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29 APRIL 2022 — friday

  • The Doug Adams Gallery presents a reading and discussion on poetry, spirituality, and the Song of Songs, in tandem with the exhibition, Draw me after you: a visual Song of Songs, featuring poets Peter Cole, Hymns and Qualms: New and Selected Poems and Translations, and Nate Klug, Hosts and Guests; Peter Cole will also read from his forthcoming book, Draw Me After, online, free, Noon-1:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: gtu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkde-qqjwrEtPlE-dHSrUmXxfi53yAnDVR)
  • Sacramento City College's El Gigante presents an evening with celebrated poet Sesshu Foster, City of the Future, World Ball Notebook, followed by an open mic reading, hosted by Danny Romero, this event supported partly by Poets and Writers, online, free, 7:00-8:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: cccconfer.zoom.us/j/9348057923)

30 APRIL 2022 — saturday

  • Medicine for Nightmares presents a reading in celebration of new works from Dog Park Collective, featuring poets Gabrielle Daniels, Something Else Again: Poetry and Prose, 1975-2019, Maryam Gunja, Right to Comfort, and Hung Q. Tu, The New Boma, in person, Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore and Gallery, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, 4:00-5:30 pm PDT (More information here: medicinefornightmares.com/events)
  • Poet's Corner Bookshop celebrates Independent Bookstore Day with a day of local author readings, including Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Interrupted Geographies, Toby Neal, Blood Orchids, John Mark Schnick, Cold 'Coon and Collards, John McCarty, Neal Grace, Fresh Eyes Upon the World, and more, with musical performance by JoAnne and Felipe Ferraz, wine tastings courtesy of Sophie's Cellars, free, Poet's Corner Bookshop, 25195 B Street, Duncans Mills (More information here: poetscornerbookshop.com/pages/events)
  • Book Passage presents poet Terri Glass, celebrating her latest book, Being Animal, joined by poets Susan G. Wooldridge, Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words, and Emilie Lygren, Book Passage, 51 Tama Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, free, 4:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.bookpassage.com/event/terri-glass-being-animal-corte-madera-store)
  • Come join Hayward's first Lit Hop, a lit crawl across multiple venues, beginning at the Hayward Public Library where the first Hayward Teen Poet Laureate will be announced, followed by a poetry reading and a Ballet Folklorico performance, with readings on or near B Street featuring the B Street Writers, the AfroSurrealists, students from Chabot College, the Queer Writers, the Peer Writers' Group, and tributes to Julia Vinograd, with numerous venues including Books on B, Aranea's Craft Studio, the Sun Gallery, and the Odd Fellows Hall, concluding with an afterparty at the Sun Gallery, at the downtown Hayward Public Library, 888 C Street, Hayward, free, 2:00-7:00 pm PDT
  • Future Now Reading Series, an open mic highlighting black and brown writers, features poets Lupita Limón Corrales, Adrian Ibarra, hector son of hector, Mimi Tempestt, the monumental misrememberings, Josiah Luis Alderete, Baby Axolotls and Old Pochos, with San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin, Heaven is All Goodbyes, hybrid event on Zoom and in person, Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore and Gallery, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, free, 8:00-10:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: medicinefornightmares.com/events)
  • Beyond Baroque presents the inaugural screening of the International Poetry Film Festival, Hollywood, with over forty poetry-based films from around the world, the films will be in the categories of Animation, Experimental, Documentary, and Narrative, and will be accompanied by poetry readings from special guests, followed by an award ceremony and reception, $8 for members, $10 general admission, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, 2:00-9:00 pm PDT (Purchase tickets here: www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html)
  • Come join the Last Saturday of the Month Open Mic, held virtually in Encino-Tarzana, bring a poem to share, or come just to listen, online via Zoom, free, 2:00 pm PDT (Zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/j/85213728144?pwd=V0tCY0M0UHR3V2JmbW1pN3hKZEpRdz09; more information here: www.facebook.com/LastSaturdayOfTheMonthOpenMicInEncinoTarzana)
  • The Women's National Book Association presents 2022's Pitch-O-Rama, writers can pitch their works to agents and editors for publication, online, $65 for members, $95 for nonmembers, 8:00 am-1:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: wnba-sfchapter.org/april-30th-virtual-pitch-o-rama-2022)
  • The California Institute for Community, Art, and Nature presents Native American organizer and spiritual leader Fred Short, discussing his new memoir, The Story of Fred Short: American Indian Movement Spiritual Leader, in conversation with Kim Bancroft, California-based writer and editor of the book, online via Zoom, free, 11:00 am-12:30 pm PDT, anyone interested in purchasing the book can email aimsober@yahoo.com or contact Fred Short through Facebook, copies are $20 each (Zoom link here: us02web.zoom.us/j/82970879634)
  • Nevada County Arts Council presents the 6th Annual Sierra Poetry Festival, a day of poetry readings and performances featuring readings and talks by Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander, Twice Alive; Danusha Laméris, Bonfire Opera, winner of the Northern California Book Award for Poetry, National Book Critics Circle-winner Amy Gerstler, Index of Women; Dana Gioia in conversation with Cynthia L. Haven, author of Czeslaw Milosz: A California Life, her biography of the Nobel Prize-winning poet; Doc Dachtler; Nevada County Poet Laureate Kirsten Casey; Shangyang Fang; Mark Tredinnick; Poetry Out Loud Student Champions and Finalists, lunch-time open reading, Poetry Place bookfair (Poetry Flash will exhibit), hybrid in-person and online, Miners Foundry Cultural Center, 325 Spring Street, Nevada City, free, 9:00 am-5:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.sierrapoetryfestival.org)

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