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Sally Ashton and Rafaella Del Bourgo
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Dorothy Gilbert

Dorothy Gilbert and Naomi Ruth Lowinsky

10 APRIL 2022 — sunday

Poetry Flash presents a reading by poet and translator Dorothy Gilbert, Fox Woman, with poet and Jungian analyst Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, Death and His Lorca, online via Zoom, free, 3:00 pm PDT (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 launch reading on Sunday, April 10 at 3:00 pm PDT. We are excited to bring you this event 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 meeting. Thank you for continuing to support Poetry Flash and our reading series.

This reading is co-sponsored by Moe's Books in Berkeley. Naomi Ruth Lowinsky's Death and His Lorca is available at bookshop.org/lists/poetry-flash-readings. Dorothy Gilbert's Fox Woman is available at: sugartownpublishing.com/titles_and_ordering.

MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Dorothy Gilbert's new poetry collection is Fox Woman. Robert Alter says, "The world becomes magical and often mysterious in Dorothy Gilbert's poems. Landscapes, cityscapes, ordinary domestic settings, and, above all, the presences of nature show forth in a fresh light. The language of the poems is vigorous and musical, its diction bracingly compact, and abounding in little revelatory surprises. This is a book that readers who care about poetry should cherish." Dorothy Gilbert's poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The Iowa Review, and other print and online publications from Poetry Flash to Persimmon Tree. Her translations are included in The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, and she has published two translations from twelfth-century Old French: Erec and Enide, the first known Arthurian romance, and Marie de France: Poetry. She received the Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation and an award from the Columbia University Translation Center. She has also published criticism, journalism, and science fiction.

Naomi Ruth Lowinsky's fifth poetry book is Death and His Lorca. Susan Terris says, "Naomi Ruth Lowinsky's [new book] is a powerful volume of poems about love, about loss but also about how lost ones still stream indelibly through a life. Again and again, Lorca's passion and Lowinsky's intertwine, adding a memorable musical lyric to the whole book." Death and His Lorca includes Lowinsky's strongest work from the last two decades, it is "at once archetypal, personal, political and influenced by the great Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, whose understanding of duende—involving the presence of death—became the magnet for the poems in this collection. The dead show up as late kin, late friends, ancestors, tricksters, spirit guides and oracles." Her poetry books include Dreaming Night Terrors, The Faust Woman Poems, and Adagio & Lamentation; her memoir is The Sister from Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way. She is the author of numerous prose essays, many published in Psychological Perspectives and The Jung Journal. She is also co-editor of Marked by Fire: Stories of the Jungian Way. A member of the San Francisco Institute, for years she led Deep River, a writing circle there. She is a Jungian analyst in private practice.




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7 AUGUST 2025 — thursday

  • Poetry Night Reading Series presents poet and translator Keith Ekiss, Burial Fragments, winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, and poet Robin Ekiss, with host Dr. Andy Jones, air-conditioned venue, John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street, Davis, 7:00 (www.poetryindavis.com)
  • Skylight Books welcomes Rachel Eve Moulton to read from and discuss her horror novel, Tantrum, in conversation with Kashana Cauley, an exhausted mother thinks her newborn might be a monster, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 (www.skylightbooks.com/event)

8 AUGUST 2025 — friday

  • Skylight Books presents Trivia Night with Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings, The Complete Kennections, his first new trivia book in more than a decade, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 (www.skylightbooks.com/event)

9 AUGUST 2025 — saturday

  • Sacramento Poetry Alliance presents a poetry reading by Susan Cohen and Jeanne Wagner, One Needful Song, winner of the Catamaran Poetry Prize, open mic follows, 1169 Perkins Way, Sacramento, refreshments, 4:00 (see Sacramento Poetry Alliance on Facebook)
  • North Bay Letterpress Arts presents An Afternoon of Poetry, with Brenda Hillman, In a Few Minutes Before Later, and Norma Cole, Alibi Lullaby, handset letterpress broadsides of work by the poets wil be printed for the occasion and available with a donation to NBLA, North Bay Letterpress Arts, 925-D Gravenstein Hwy. S., Sebastopol, light refreshments, free, 4:00 to 5:30 (RSVP suggested: www.northbayletterpressarts.org/upcoming-events-1/2025/8/9?mc_cid=8c4eb62517&mc_eid=c91c6d51fb)
  • Sonoma County Fair presents "Poetry Share at the Fair"; come hear poets read their original poems entered into the Sonoma County Fair competition, E.C. Center Craft Building, Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Road, Santa Rosa, 1:00 (sonomacountyfair.com)
  • Willits Community Theatre presents a poetry experience with The Word-Music Continuum, "a unique performance ensemble uniting music with the spoken word," with Mendocino County poet Kirk Lumpkin, and Bay Area musicians Paul Mills on electric Guitar and Mark Wieder on electric and double bass, celebrating the release of their new CD, Wildflowers of Collaboration; an open mic will follow the featured performance, Willits Community Theatre Playhouse, 37 W. Van Lane, Willits, admission by donation but no one turned away for lack of funds, 7:00

10 AUGUST 2025 — sunday

  • Poetry reading by poet and translator Alan Bernheimer, From Nature, and poet, editor, and librarian Jacob Kahnon, Mine Eclogue, presented in a private home in Berkeley, $10 donation, 5:00 (Registration required, email event host at: Harry@fullplatemedia.com)
  • The 222 in Healdsburg presents David Seter, Sonoma County Poet Laureate, leading a generative writing workshop on Zoka Nature Writing, "Zoka" is the Japanese term for the transformative power of nature, seek out and discover overlooked natural objects in Healdsburg Plaza; participants will draft poems or pieces of short prose describing the nature subjects they find, The 222, located at 222 Healdsburg Avenue, 3:00-5:00 (Registration required, (the222.org/product/dave-seter)

11 AUGUST 2025 — monday

  • Skylight Books welcomes Aisha Muharrar to read from and discuss her new novel, Loved One, with Laura Warrall, a funny, wise, heartbreaking story about a woman journeying into the unknown in the wake of sudden loss, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 (www.skylightbooks.com/event)

12 AUGUST 2025 — tuesday

  • Skylight Books welcomes Rax King to discuss her new book of personal essays unpacking bad behavior, Sloppy: Or, Doing It All Wrong, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 (www.skylightbooks.com/event)

13 AUGUST 2025 — wednesday

14 AUGUST 2025 — thursday

  • San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck presents a poetry reading by Jennifer Hasegawa, Norma Cole, and Mary Burger, Poem Jam takes place on the second Thursday of each month unless otherwise noted, San Francisco Main Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Room, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 (415/557-4400, on.sfpl.org/08-14-25)

15 AUGUST 2025 — friday

  • California Poets in the Schools presents their annual Statewide Poetry Symposium, "The Future We Speak," a three-day event, Day 1 begins with Registration and a light dinner, 5:30, and an evening program with poet Fernando Albert Salinas at 7:15, both at San Benito Arts Council; this workshop is designed to bring together longtime members of the CalPoets network and new voices, offering a space to connect, collaborate, and spark creativity, Fernando Albert Salinas is an award-winning educator teaching poetry workshops to K-12 students and incarcerated youth, and is the California Poets in the Schools Program Manager; he is well-known for his leadership as an arts activist throughout California, especially in Ventura County, held at San Benito Arts Council, 35 5th Street, Hollister; participate in the entire Symposium or in individual events; Registration and Dinner 5:30-7:00, Evening Program 7:15-8:30 (Registration:www.cpits.org/events/full-event-the-future-we-speak-calpoets-symposium-2025)
  • Skylight Books welcomes Lio Min to read from and discuss her new immersive novel, The L.O.V.E. Club, following three estranged high schoolers who are pulled into a video game to pursue the disappearance of their friend, with Clare Osongco, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 (www.skylightbooks.com/event)

16 AUGUST 2025 — saturday

  • California Poets in the Schools presents their annual Statewide Poetry Symposium, "The Future We Speak," a three-day event, Day 2 begins with breakfast; 9:30 am: Rosanna Alvarez presents "The Creative Pulse: Poetry, Expression & Possibility in Community"; 11:30 am: Kim Addonizio presents "Poetry Reading & Book Signing"; 3:45 pm: Michael Jasso, "Set the Stage: an introduction in Bringing Spoken Word to the Classroom" and Nancy Lynée Woo, "Poetry of Resistance"; 5:00 pm: James Coats, "Performance Games: Teaching Performance through Play and Improv," Gia Civerolo, "Engaging in Erasure Poetry," earlier events held at San Benito Arts Council, 35 5th Street, Hollister; 7:00 pm–8:30 pm: Open Mic held at Hills Bookstore, 650 San Benito Street, Suite 140, downtown Hollister; participate in the entire Symposium or in individual events; All-day, events 8:30 am to 8:30 pm (Registration: https://www.cpits.org/events/full-event-the-future-we-speak-calpoets-symposium-2025; To register for Kim Addonizio Poetry Craft Workshop & Reading only: www.cpits.org/events/only-kim-addonizio-poetry-craft-workshop-reading)

17 AUGUST 2025 — sunday

  • California Poets in the Schools presents their annual Statewide Poetry Symposium, "The Future We Speak," a three-day event, Day 3 begins 9:00 am–10:00 am with a community meeting and breakfast; 10:15 am–11:15 am: Amanda Chiado presents "Gratitude as Gateway," using gratitude as a springboard to creating new work and structuring student workshops; 11:15 am: Symposium Closing; San Benito Arts Council, 35 5th Street, Hollister; participate in the entire Symposium or in individual events; (Registration: www.cpits.org/events/full-event-the-future-we-speak-calpoets-symposium-2025)

18 AUGUST 2025 — monday

19 AUGUST 2025 — tuesday

20 AUGUST 2025 — wednesday

21 AUGUST 2025 — thursday

  • Poetry Night Reading Series presents Rhony Bhopla and Mariam Ahmed, with host Dr. Andy Jones, air-conditioned venue, John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street, Davis, 7:00 (www.poetryindavis.com)

22 AUGUST 2025 — friday

23 AUGUST 2025 — saturday

24 AUGUST 2025 — sunday

25 AUGUST 2025 — monday

26 AUGUST 2025 — tuesday

27 AUGUST 2025 — wednesday

28 AUGUST 2025 — thursday

  • Writers Read presents a featured reader, open mic follows, maximum time for each reader is six minutes, with emcee Michael Riedell, Grace Hudson Museum, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, suggested donation $5, refreshments, featured reading 7:00, open mic 8:00 (For information, email: Michael Riedell, Innisfreeriedell@gmail.com)

29 AUGUST 2025 — friday

  • Cleyvis Natera reads from and presents her new novel, The Grand Paloma Resort, joined in conversation by Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)

30 AUGUST 2025 — saturday

31 AUGUST 2025 — sunday


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