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Poetry Flash Reading Series
Kim Addonizio, Jan Beatty, Brittany Perham
10/10, Berkeley
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Annie Stenzel and Patricia Caspers
10/13, Berkeley
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John Sibley Williams

John Sibley Williams, Rusty Morrison, Alexis Sears

12 JUNE 2022 — sunday

Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Rusty Morrison, Beyond the Chainlink, John Sibley Williams, Scale Model of a Country at Dawn, Cider Press Review Book Award-winner and The Drowning House, Elixir Press Poetry Award-winner, with Alexis Sears, Out of Order, Donald Justice Poetry Prize-winner, 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 reading on Sunday, June 12 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. Featured books for this reading are available at bookshop.org/shop/poetryflash.

MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Rusty Morrison's most recent collection, Beyond the Chainlink, was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. Library Journal wrote, "As these eloquent, perfectly faceted poems attest, life is at heart our burningly patient negotiation with the everyday. We're followed by 'dangerous ideas,' risk the 'little hurt' of impulse, attempt to construct meaning (even in the backyard), and always, always desire ('This wanting, a pocket mirror I'll rub / until the silver backing rubs off.') James Laughlin Award-winner Morrison delivers poetry that feels affirmative, radiant, and lived." Her previous books include After Urgency, Tupelo's Dorset Prize-winner, the true keeps calm biding its story, winner of the Ahsahta Press Sawtooth Prize, James Laughlin Award, Northern California Book Award, and DiCastagnola Award. She is a recipient of a Civitella Ranieri fellowship, and other artist retreat fellowships. She was one of eight fellows in the 2020 UC Berkeley Art Research Center's Poetry and the Senses Program. Co-publisher of Omnidawn Publishers, she teaches and offers writing consultations.

Alexis Sears's debut collection is Out of Order, winner of the 2021 Donald Justice Poetry Prize. David Yezzi says, "If you have never read Alexis Sears, prepare yourself. Her poems draw blood. It's hard to think of a debut collection since Heart's Needle [by W.D Snodgrass] that is at once so deeply felt and so finely tuned. In her hands, form is the fist that delivers the blow, conveying the pure force of language. With so much at stake—identity, melancholia, a father's suicide in a distant place—feeling could easily overwhelm and blur, but Sears's poems remain precise and richly textured. Her poems do not succumb; they triumph, as we do, thrillingly, through them." She earned her BA in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and her MFA in poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work has appeared in the Birmingham Poetry Review, Cortland Review, Northwest Review, Poet Lore, E-verse Radio, Hopkins Review, Literary Matters, Best American Poetry 2022, minnesota review, Cimarron Review, Able Muse, and elsewhere. She is poetry editor of the online literary journal, Up North Lit.

John Sibley Williams is the author of nine poetry collections, including Scale Model of a Country at Dawn (Cider Press Review Poetry Award). Susan Rich says, "To conjure is a recurring theme in this impressive collection—as if language holds the power to reconfigure a past, a mother, a child. And perhaps it can. Williams's words are that convincing." His books include The Drowning House (Elixir Press Poetry Award), As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize), Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize, University of Nebraska Press), and Summon (JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize). His collection, Sky Burial: New & Selected Poems, is forthcoming in translated form by the Portuguese press do lado esquerdo. A twenty-seven-time Pushcart nominee, Williams is the winner of numerous other awards, including the Laux/Millar Prize. He serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review and is founder of the Caesura Poetry Workshop series. His work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Yale Review, Verse Daily, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, and TriQuarterly.




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4 OCTOBER 2024 — friday

5 OCTOBER 2024 — saturday

  • Strawberry Creek Walk, led by Nevada County Poet Laureate emerita Chris (J.C.) Olander, with poetry and nature commentary on an easy walk along beautiful Strawberry Creek, meet at Center and Oxford, on the edge of the UC Berkeley campus, Berkeley, free, 10:00 am PDT (510/525-5476; for updates, see: Poetryflash.org)
  • Celebrate Writers, Nature and Community at the 29th annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, featuring poetry from the NCBA Fred Cody Award-winner for Lifetime Achievement, Jane Hirshfield, The Asking; San Francisco Poet Laureate, Genny Lim; James Cagney, James Laughlin Award-winner/Academy of American Poets; Cintia Santana, winner of the Northern California Book Award in Poetry, The Disordered Alphabet, and much more, Also featuring We Are Nature Open Mic, (enter the drawing for eight spots at noon) and live jazz from The Barry Finnerty Trio, guitarist Finnerty has played with Miles Davis, The Crusaders, Brecker Brothers, and Hubert Laws, alongside the Ecology Center's Berkeley Farmers' Market; to exhibit, email info@poetryflash.org, Martin Luther King, Jr. Civic Center Park, Berkeley, free, Noon to 4:30 pm PDT (For more information and updates, visit: www.poetryflash.org/programs/?p=watershed_2024)
  • Apogee Press welcomes all for a celebration of their 25th anniversary with food, drinks, books for sale, and books for free; two sessions feature, 2:00 pm poetry reading: Barbara Tomash, Elizabeth Robinson, Laura Walker, Maxine Chernoff, and Paul Hoover, followed by the 4:00 pm poetry reading: Alice Jones, Edward Smallfield, Denise Newman, Stephen Hemenway, Truong Tran, and Valerie Coulton, Orinda Community Church, 10 Irwin Way, Orinda, free, 1:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.facebook.com/events/815420510428764/?paipv=0&eav=AfZGTyXmNe7FbTK1NAguR0VFCAHTkM6kjX46hUDJ5OWLMcqxS0b6LmM49MbwdycP2Ng&_rdr)
  • Point Reyes Books welcomes poet Brenda Hillman to discuss her new collection of lectures, Three Talks: Metaphor and Metonymy, Meaning and Mystery, Magic and Morality, in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Hass, Dance Palace, 503 B Street, Point Reyes Station, free, 4:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.ptreyesbooks.com/event/brenda-hillman-and-bob-hass)
  • Beyond Baroque welcomes poet Jacqueline Berger, The Day You Miss Your Exit, to launch her new collection, Left at the Ruin, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, free, 2:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/la-book-launch-left-at-the-ruin-by-jacqueline-berger-tickets-1015866733747?aff=ebdsoporgprofile)
  • Rare Books LA presents their two-day (October 5 to 6, 2024) Union Station book fair featuring antiquarian booksellers, ephemera, map dealers, exhibitors, panels, and author talks, Los Angeles Union Station, 800 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles, $15-$30, 10:00 am PDT (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/rare-books-la-union-station-2024-tickets-909552364607?aff=abaa)

6 OCTOBER 2024 — sunday

7 OCTOBER 2024 — monday

8 OCTOBER 2024 — tuesday

9 OCTOBER 2024 — wednesday

10 OCTOBER 2024 — thursday

  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Jan Beatty, Dragstripping, Kim Addonizio, Exit Opera, and Brittany Perham, Double Portrait, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 7:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).
  • Litquake presents their opening event, the "Booksellers' Ball," an evening featuring cocktails, drag performances, music, and booksellers including Adobe Books, Bird and Beckett, Black Bird Books, Book Castle, Books Inc., Book Passage, The Booksmith, City Lights, Comix Experience, Dog Eared Books, Et al., Fabulosa Books, Green Apple Books, Isotope Comics, Medicine for Nightmares, Silver Sprocket, and Telegraph Hill Books, Club Fugazi Experiences, 678 Green Street, San Francisco, $75-$100, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/litquake-opening-night-booksellers-ball-tickets-1000797581507?aff=ebdsoporgprofile)
  • Book Passage and Dominican University of California welcome author Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers, for a discussion of his recent release, Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering, in conversation with broadcast journalist Michael Krasny, Dominican University of California, 20 Olive Avenue, San Rafael, $45, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.bookpassage.com/event/malcolm-gladwell-revenge-tipping-point-dominican-university-california)
  • San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck, Pick a Garnet to Sleep In, celebrates the late and beloved Native American poet and storyteller Mary TallMountain, featuring poetry readings from special guests; San Francisco Main Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/performance-kim-shucks-poem-jam-celebrates-mary-tallmountain-tickets-924077529767?aff=ebdssbdestsearch)
  • National Book Award and Northern California Book Award-winner Sabaa Tahir to celebrate the release of her new romantic fantasy novel, Heir, presented offsite by Linden Tree Books, at the Lucie Stern Community Center, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, $35, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.lindentreebooks.com/events-calendar)

11 OCTOBER 2024 — friday

12 OCTOBER 2024 — saturday

13 OCTOBER 2024 — sunday

  • "Writing Toward the Light" online workshop will be led by author Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, and poet Danusha Laméris, Bonfire Opera, four Sundays in October (October 6, 13, 20, and 27); Workshop sessions will include a craft discussion, a Q&A period, and an in-class writing session, Virtual on Zoom, $250, 4:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.danushalameris.com/offers/xFozUZVF/checkout)
  • Litquake presents "Is Nonfiction Literature? Exploring the Intersection of Fact and Art," writers Tom Barbash, Lindsey Crittenden, Glen David Gold, and Rachel Howard, with moderator Jason Roberts, a discussion about nonfiction and its categorization within the literary arts, San Francisco Public Library, Saroyan Gallery, 100 Larkin Street, Sixth Floor, San Francisco, free, 2:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/is-nonfiction-literature-exploring-the-intersection-of-fact-and-art-registration-1003401590167?aff=ebdsoporgprofile)
  • Litquake welcomes writers Eirinie Carson, Christopher D. Cook, Sabina Khan-Ibarra, Jesus Francisco Sierra, and Rowena Leong Singer for "Celebrating Defiance, Resisting Silence," a discussion of identity, activism, and the pursuit of justice, to give insights into how American culture and politics impact their daily lives as members of under-represented communities, SAGRADA, 4926 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, free, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrating-defiance-resisting-silence-registration-1003981073417?aff=ebdsoporgprofile)
  • Litquake and Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc. (PAWA) present The Filipino American International Book Festival (FilBookFest), a festival celebrating diverse voices and Filipino authors featuring keynote speaker Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now: Essays, San Francisco Public Library, Saroyan Gallery, 100 Larkin Street, Sixth Floor, San Francisco, free, 12:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.filbookfestival.org)
  • Litquake welcomes writers Susan Kiyo Ito, Margaret Juhae Lee, Grace Loh Prasad, and Leslie Absher for "Subterfuge and Secrets: Memoirists Who Go Undercover to Learn the Truth," a discussion about using creative nonfiction to write imagined scenes, and lying, eavesdropping, and/or employing subterfuge to gain access to off-limit material for their memoirs, San Francisco Public Library, Saroyan Gallery, 100 Larkin Street, Sixth Floor, San Francisco, free, 4:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/subterfuge-and-secrets-memoirists-who-go-undercover-to-learn-the-truth-registration-1003402623257?aff=ebdsoporgprofile)
  • Litquake and The Lost Church present "Modern Magic" featuring writer Michelle Tea, Modern Magic, and its companion Modern Tarot, in conversation with Diana Helmuth, The Witching Year, during intermission author Rana Tahir's will share her "Choose Your Own Adventure"-inspired tarot deck, and Julia Halina Hadas's WitchCraft Cocktails will be served, moderated by MK Chavez, The Lost Church, 988 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, $18, 8:15 pm PDT (For more information, visit: thelostchurch.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/instances/a0FTU00000AFhN52AL)
  • Litquake presents "How Mighty Is the Small, Independent Press?" a panel moderated by Tania Malik with Nina Schuyler, Grace Loh Prasad, and Carol LaHines who will share a frank discussion about their experiences being traditionally published by small, independent presses, San Francisco Public Library, Saroyan Gallery, 100 Larkin Street, Sixth Floor, San Francisco, free, 1:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/how-mighty-is-the-small-independent-press-registration-1003400677437?aff=ebdsoporgprofile)
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading featuring Patricia Caspers, The Most Kissed Woman in the World, and Annie Stenzel, Don't misplace the moon, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).

14 OCTOBER 2024 — monday

15 OCTOBER 2024 — tuesday

16 OCTOBER 2024 — wednesday

17 OCTOBER 2024 — thursday

18 OCTOBER 2024 — friday

19 OCTOBER 2024 — saturday

  • Litquake in collaboration with KQED Fest presents "The Rise of the Book Ban & the Freedom to Read," a discussion on book banning with San Francisco City Librarian Michael Lambert, Becka Robbins from Books Not Bans, Authors Against Book Bans member Maggie Tokuda-Hall, and Maia Kobabe, award-winning author of Genderqueer, in recent years the most banned book in the U.S., The Commons at KQED, 2601 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, free, 4:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-rise-of-the-book-ban-the-freedom-to-read-tickets-1001455409087?aff=ebdsoporgprofile)
  • Litquake presents "Poetry World Series," an improvisational poetry challenge where audience members have an opportunity to give award-winning poets freestyle topics, featuring poets Armen Davoudian, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Cindy Ok, Joseph Rios, Mimi Tempestt, and Dashaun Washington, Daniel Handler returns as emcee, Andrew Sean Greer, and Brynn Saito will score, The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco, $17-$20, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-world-series-litquake-edition-tickets-1004310789607?aff=ebdsoporgprofile)

20 OCTOBER 2024 — sunday

  • "Writing Toward the Light" online workshop will be led by author Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, and poet Danusha Laméris, Bonfire Opera, four Sundays in October (October 6, 13, 20, and 27); Workshop sessions will include a craft discussion, a Q&A period, and an in-class writing session, Virtual on Zoom, $250, 4:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.danushalameris.com/offers/xFozUZVF/checkout)
  • Litquake in collaboration with the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents "Out Loud: A Celebration of Queer Poetics," a reading featuring queer poets MK Chavez, Hilary Cruz Mejia, Jessica Ke'mani Hairston, Syd Staiti, Yeva Johnson, and Evelyn Donji, Esplanade, Yerba Buena Gardens, 700 Mission Street, San Francisco, free, Noon PDT (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/out-loud-a-celebration-of-queer-poetics-tickets-1001461507327?aff=ebdsoporgprofile)
  • Beyond Baroque welcomes poet Jose Oseguer, The Milk of Your Blood, for the L.A. book launch of his second full-length poetry collection, And This House is Only a Nest, featuring performances in the Wanda Coleman Theater by poets Elizabeth Metzger, The Spirit Papers, Charles Jensen, Instructions Between Takeoff and Landing, Tamara Miller, and jimmy vega; Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, free, 8:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/la-book-launch-and-this-house-is-only-a-nest-by-jose-oseguera-tickets-964096658057?aff=oddtdtcreator)

21 OCTOBER 2024 — monday

  • The City of El Cerrito presents a drop-in poetry circle with El Cerrito Poet Laureate Tess Taylor, Rift Zone, Hana Gardens Senior Center, 10870 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito, free, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.el-cerrito.org/Calendar.aspx?EID=9395)

22 OCTOBER 2024 — tuesday

23 OCTOBER 2024 — wednesday

  • Graywolf Press presents a literary salon featuring an introduction by poet Dana Gioia, Interrogations at noon, followed by a reading and conversation with Maggie Nelson, Like Love: Essays and Conversations, Solmaz Sharif, Customs, Graywolf director and publisher Carmen Giménez, and Graywolf editorial director Ethan Nosowsky; All attendees will receive a custom tote bag; Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, The Store House, 2 Marina Blvd, Landmark Building C, San Francisco, starting at $50, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: graywolfpress.salsalabs.org/50thanniversarysalonsanfrancisco/index.html)
  • Linden Tree Books welcomes Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin to discuss their new Middle Grade historical adventure, The Bletchley Riddle, presented off site at Rinconada Library, 1213 Newell Road, Palo Alto, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.lindentreebooks.com/events-calendar)
  • City Arts and Lectures presents Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between The World & Me, to discuss his new essay collection, The Message, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, tickets start at $54, 7:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.cityarts.net/event/ta-nehisi-coates-4)

24 OCTOBER 2024 — thursday

25 OCTOBER 2024 — friday

  • Point Reyes Books welcomes Obi Kaufmann to discuss his newest book, The State of Fire: Why California Burns, with watercolor maps and paintings, Red Barn Classroom, 75 Bear Valley Road, Point Reyes Station, free, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.ptreyesbooks.com/state-of-fire-kaufmann)

26 OCTOBER 2024 — saturday

  • Christian Georgescu's multimedia production House of The Highest and Most Pious (HOTHAMP) "depicts a prosperity preacher's search for meaning as he contends with modern life amid late stage Capitalism", Featuring spoken word performance from S.A. Griffin, Rich Ferguson, Kathleen Florence, and Christine Jordan, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd, Venice Beach, Los Angeles, Free, 2:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/house-of-the-highest-and-most-pious-tickets-962479872207?aff=ebdsoporgprofile)

27 OCTOBER 2024 — sunday

  • Small Press Traffic and the Belladonna* School for Feminist Practice and Poetics presents "Reading and Writing through Hoa Nguyen", a four session (October 27, November 10, November 24, and December 8) workshop centered around discussion of Nguyen's work and generative writing exercises, Hosted by author Zoe Tuck, Bedroom Vowel, Virtual on Zoom, $80-200, 1:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.smallpresstraffic.org/event/reading-and-writing-through-hoa-nguyen)
  • This house concert will feature the Ursonate, an experimental sound poem composed by the German Dada artist and poet Kurt Schwitters in 1924, and phonetic poetry by Antonin Artaud, Hugo Ball, Raoul Hausmann, and Theo van Dousburg, as well as works composed by Jaap Blonk, held at a private residence in Berkeley, admission $40 via Venmo @harry-bernstein, 5:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.jaapblonk.com/Pages/ontour.html, or email, harry@fullplatemedia.com)
  • "Writing Toward the Light" online workshop will be led by author Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, and poet Danusha Laméris, Bonfire Opera, four Sundays in October (October 6, 13, 20, and 27); Workshop sessions will include a craft discussion, a Q&A period, and an in-class writing session, Virtual on Zoom, $250, 4:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.danushalameris.com/offers/xFozUZVF/checkout)

28 OCTOBER 2024 — monday

29 OCTOBER 2024 — tuesday

30 OCTOBER 2024 — wednesday

31 OCTOBER 2024 — thursday


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