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Elena Karina Byrne
Elena Karina Byrne and Gail Wronsky
9 DECEMBER 2021 — thursday
Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Elena Karina Byrne, If This Makes You Nervous, and Gail Wronsky, Under the Capsized Boat We Fly: New & Selected Poems, online via Zoom, free, 7:00 pm PST (Register to attend: please click here; you will receive an email with a link to join the reading)
Please join us for a Poetry Flash virtual reading on Thursday, December 9 at 7:00 pm PST! We are excited to bring you this compelling reading via Zoom. To register for this reading, please click on the link in the calendar listing above. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event. Thank you for continuing to support Poetry Flash and our reading series during these unprecedented times.
This reading is co-sponsored by Moe's Books in Berkeley; the featured books are available at bookshop.org/lists/poetry-flash-readings.
MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Elena Karina Byrne's new book is If This Makes You Nervous, a book of lyric poetry that responds to works of art. Molly Bendall says, "In this original and beguiling collection, Byrne offers us her private gallery and guides us through episodes of her life, revealing to us not only how works of art have instructed and nurtured her, but also how her life became imprinted on the art." A Pushcart Prize recipient, her previous books include No, Don't, Squander, MASQUE, and The Flammable Bird. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, Kyoto Journal, Verse Daily, Poetry International, Plume, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Kenyon Review, Narrative, Volt, TriQuarterly, and BOMB. She's currently writing screenplays, short stories, and completing a collection of hybrid essays entitled "Voyeur Hour: Poetry, Art, Film, & Desire." Former Regional Director of the Poetry Society of America, Elena Karina Byrne is a freelance editor and lecturer, Programming Consultant & Stage Manager for The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, poetry programs curator for the Craft Contemporary Museum, and literary programs director for The Ruskin Art Club.
Gail Wronsky's new book is Under the Capsized Boat We Fly: New & Selected Poems David St. John says, "Gail Wronsky is an astonishing poet whose work I've turned to for more than twenty-five years to find the most deeply compassionate, artistically complex and intellectually astute poetry being written in this country. She is a literary revisionist of the most exquisite order, reconstructing the poetic canon, challenging the historical conventions of poetry and striking urgent, lyric chords of female empowerment. …With this book she takes her rightful place among the most celebrated of American poets." Her previous poetry collections include Imperfect Pastorals, Poems for Infidels, and Dying for Beauty (finalist for the Western Arts Federation Poetry Prize). She is the translator of Argentinean poet Alicia Partnoy's book Fuegos Florales/Flowering Fires, winner of the American Poetry Prize from Settlement House Press. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Boston Review, Antioch Review, Poetry International, and Volt. Her work has appeared in anthologies, including Poets Against War, The Black Body, In Possession of Shakespeare, The Poet's Child, and Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes and Shifts of Los Angeles.
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24 JANUARY 2022 — monday
- San Francisco Public Library celebrates the release of ZYZZYVA No. 122, The Inter/Transnational Issue, with a night of readings featuring contributors from the issue, readers include C.J.A., Shelby Kinney-Lang, Marie Mutsuki Mockett, and Dean Rader, hosted by Oscar Villalon, ZYZZYVA managing editor, Zoom, free, 7:00-8:00 pm PST (For more information and to register, visit: sfpl.org/events)
25 JANUARY 2022 — tuesday
- San Francisco Public Library's Bernal Readers Book Club, read and discuss Amor Towles's A Gentleman in Moscow, a novel about a man sentenced to a life of house arrest in Moscow's Metropol Hotel during the Bolshevik revolution, in-person, Bernal Heights Meeting Room, 500 Cortland Avenue, San Francisco, free, 2:00-4:00pm PST (For more information, visit: sfpl.org/events)
- Cobalt Poets presents a reading featuring slam poet Generalissimo Bryan Franco, with open mic to follow, free, online via Zoom, 7:30 pm PST (Register to attend: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
- City Lights presents Peter Richardson in conversation with David Talbot, celebrating the book launch for Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo, online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PST (Zoom link here: citylights.com/events-category/peter-richardson-in-conversation-with-david-talbot)
26 JANUARY 2022 — wednesday
- Left Margin Lit presents "Eco-Poetics for a Changing World," a class led by poet and essayist Susie Meserve, Little Prayers, Faith; participants will read nature writing for inspiration, and use various techniques to write eco-poetry, with the idea of capturing what we love in the world in an era of climate change, runs two Wednesdays, January 26 and February 2, $175, online, 6:00-8:30 pm PST (Enroll here: www.leftmarginlit.org/eco-poetics-for-a-changing-world-meserve)
- Skylight Books presents short fiction writer Henry Hoke, The Book of Endless Sleepovers, Genevieves, discussing his new book, Sticker, a memoir told through stickers, exploring queer childhood, parental disability, and ancestral violence, in conversation with artist and writer Kate Durbin, Hoarders, free, in person, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, 7:30 pm PST (For more information: www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-henry-hoke-presents-sticker-kate-durbin)
- City Lights presents John Nichols in conversation with Congressman Ro Khanna, a discussion exploring John Nichol's new book Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis, online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PST (Zoom link here: citylights.com/events-category/john-nichols-in-conversation-with-congressman-ro-khanna)
27 JANUARY 2022 — thursday
- Library Foundation of Los Angeles and Young Literati present Wine and Wisdom featuring a conversation with journalist and poet Dana Goodyear, whose current project is the Lost Hills true crime podcast, hosted by Young Literati member Shayna Englin, Zoom, free, 7:00 pm PST (Register to attend: lfla.org/calendar)
- Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center celebrates the life of avant-garde Chicano poet Alfred Arteaga (1950-2008), with readings and discussions featuring poet Cherríe Moraga, A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness; artist and author Harry Gamboa Jr.; poet and educator Richard T. Rodríguez, Exemplars and Accomplices; Juan Felipe Herrera, U.S. Poet Laureate 2015-17, 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007); and critic and translator Ryuta Imafuku, hosted by poet and editor David Lloyd, Dark Room, audience Q&A to follow, free, online, 6:00 pm PST (Register to attend: www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html)
- City Lights presents Jordan Stein and Bruce Hainley discussing the life and afterlives of artist Jay DeFeo's Estocada, a work created in the shadow of her great painting, The Rose, online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PST (Zoom link here: citylights.com/events-category/jordan-stein-and-bruce-hainley-in-conversation)
28 JANUARY 2022 — friday
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29 JANUARY 2022 — saturday
- Book Passage presents 3 Minute Reads from students of the Writers Grotto writing classes, there will be wine, fun, and fresh new writing, Book Passage Ferry Building, 1 Ferry Building #42, San Francisco, free, 3:00 pm PST (For more information: www.bookpassage.com/san-francisco-events)
- Nomadic Press presents a book release for Warriors for Justice: Our Future Has Its Eyes on You, Zoom, free, 6:00-8:00 pm PST (To join the Zoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83240531667?pwd=MVpNVW9RUi9yb1orUHdBUzJ1OUlZZz09; For more information:www.nomadicpress.org/events)
30 JANUARY 2022 — sunday
- Book Passage presents New York Times best-selling author Isabel Allende reading from and discussing her new novel, Violeta, Book Passage Ferry Building, 1 Ferry Building #42, San Francisco, $40, 2:00 pm PST (For more information: www.bookpassage.com/san-francisco-events)
- City Lights and the Contemporary Jewish Museum present Harry Freedman in conversation with Dan Libenson discussing Harry Freedman's book Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius, from Bloomsbury Books, online via Zoom, free, Noon PST (Zoom link here: citylights.com/events-category/harry-freedman-in-conversation-with-dan-libenson)
- Drop Leaf Press presents a Chapbook Release Reading celebrating Barbara Tomash's Residue, and Eloisa Amezcua's DREAMLIFE, Zoom, free, 3:00-6:00 pm PST (Register to attend: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlc-igrDMvGNYlezuurafpX68X4P3BcYbi?fbclid=IwAR3qMG_9ELwxEnfb58C6gTZefw0dYYB5k0ar1QPCJtfpNAARgffGduaQDFU)
31 JANUARY 2022 — monday
- San Francisco Public Library presents Book Club, read and discuss Richard Matheson's award-winning novel Somewhere in Time, a moving romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met allows him to literally transcend time, zoom, free, 7:30-8:30pm PST (For more information, visit: sfpl.org/events)
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