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Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

New Directions@85: Anniversary Celebration: Forrest Gander, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Susan Howe, more

3 JUNE 2021 — thursday

City Lights Books celebrates the 85th anniversary of New Directions publishers, founded in 1936 by James Laughlin, publisher of numerous legendary anthologies and authors, including Andre Gide, Gary Snyder, William Carlos Williams, Yoko Tawada, Pablo Nerudo, and many others, featuring poets Mei-me Berssenbrugge, Nathaniel Tarn, Susan Howe, Michael Palmer, and others, translator Elliot Weinberger, Barbara Epler, president of New Directions, Declan Spring, vice president and senior editor of New Directions, and other surprise guests, emceed by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator Forrest Gander, Be With, free, online, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.eventbrite.com/e/new-directions-85-the-anniversary-celebration-tickets-151262318667)




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29 OCTOBER 2025 — wednesday

  • Poetry reading by Marcia Falk, The Sky Will Overtake You, and Lucille Lang Day, Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place; she is publisher of Scarlet Tanager Books, reading introduced by Richard Silberg, homemade goodies will be served, sponsored by Temple Sinai's Fine Arts Committee on Culture and Community, Temple Sinai Chapel, 2808 Summit, at 28th Street between Webster and Summit, enter at gate in parking lot, Oakland, free, 7:00 (www.oaklandsinai.org/event/poetry-reading1.html)
  • Sacramento Poetry Center presents "Dangerous Women," a poetry reading by Molly Fisk, Kim Shuck, Moira Magneson, and Tricia Caspers, open mic follows, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, 7:30

30 OCTOBER 2025 — thursday

31 OCTOBER 2025 — friday


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