Dane Cervine, Carolyn Miller, Lenore Myers 3/29, Berkeley more info
Molly Fisk and Francesca Bell 5/17, Berkeley more info
Valentine's Day: Dr. Jennifer Abod, Nancy Beverly, Dr. Carol Bliss, Kimberly Esslinger, more
2 FEBRUARY 2025 — sunday
In this queer Valentine's Day poetry special, lesbian poets and writers Dr. Jennifer Abod, Nancy Beverly, Dr. Carol Bliss, Kimberly Esslinger, Mary Giuliani, and Bri Stokes discuss healing the heart and beyond, Page Against The Machine, 2714 East 4th Street, Long Beach, 4:30 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.facebook.com/events/2274592266230082)
City Lights and Litquake co-present Hannah Lillith Assadi reading from and celebrating the publication of her new book, Paradiso 17: A Novel, in conversation with memoirist and novelist Ingrid Rojas Contreras, in-store, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 pm (citylights.com/events/hannah-lillith-assadi)
Poetry Flash presents a Sixteen Rivers Press Book Launch poetry reading by Dane Cervine, Children of Obscura: This Mysterious Human, Carolyn Miller, Random Universe, and Lenore Myers, Afterimages, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).
University of San Francisco's MFA Writing Program Reading Series hosts poet Derrick Austin, reading from This Elegance, his forthcoming collection, he is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a Cave Canem Fellow, USFCA's McLaren Complex 252, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, free, 7:45 pm (www.usfca.edu/event/mfa-writing-program-reading-series-derrick-austin/13057164)