY 2025 — wednesday

• Nonfiction author Sophie Lewis reads from her book, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation, both onsite and online, see website for Zoom registration, City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/sophie-lewis)
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29 MAY 2025 — thursday

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30 MAY 2025 — friday

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31 MAY 2025 — saturday

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