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25 JUNE 2021 — friday

  • Green Apple Books presents poet and essayist Jenny Bitner, reading from and discussing her debut novel, Here is a Game We Could Play, a story set in Pennsylvania in the 1990s that follows a woman who, stuck in the rundown industrial town where she grew up, turns to fantasy and books to escape the darker memories of her past, free, online via Zoom, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.greenapplebooks.com/event/virtual-event-jenny-bitner)
  • Junior High, Not a Cult, and Skylight Books present poet and former Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles Rhiannon McGavin reading from and discussing her new book, Grocery List Poems, free, held at Junior High, Inc.'s outdoor venue at 603 South Brand Boulevard, Glendale, California, 6:30 pm PDT (More information here: juniorhighlosangeles.com/calendar/rhiannonmcgavin)

26 JUNE 2021 — saturday

  • The Richmond Literary Arts Center presents a reading featuring poet and translator Katie Farris, boysgirls, and acclaimed poet Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa, open mic to follow, free, online, Noon PDT (RSVP: roblipton@gmail.com for the Zoom link)
  • Join poet Alice Pero, Thawed Stars, and artist Vera Campion for the launch of their new book, Beyond Birds and Answers, a dialogue of poetry and collages, free, donations welcome, online, 2:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: tinyurl.com/ckjt9uh6)
  • The Sacramento Poetry Alliance presents novelist and short story writer Bill Pieper, Forgive Me, Father, Belonging, reading from his new collection, Borders and Boundaries, hosted by poet Tim Kahl, Sacramento Poetry Alliance, 1169 Perkins Way, Sacramento, free, 7:30 pm PDT (More information here: www.facebook.com/events/315435636893970)

27 JUNE 2021 — sunday

  • California Poets in the Schools presents a virtual open mic reading, featuring CalPoets's Poet-Teachers Claire Blotter, Moment in the Moment House, and Ernesto M. Garay, Reverberating Voices, with open mic to follow, hosted by Susan Terence, California Poets in the Schools San Francisco Area Coordinator, free, donations welcome, online via Zoom, 7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend or to read at the open mic: www.californiapoets.org/events/virtual-open-mic-4)
  • San Diego Writers, Ink presents "The Poems of Charles Bukowski," a workshop led by poet and owner of Vault Publishing, Sunny Rey, Quotes and Poems by a Nobody, and poet and spoken word artist Anthony Azzarito, $36 members, $42 nonmembers, online, 10:00 am-Noon PDT (Enroll here: www.sandiegowriters.org/poems-of-charles-bukowski-sunny-rey)
  • Avenue 50 Studio presents the La Palabra Poetry Reading, featuring poets Lisbeth Coiman, Uprising/Alzamiento, jo reyes-boitel, mouth, and Donna Spruijt-Metz, hosted by poet and educator Angelina Sáenz, free, online via Zoom, number 881 0616 8718, 2:00 pm PDT (More information here: avenue50studio.org/la-palabra)
  • Sixteen Rivers Press presents a poetry reading featuring Anne Marie Macari, Heaven Beneath, Red Deer, and Julia B. Levine, Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight, winner of the Northern California Book Award for Poetry, hosted by poet Eliot Schain, part of the Sixteen Rivers Presents reading series, free, online via Zoom, 3:00 pm PDT (Zoom link here: sixteenrivers.org/sixteen-rivers-presents-anne-marie-macari-and-julia-b-levine)
  • The Claremont Library presents a reading featuring poets Romaine Washington, Purgatory Has an Address and Sirens in Her Belly, and Anna Leahy, What Happened Was, Aperture, part of the Fourth Sundays reading series, free, online via Facebook Live, 2:00 pm PDT (RSVP to attend: www.facebook.com/fourthsundayspoetry)
  • The Mechanics' Institute, in conjunction with Arion Press, celebrate Arion Press's broadside of poet and translator Chun Yu's poem "The Map," with a poetry reading by Yu, followed by a conversation between Yu and poet Michael Warr, Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin; this event co-presented by the Two Languages/One Community project, free, both online via Zoom and in-person at Arion Press, 1802 Hays Street, San Francisco, 3:00-5:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.milibrary.org/events/events-activities)

28 JUNE 2021 — monday

29 JUNE 2021 — tuesday

  • Green Apple Books presents novelist Rivka Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances and Little Labours, reading from and discussing her new novel, Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch, in conversation with novelist Paul La Forge, The Night Ocean, free, online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.greenapplebooks.com/event/virtual-event-rivka-galchen-and-paul-la-farge)
  • City Lights Books presents poet and playwright Camille Roy discussing her new book, Honey Mine, a collection of short fiction exploring coming of age in Chicago's South Side and youth in the lesbian underground, in conversation with poet and writer Eileen Myles, Chelsea Girls, free, online, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=books_events)
  • Cobalt Poets presents a reading featuring poet Sharon Smith-Knight, Wine-Sip and Other Delicious Poems, open mic to follow, free, online via Zoom, 7:30 pm PDT (Zoom link here: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)

30 JUNE 2021 — wednesday

  • Point Reyes Books presents essayist Gillian Osborne reading from and discussing her new book, Green Green Green, a collection of essays exploring history, horticulture, and the green world, free, online, 6:00 pm PDT (RSVP to attend: www.ptreyesbooks.com/event/gillian-osborne)
  • City Lights Books presents novelist and essayist Kate Zambreno, Drifts, Appendix Project, discussing her new book To Write as if Already Dead, part novella, part study, exploring friendship, language, identity, and bodies against the backdrop of French writer Hervé Guibert's novel, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, in conversation with writer T Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through, free, online via Zoom, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=books_events)

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