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Lee Rossi and Lenore Weiss

3 AUGUST 2025 — sunday

Poetry Flash presents a reading featuring Lee Rossi, Say Anything, poems, and Lenore Weiss, Video Game Pointers, poems, and Pulp into Paper, a novel, 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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MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Lee Rossi's new book of poems is Say Anything. Gerald Fleming says, "Lee Rossi's previous books have been, in part, a progressive chronicle of his life, his dialectic with God, and our common joys & flawed humanity. This new book, Say Anything, takes it further, varying dictions—sometimes Bukowski-esque without the crassness, sometimes riffing on Christopher Smart, sometimes like Creeley in thin, taut lines, still other times in prose poems. Rossi continues his exploration of the self and its foibles inside a new progression—this time, a reckoning with mortality." The previous books mentioned above include Darwin's Garden, Wheelchair Samurai, and Ghost Diary. Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, he studied five years for the Roman Catholic priesthood before devoting himself, as he says, to the study of failure. Published in journals including Poetry Northwest, Harvard Review, Main Street Rag, and many others, he has also appeared in anthologies, including Don't Leave Hungry: 50 Years of Southern Review and Grand Passion: The Poetry of Los Angeles and Beyond. He's a Contributing Editor for Poetry Flash.
Lenore Weiss's new book of poetry is Video Game Pointers. Genero Ky Ly Smith says, "These poems form a beautiful blunt balance between nostalgia and a reconciliation, a reckoning of human struggles and our appreciation for nature, and our personal relationship with others." Her previous collections include Cutting Down the Last Tree in Easter Island and The Golem: Poems of Love, Loss, and Being Mortal. Her poems have been widely published in The American Poetry Journal, Portland Review, New Verse News, Spillwords, Tiger's Eye, and elsewhere. She's also recently published Pulp into Paper, about which Leslie Kirk Campbell says, "Pulp into Paper is an engaging, disturbing and sometimes humorous novel exposing a calcified network of corruption between a company (Rand-Atlantic) and the government (EPA) in a small Southern town where 'the stink [is] the smell of money.' Weiss's talent for detail is extraordinary as she takes us into the homes, sandwich shops and hydrogen-sulfide infested creeks of East Hentsbury with its unforgettable cast of characters."

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19 JULY 2025 — saturday

City Lights and PM Press celebrate the publication of Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues: Selected Writings on Popular Culture, with the editors Abigail Susik and Paul Buhle, the book is a collection of Franklin Rosemont's writings on popular culture over a period of more than forty years, Zoom, free, Noon (citylights.com/events/abigail-susik-and-paul-buhle)
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Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show presents a poetry reading by Louise Yost and Jonathan Livingston, with host Dotty LeMieux, Novato Library, 1720 Novato Blvd., Novato, free, 2:00 (marinpoetrycenter.org/mec-events-category/traveling-show)
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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)
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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).
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21 JULY 2025 — monday

Blue Light Press presents "Eleven Poets from the Blue Light Press Summer Workshop," a poetry reading by Barbara Saxton, Mylo Schaaf, Susanna Praetzel, MJ Moore, Nancy Lee Melmon, Melissa Hobbs, Jennifer Grant, Robin Gabbert, Kay Barnes, Pat Barone, and Diane Frank, Society of Artists Gallery, 1513 3rd Street (at E Street), San Rafael, free, 6:00 pm (www.bluelightpress.com/events.php)
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22 JULY 2025 — tuesday

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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)
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24 JULY 2025 — thursday

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25 JULY 2025 — friday

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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)
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The Bay Area Book Festival and Litquake present "Narrating the Mother," an intimate (virtual) conversation with Iman Mersal and Kate Briggs, two writers who reshape our understanding of motherhood and the art of living, moderated by Sri Lankan American novelist Nayomi Munaweera, Gilman Brewing, 912 Gilman Street, Berkeley, free, 10:00 am-11:00 am (www.eventbrite.com/e/narrating-the-mother-tickets-1328737101439)
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Sacramento Poetry Alliance presents the VOICES reading with Cold River Press, 1169 Perkins Way, Sacramento, refreshments, 4:00 (see Sacramento Poetry Alliance on Facebook)
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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)
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27 JULY 2025 — sunday

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28 JULY 2025 — monday

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29 JULY 2025 — tuesday

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30 JULY 2025 — wednesday

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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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