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9 JANUARY 2025 — thursday

• This poetry reading "Alma de mi Alma, Soul of my Soul Poetry Night" will honor a year of Palestinian resistance, featured poets and musicians tba, Medicine for Nightmares, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: medicinefornightmares.com/events/alma-de-mi-alma-soul-of-my-soul-poetry-nightenero-zapatista-2025)
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• "Free Verse, Lyric Poetry and Narrative Poetry" workshop takes place over five Thursday sessions (January 9, 16, 23, 30 and February 6) and covers the differences between free verse, lyric poetry, and narrative poetry, with techniques to write original poems, led by 2020 San Diego Poet Laureate Ron Salisbury, online, $270-$315, 6:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: writeyourstorynow.org)
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• Poet Tyler Cain Lacey will read and discuss his new poetry collection, In Memory of James Wright, Whose Poem I Ate, and fiction author Colin Winnette will discuss his new book, Gainesville, Books on the Park on 9th Avenue, 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, Also online, Free, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: greenapplebooks.com/event/2025-01-09/9th-ave-tyler-cain-lacy-and-colin-winnette)
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10 JANUARY 2025 — friday

• Blue Light at the Gallery presents poets Anna Papadopoulos, Safety Trip, Barbara Saxton, De-Classified, and Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, Her Face in the Fire, in a reading presented by Blue Light Press, Virtual on Zoom, 6:00 pm PST (For more information, or to RSVP, email: bluelightpress@aol.com)
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11 JANUARY 2025 — saturday

• "Whether You Fly: An Ekphrastic Poetry Project," presents poets responding to paintings by visual artist Julie Heffernan; curated by Annice Jacoby and Maw Shein Win, the poets responding are Adrian Arias, James Cagney, Jennifer Futernick, Heather June Gibbons, and Yiskah Rosenfeld, the poets will share their work and sign books, art cards featuring the poems and paintings will be available, Catharine Clark Gallery, 248 Utah Street, San Francisco, $5 includes a commemorative art postcard specifically designed for this event, 4:00 to 6:00 pm PST, readings begin at 4:30 (For more information, visit: cclarkgallery.com/events/32/overview)
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12 JANUARY 2025 — sunday

• Ventura County's new Poet Laureate Mary Ann McFadden, Eye of the Blackbird, will be inaugurated and a reception will follow, Museum of Ventura County, 100 East Main Street, Ventura, 2:00 pm PST (More information at: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=566563682891103&set=a.109703321910477)
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13 JANUARY 2025 — monday

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14 JANUARY 2025 — tuesday

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15 JANUARY 2025 — wednesday

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16 JANUARY 2025 — thursday

• Poet Cecilia Woloch reads from her latest poetry collection, Labor: The Testimony of Ted Gall, an extended poem in the voice of coal miner and activist Ted Gall, with poet Harry Northup, Love Poem to MPTF, and will feature a multimedia performance that includes archival images and musical interludes, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, 8:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/la-book-launch-labor-the-testimony-of-ted-gall-by-cecilia-woloch-tickets-1112061067589?aff=oddtdtcreator)
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17 JANUARY 2025 — friday

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18 JANUARY 2025 — saturday

• Craft ekphrastic poetry based on art in the ACCI Gallery and then participate in workshop, led by Aiden Baker, ACCI Gallery, 652 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, by donation, 1:00 pm PST (To rsvp, visit: www.accigallery.com/rsvp-poetry-writing-workshop.html)
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• The four members of the Wild Orchid Collective, a Los Angeles interdisciplinary artist group, share their music, poetry, and visual art in a one-hour program titled "Gathered Dreams," interweaving readings of poems with the dream-like photographic imagery of Holaday Mason, paintings by James Cushing and Celeste Goyer, and music by composer/musician Adrian Baer, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, free, 6:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/gathered-dreams-poetry-art-music-from-the-wild-orchid-collective-tickets-1114289392569?aff=oddtdtcreator%C2%A0)
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19 JANUARY 2025 — sunday

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20 JANUARY 2025 — monday

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21 JANUARY 2025 — tuesday

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22 JANUARY 2025 — wednesday

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23 JANUARY 2025 — thursday

• The Community of Writers welcomes writers of all genres for a four-week course (ongoing Thursdays, January 23 to February, 2025) on the poetry of Lucille Clifton, led by Kazim Ali, The Far Mosque, virtual on Zoom, starting at $235, 4:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: communityofwriters.org/more-on-the-poetry-and-poetics-of-lucille-clifton)
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24 JANUARY 2025 — friday

• Fiction author Nancy Miller Gomez, Inconsolable Objects, poet Lynne V.E. Crawford, Washing Water, and 2021-2022 Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson, Blue on a Blue Palette, read from and celebrate their latest books, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, 8:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/nancy-miller-gomez-lynda-ve-crawford-lynne-thompson-tickets-1118331051279?aff=oddtdtcreator)
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25 JANUARY 2025 — saturday

• Mobile Data Mag, a literary journal released exclusively on Substack, will feature five Los Angeles-based poets for an in-person reading: Pam Concepcion, Daryl Gussin, Jennifer "Miss B' Baptiste, Mauricio "Soul on Fire" Moreno, and Laura Sermeño, hosted by lead editor and author, Jesse Tovar, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, 1:30 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/mobile-data-mag-a-reading-with-la-authors-tickets-1104979145369?aff=oddtdtcreator)
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26 JANUARY 2025 — sunday

• The Laminations: An Experimental Fiction Workshop, will occur over four Sundays (January 26, February 9, 23, March 9), exploring how to manage layers of formal complexity with plot complexity, and when these laminations overload and opacify the truth, led by Angie Sijun Lou, fiction editor at FENCE, Virtual on Zoom, sliding scale $60-200, 1:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.smallpresstraffic.org/event/laminations-experimental-fiction-workshop)
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27 JANUARY 2025 — monday

• City Lights Live! presents novelist Craig Clevenger, Dermaphoria, in conversation with Claire Phillips, Black Market Babies, in celebration of the re-publication of his novel, The Contortionist's Handbook, online only, free, 7:00 pm PST (For more information,register at: www.eventbrite.com/e/craig-clevenger-in-conversation-with-claire-phillips-tickets-1076168441779?aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail&ref=eemail&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eventbrite)
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28 JANUARY 2025 — tuesday

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29 JANUARY 2025 — wednesday

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30 JANUARY 2025 — thursday

• Former City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood Kim Dower will read from and discuss her latest poetry collection, What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria, with poet Blas Falconer, Rara Avis, Warwick's, 7812 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, free, 7:30 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.warwicks.com/event/dower-2025)
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• Writers Read Ukiah presents a reading by Chris Olander, Nevada County Poet Laureate emeritus, Open Mic follows the featured poet with six-minute slots for each participant, Grace Hudson Museum, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, free, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.gracehudsonmuseum.org/new-events)
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31 JANUARY 2025 — friday

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