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Mark Nowak and Worker Writers School

30 SEPTEMBER 2021 — thursday

The Poetry Center presents a reading of Coronavirus Haikus, a selection of poems written by frontline workers during the Covid 19 pandemic, featuring poet and essayist Mark Nowak, Coal Mountain Elementary, and the Worker Writers School, a school founded by Nowak that represents New York City's least-heard population, low-wage workers, including Thomas Barzey, Kerl Brooks, Estabon Chimilio, Nimfa Despabiladeras, Lorraine Garnett, Davidson Garrett, Seth Goldman, Christine Lewis, Doreen McGill, Alando McIntyre, Kelebohile Nkhereanye, Alfreda Small, and Paloma Zapata, emceed by Tanya Hollis, online, free, 7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: poetry.sfsu.edu/events/29200-mark-nowak-and-worker-writers-school-coronavirus-haiku-reading-and-conversation)




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26 OCTOBER 2025 — sunday

  • Poetry Flash presents Women in a Golden State, California Poets at 60 and Beyond, an anthology celebration and contributor's reading featuring poets Laurel Benjamin, Caroline Goodwin, Robin Michel, and Lisa Rosenberg, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm (poetryflash.org).

27 OCTOBER 2025 — monday

28 OCTOBER 2025 — tuesday

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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