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Rosa Lane and Camille Norton

20 NOVEMBER 2025 — thursday

Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Rosa Lane, Called Back, 2025 Maine Literary Book Award-winner, and Camille Norton, A Folio for the Dark, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 7:00 pm PST (poetryflash.org).

Thank you for continuing to support Poetry Flash and our reading series. Rosa Lane's featured book will be available at the event and at bookshop.org/shop/poetryflash. Camille Norton's book is available at shop.sixteenrivers.org/products/a-folio-for-the-dark-by-camille-norton. This event will be posted on the Poetry Flash YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UClwdR-uPFNz7XxbBbLcnoEA.

MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Rosa Lane's new collection is Called Back, winner of the 2025 Maine Literary Book Award, a sequence of poems in queer conversation with Emily Dickinson. Henri Cole says, "What marvelous, feral, eccentric, sweetly erotic poems! Like a candle in a frosted window, they illuminate—with electrifying language—the shadows of human love." Her previous books include Chouteau's Chalk, Georgia Poetry Prize-winner; Tiller North, 2017 National Indie Excellence Award-winner; and Roots and Reckonings (chapbook). Her work was named Best of Poetry for the 2024 Geminga Prize, awarded the 2023 Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Prize, and selected as finalist for the 2023 Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition (Cork, Ireland). Lane's poems have appeared in Cloudbank, Cutthroat, Massachusetts Review, Nimrod, RHINO, Third Coast, and elsewhere.
Camille Norton's second collection of poems is A Folio for the Dark. Julia Levine says, "Camille Norton creates a deep and lush interior world where she is both reader and writer, young girl and sensual adult, herself and other. In these poems, which are as mysterious, brutal, and beautiful as truth, Norton writes her way into the lives of those she has read: Poe, Thomas Jefferson, Gertrude Stein, a Confederate prisoner, Herman Melville's whale, and the Old Testament's Jonah. Out of this empathic imagination, there emerges an alchemical voice of the multiple worlds that inhabit Norton's dynamic mind." Her first book, Corruption, was a 2004 National Poetry Series winner. Her work has appeared in Field, Plume, The Colorado Review, The Georgia Review, The American Poet, and The Best American Poetry. She is a frequent collaborator with visual artists and composers. She is a newly minted Professor Emerita at University of the Pacific.

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5 MAY 2026 — tuesday
City Lights presents Cinco De Mayo with ZYZZYVA, the legendary literary journal, celebrating Issue 132, with essayist Sarah Matsui, a 2025-2026 Steinbeck Fellow, and story writer Anita Felicelli, How We Know Our Time Travelers, drinks, eats, and a short reading hosted by ZYZZYVA editor Oscar Villalon, in-store, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 pm (citylights.com/events/zyzzyva-issue-132-cinco-de-mayo-celebration)
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6 MAY 2026 — wednesday
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7 MAY 2026 — thursday
UC Berkeley Library and the Lunch Poems series present Brandon Brown, Work and The Four Seasons, in a poetry reading, Morrison Library (inside Doe Library), 101 Library Ct., University of California Berkeley campus, free, 12:10 pm (www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/lunch-poems)
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City Lights and Graywolf Press present M Lin reading from The Memory Museum: Stories, and in conversation with novelist R.O. Kwon, Exhibit, both in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required for Zoom, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/m-lin-in-conversation-with-r-o-kwon-tickets-1979954865301?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/m-lin-in-conversation-with-r-o-kwon)
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14 MAY 2026 — thursday
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City Lights presents genre-busting poet and memoirist Eleni Sikelianos, reading from Memory Rehearsal, and in conversation with poet Matthew Zapruder, both in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required for Zoom, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/eleni-sikelianos-tickets-1979957203294?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/eleni-sikelianos-launch-party-for-memory-rehearsal)
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Book Society presents "A Taste of the Land: Stories & Realities of Farming," an evening of conversation and farm fresh flavors with Jennifer Acker, Surrender, Andy Naja-Riese, CEO of the Agricultural Institute of Marin, and Tamara Hicks, Feast on the Farm, owner of Tomula Farms, Book Society, 2945 College Avenue, Berkeley, $45, members $30, 6:00-8:00 pm (www.booksociety.social/event-details/a-taste-of-the-land-stories-realities-of-farming)
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Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Molly Fisk, Walking Wheel, a novel-in-verse, and poet and translator Francesca Bell, What Small Sound, 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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18 MAY 2026 — monday
City Lights and Alice James Books present award-winning poet Cole Swenson, reading from her new collection, Veer, both in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required for Zoom, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/cole-swenson-tickets-1979956665686?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/cole-swenson)
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City Lights and Verso Books present Trevor Paglen presenting his new book, How To See Like A Machine: Images After AI, on Zoom, free, registration required, 11:00 am PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/trevor-paglen-how-to-see-like-a-machine-images-after-ai-tickets-1982667454729?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/trevor-paglen-how-to-see-like-a-machine-images-after-ai)
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26 MAY 2026 — tuesday
City Lights and Human Rights First present Joshua Colangelo-Bryan discussing his new book, Through The Gates of Hell: American Injustice at Guatanamo Bay, in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/joshua-colangelo-bryan-through-the-gates-of-hell-tickets-1982668835860?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/joshua-colangelo-bryan-through-the-gates-of-hell-american-injustice-at-guatanamo-bay)
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27 MAY 2026 — wednesday
City Lights and Melville House present Jeremy Lent, presenting his new book, Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All, both in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required for Zoom, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/jeremy-lent-ecocivilization-making-a-world-that-works-for-all-tickets-1982670686395?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/jeremy-lent-ecocivilization-making-a-world-that-works-for-all)
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