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19 SEPTEMBER 2025 — friday

• City Arts and Lectures presents Arundhati Roy reading from and discussing her new memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me, a soaring account of how the author became the person and writer she is, shaped by circumstance and her complex relationship to her extraordinary mother, in conversation with award-winning reporter Deepa Fernandes, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $59, 7:30 (www.cityarts.net/event/arundhati-roy-2)
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20 SEPTEMBER 2025 — saturday

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21 SEPTEMBER 2025 — sunday

• California Street Poets presents a reading by Laurel Benjamin,Flowers on a Train; Jackie Berger, Left at the Ruin; Yiskah Rosenfeld,Tasting Flight; 2727 California Street Gallery, 2727 California Street at Ward, Berkeley, refreshments, free, 2:00 (www.laurelbenjamin.com/events)
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• The 28th annual Petaluma Poetry Walk is an annual poetry festival founded in 1996, this year features 26 poets at eight venues: 11:00 am, Hotel Petaluma, Ballroom, 205 Kentucky Street: Sixteen Rivers Press kicks off the Walk with Judy Halebsky, Moira Magneson, and Patrick Cahill, with event presenter Terry Ehret; Noon, Keller Street CoWork, Main Lounge, 140 Keller Street: Unsolicited Press Poets, Cathryn Shea, LeeAnn Pickrell, and Kerry Donoghue, with event presenter Daedalus Howell; 1:00 pm, The Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington Street: Found Poets in The Round, Grayson Thompson, Original Giotis, and Bernice Espinoza, with event presenter Josh Windmiller; 2:00 pm, The Big Easy, 128 American Alley: Black Lawrence Press Poets, Cassandra Dallett, Tureeda Mikell, and Paul Corman-Roberts, with event presenter Ingrid Keir; 3:00 pm, Copperfield's Books, 140 Kentucky Street: The Headliners, Dorianne Laux, Life on Earth, and Joseph Millar, Shine, with event presenter Kary Hess; 4:00 pm, Usher Gallery, 1 Petaluma Blvd. North: the Translator Poets, Nancy Morales, Terry Ehret, Amanda Moore, with event presenter Dave Seter, Sonoma County Poet Laureate; 5:00 pm, The Petaluma Historical Library and Museum, 20 4th Street: The Library Youth Poets, Meg Hamill, Lisa Zheng, and Anaya Ertz, with event presenter John Johnson; 6:00-8:00 pm, Aqus Café, 189 H Street (this location is the farthest, you might want a ride for this venue): The Grande Finale: The Shape of Love with Jennifer Barone, Justin Cole Demeter, Ingrid Keir, Sonoma County Poet Laureate Dave Seter, Kelechi Ubozoh, Bill Vartnaw, with event presenter Kary Hess; all in walking distance across Petaluma, all free, 11:00 am to 8:00 pm (For more information, visit: petalumapoetrywalk.org)
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22 SEPTEMBER 2025 — monday

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23 SEPTEMBER 2025 — tuesday

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24 SEPTEMBER 2025 — wednesday

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25 SEPTEMBER 2025 — thursday

• Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Bruce Isaacson, Porpoisefully Wrong, and Paul Corman-Roberts, Bone Moon Palace, 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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• San José Poetry Festival Opening Night features Jan McEwan, José Jiménez, and Keiko O'Leary, SJZ Break Room, 310 South First Street, San Jose, $25 general, $20 Poetry Center San José members, free to youth age 19 and under; festival passes $60/$50 PCSJ members, 7:00 (www.pcsj.org/festival-2025)
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26 SEPTEMBER 2025 — friday

• San José Poetry Festival presents the Youth Poetry Workshop, parents and children are welcome to participate, facilitated by Mighty Mike McGee, paper and pencils provided; Willow Glen Library, 1157 Minnesota Avenue, San Jose, free, 4:00 to 5:30 (www.pcsj.org/festival-2025)
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• San José Poetry Festival presents ¡Cultura Poetry Night! featuring Leticia Hernández-Linares and Marvin Flores, with open mic hosted by Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo, online via Zoom, free, 6:30 (www.pcsj.org/festival-2025)
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• San José Poetry Festival presents the Friday Night Main Event, featuring Kim Addonizio, Joseph Rios, and Jaz Sufi, Hillbrook Upper School, 227 N. First Street, San Jose, street parking available, $25 general, $20 Poetry Center San José members, free to youth age 19 and under; festival passes $60/$50 PCSJ members, doors open 7:30, reading 8:00 (www.pcsj.org/festival-2025)
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27 SEPTEMBER 2025 — saturday

• Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library presents a reading by the Fourth Saturdays Team, the organizers of the series: Lucia Galloway-Dick, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Genevieve Kaplan, and George Hammons, Claremont Helen Renwick Library, 208 N. Harvard Avenue, in the Claremont Village, Claremont, free, 2:00 (909/621-4902, www.claremontlibrary.org/monthly-poetry-readings.html)
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• The Sitting Room presents a Round Table Discussion on "The Poetry of Marianne Moore: Just Fiddle or Genuine?" led by Sonoma County Poet Laureate Dave Seter, bring your own favorite poems by Moore or poems of hers that you find challenging, The Sitting Room, Cotati, 2:00-4:00 (Registration required, sittingroomlibrary.org/events)
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• San José Poetry Festival presents "Palabras & Poetry: Zapatista Principles Workshop," hosted by Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo, online via Zoom, free, 10:00 am
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• San José Poetry Festival presents a Writing Workshop with Kim Addonizio, Markham House at History Park, 635 Phelan Avenue, San Jose, $50 general, $40 Poetry Center San José members and youth age 19 and under; festival passes $60/$50 PCSJ members, 11:00 am-1:00 (www.pcsj.org/festival-2025)
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• San José Poetry Festival presents "Beautiful Black Books: Black Women Poets Laureate," a poetry reading including KaNikki Jakarta, Jennifer Bartell Boykin, Rhea Carmon, Tama Brisbane, and Chastity Gunn, hosted by Tshaka Campbell, reserve your free ticket to receive the Zoom link, Noon (www.pcsj.org/festival-2025)
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• San José Poetry Festival presents a Writing Workshop with Jaz Sufi, Hillbrook Upper School, 227 N. First Street, San Jose, street parking available, $25 general, $20 Poetry Center San José members and youth age 19 and under; festival passes $60/$50 PCSJ members, 2:00 (www.pcsj.org/festival-2025)
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• San José Poetry Festival presents "Poetry 'n' Movement," with Bauchhaar, Convergence Art Center, 1345 The Alameda, San Jose, $15 general, $10 Poetry Center San José members, complimentary tickets available for youth age 19 and under; festival passes $60/$50 PCSJ members, 3:30 (www.pcsj.org/festival-2025)
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• San José Poetry Festival's Saturday Night Main Event presents "Santa Clara County Youth Poets Laureate Commencement," Hillbrook Upper School, 227 N. First Street, San Jose, street parking available, free to all youth age 19 and under and those with a festival pass, 8:00 (www.pcsj.org/festival-2025)
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28 SEPTEMBER 2025 — sunday

• San José Poetry Festival presents local publishers "under a mighty oak tree" at their Small Press Fair, with an open mic, Markham House at History Park, 1650 Phelan Avenue, San Jose, free, no ticket needed, 10:00 am-1:00 (www.pcsj.org/festival-2025)
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• San José Poetry Festival presents Writing Workshop with Lucia Misch, Markham House at History Park, 1650 Phelan Avenue, San Jose, $25 general, $20 Poetry Center San José members and youth age 19 and under, 1:30-3:30 (www.pcsj.org/festival-2025)
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• San José Poetry Festival presents the Closing Night Gathering, not a reading, but a post-festival get together to relax and bask in the company of poets and friends, Markham House at History Park, 1650 Phelan Avenue, San Jose, free, no ticket needed, 5:00-8:00 (www.pcsj.org/festival-2025)
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• Rumi's Caravan returns to Berkeley for recitations of world poetry, featuring an improvised poetic conversation with music, the presentation quotes from the works Rumi, Hafiz, Mary Oliver, Kabir, Wendell Berry, Neruda, Rilke, Robert Bly, Yeats, Naomi Shihab Nye, William Stafford, Maya Angelou, Leonard Cohen, Seamus Heaney, Denise Levertov, Antonio Machado, May Sarton and others, ticket sales support the work of the Middle East Children's Alliance; The Freight & Salvage, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, $30 Advance or $35 Door, 7:30 pm (rumiscaravan.com)
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29 SEPTEMBER 2025 — monday

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30 SEPTEMBER 2025 — tuesday

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