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8 JUNE 2025 — sunday
- Berkeley Poetry Festival presents their annual Lifetime Achievement Award Celebration, honoring poet Maw Shein Win, with a poetry reading by Tongo Eisen-Martin and Tim Xonnelly, Berkeley Art Center, 1275 Walnut Street, Berkeley, free, 3:00-5:00 (www.berkeleypoetryfestival.com)
9 JUNE 2025 — monday
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11 JUNE 2025 — wednesday
12 JUNE 2025 — thursday
- Poetry Flash presents a reading by Susan Browne, Monster Mash, and Jeanne Wagner, One Needful Song, the 2024 Catamaran Poetry Prize-winner, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 7:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).
- Poetry reading and book launch celebration with Kit Robinson, Tunes & Tens, Carrie Hunter, The Flow of the Poem's Display of Itself, and James Sherry, Comin' 'Round: Selected Writings, works of poetry and prose 1970-2022, hosted by Steve Orth, at a community-supported art book library + work/performance space, Bathers Library, 2310 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, 7:00 (batherslibrary.cargo.site)
- San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck celebrates San Francisco Bay Area trans poets by inviting poets Natasha Dennerstein, Dena Rod, Lia le-Nguyen, Cadence Mc Cracken, Mercy Gray and special guests to read at SFPL's monthly poetry reading, the Main Library's Poem Jam poetry reading series takes place on the second Thursday of each month. unless otherwise noted, San Francisco Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Room, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 pm PDT (415/557-4400, on.sfpl.org/06-12-25)
13 JUNE 2025 — friday
14 JUNE 2025 — saturday
15 JUNE 2025 — sunday
- Celebrate Bloomsday with a new ballet by Danse Lumière inspired by James Joyce's Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and The Dead, a short story; the dance is also inspired by the author's relationships with Nora Barnacle and their daughter Lucia, featuring Max Barker, American Ballet Theatre Studio Company; with actors Russell Murphy and Howard Swain; choreography by Kathryn Roszak; St. Patrick's Room, United Irish Cultural Center, 2700 45th Avenue, San Francisco, purchase tickets on Eventbrite, $20, 2:00 pm PDT (For more information: 415/661-2700, irishcentersf.org/event/danse-lumiere-presents-a-james-joyce-ballet-for-bloomsday; Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/danse-lumiere-presents-a-james-joyce-ballet-for-bloomsday-tickets-1334802382859)
16 JUNE 2025 — monday
17 JUNE 2025 — tuesday
- Oakland Poetry Slam, monthly on the third Tuesday, Tamarack, 1501 Harrison Street, Oakland, 6:30-10:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: tamarackoakland.com)
18 JUNE 2025 — wednesday
19 JUNE 2025 — thursday
- Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Richard Tillinghast, Night Train to Memphis, Jeanne Foster, Your Form Became My Own, and Alan Williamson, The Pattern More Complicated: New and Selected Poems, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 7:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).
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23 JUNE 2025 — monday
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27 JUNE 2025 — friday
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29 JUNE 2025 — sunday
- Café Frida Poetry Festival presents Jack Crimmins, Lisa Shulman, Dave Holt, Melissa Eleftherion, readings from Phyllis Meshulam's new book by her daughter Audrey, John Duran, Briahn Kelly-Brennan, and Timothy Williams, hosted by Gwynn O'Gara, Café Frida, 300 South A Street, Santa Rosa, free, 1:00-3:00 (www.cafefridagallery.com)
30 JUNE 2025 — monday
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