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Steven Rood

Steven Rood, Richard Silberg, James M. LeCuyer

26 JUNE 2022 — sunday

Poetry Flash presents a reading by short story writer James M. Lecuyer, Duck Lessons, Richard Silberg, Associate Editor of Poetry Flash, and Steven Rood, Naming the Wind, Omnidawn Publishers, 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 virtual reading on Sunday, June 26 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. James LeCuyer's Stories for Clever Children can be found at ravenandwrenpress.com/raven-wren-bookstore.

MORE ABOUT THE READERS
James M. LeCuyer is a fiction writer, educator, and poet. His short story books include Duck Lessons and Threnody for Sturgeon. Lucille Lang Day says, "James LeCuyer's stories, rich with humor and imagination, provide insight into all stages of life…and his keen ear for dialogue enables him to bring a wide range of characters to life: fishermen, teachers, lovers, graduate students, spunky children, insolent teens. Whether writing poetically or satirically, he gives us stories that are fully realized and a great pleasure to read." His newest collection, Stories for Clever Children & All Curious and Thoughtful Adults, began as tales he spun for his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. LeCuyer holds three Masters degrees, has served in the United States Navy, worked as a commercial halibut and herring fisherman, a taxi driver, a report writer for the Berkeley Police Department, a technical writer and editor for UC Berkeley, and as a high school English teacher at School of the Arts in San Francisco.

Steven Rood is a poet and practicing trial lawyer. His new collection is Naming the Wind. C.S. Giscombe says, "Late in this ranging and wild book, …Steven Rood offers this in response to an older poet's challenge—'I have power, depth, fear / as my tones, and uncertainty as my shape.' And the beauty and the multiplicity of uncertainties—that call, that calling forth—is what this book stakes its being on." The publisher, Omnidawn, notes: "Wind moves through this collection, opening the poems to the dying beauty of the natural world, to the weathers inside the psyche and without, and to the connections between a family and between the speaker and his mentor, the great poet Jack Gilbert. The collection navigates the intimacies of human relationships with others, the challenges of working as a lawyer trying to maintain integrity as others fall prey to corporate greed, and the complexity of holding a Jewish identity while being awake to tradition's hold on the mind and its cost." An earlier iteration of the manuscript for this book was a 2019 National Poetry Series Finalist. Rood's poems appear in Quarterly West, Marin Poetry Center Anthology, Fugue, Lyric, Hayden's Ferry Review, Tar River Poetry, New Letters, The Marlboro Review, The Atlanta Review, The Southern Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

Richard Silberg is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently The Horses: New and Selected Poems and Deconstruction of the Blues, recipient of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award and Northern California Book Award finalist. D. Nurkse says, "Dynamic, kaleidoscopic, shot through with a thousand faces and voices too real to be characters, Richard Silberg's work is a Chaucerian pilgrimage to strange and uncannily familiar places—Fremont, the Lower East Side, 'the humped island of Mind.' The Horses is a journey that dazzles wherever it goes as Silberg, 'an ecstatic balding older man / in a striped tee shirt,' slips into words and finds a way to make them accelerate, plummet, and soar. The goal is a new self, a way to ride out the old isms towards a possible future. The Horses is a deeply serious, wild, and powerful contribution to American letters." He co-translated, with Clare You, The Three Way Tavern, by Ko Un, Northern California Book Award-winner in Translation; Flowers Long For Stars, by Oh Sae-Young; This Side of Time, by Ko Un; and I Must Be the Wind, by Moon Chung-Hee. His poems appear in The American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Volt, Parthenon West Review, ZYZZYVA, and New American Writing. Richard Silberg is Associate Editor of Poetry Flash.




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19 MARCH 2024 — tuesday

  • City Lights presents Maurice Carlos Ruffin reading from his new novel, The American Daughters; this work of historical fiction follows Adi, an enslaved girl in New Orleans, and her journey from oppression to liberation after meeting a free Black woman and joining the Daughters, a secret sisterhood of spies working to undermine the Confederacy,
  • Cobalt Poets presents a reading with featured poet and performance artist Lynda La Rose, Sunshine and Concrete, followed by an open mic, online via Zoom, free, 7:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)

20 MARCH 2024 — wednesday

  • Medicine for Nightmares presents the Last Supper Party, a monthly spoken word and music series curated by Kimi Sugioka, featuring Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Anna Allen, and Alan Chazaro, followed by an open mic, Medicine for Nightmares, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, free, 7:00-9:00 pm PDT (RSVP to attend: medicinefornightmares.com/events)
  • City Lights presents Lucy Sante reading from her memoir, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition, in discussion with author, journalist, performer and painter Cintra Wilson, Sante will reflect on her family's immigration from Belgium and their transition to life in the U.S., as well as discussing her own transition from male to female in 2021, online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm PDT(To register, visit Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/lucy-sante-tickets-828921084277?aff=oddtdtcreator)
  • Temple Sinai presents "Facets of Spirituality," a poetry reading by Karen Marker, Murray Silverstein, Red Studio, and Richard Silberg, poet and Associate Editor of Poetry Flash, hosted by Richard Silberg, refreshments, Temple Sinai, 2808 Summit Street, please use Webster Street entrance, Oakland, free, 7:00 to 8:15 pm PDT (More information here: www.oaklandsinai.org/event/facets-of-spirituality-poetry-readingalbers-chapel.html)

21 MARCH 2024 — thursday

  • The Poetry Center and Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability present a night on "Poetry, Autism and Our Neurodivergent Future," featuring poet and educator Chris Martin, curator of Milkweed Edition's Multiverse series, and debut poet Imane Boukaila, Tressing Motions at the Edge of Mistakes,The Poetry Center, Humanities Building 512, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, free, 1:00 to 2:30 pm PDT poetry.sfsu.edu/event/chris-martin-and-imane-boukaila-poetry-autism-and-our-neurodivergent-future)
  • Speaking Axolotl, a monthly Latinx/Chicanx reading every third Thursday of the month, hosted by poet Josiah Luis Alderete, Baby Axolotls & Old Pochos, Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, and online via Zoom, free, 7:00-9:00 pm PDT (More information here: medicinefornightmares.com/events)

22 MARCH 2024 — friday

  • Beyond Baroque presents "At the Threshold: Translation and Transposition," an evening of original and translated poetry, featuring poet and translator Piotr Florczyk, reading from Building the Barricade, a collection of poems by Anna Swirszcynska, translated from the Polish to English by Florczyk, joined by poet Sarah Maclay, Nightfall Marginalia, who will read from her original work, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, free, 8:00 pm PDT (RSVP to attend: www.beyondbaroque.org)

23 MARCH 2024 — saturday

  • Fourth Saturdays presents a reading with featured poets Curtis Hayes, Bottleneck Slide, and Wendy Rainey, Hollywood Church, Claremont Helen Renwick Library, 208 N. Harvard Avenue, Claremont, free, 2:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.facebook.com/fourthsaturdayspoetry)
  • Point Reyes Books presents authors Margaret Juhae Lee and Tessa Hulls, reading and discussing their new memoirs, Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History and Feeding Ghosts, respectively, Dance Palace, 503 B Street, Point Reyes Station, free, 2:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.ptreyesbooks.com/event/margaret-juhae-lee-and-tessa-hulls)

24 MARCH 2024 — sunday

  • Medicine for Nightmares presents the Odd Verse Reading Series, a poetry reading and open mic that amplifies underrepresented voices in a safe space for discourse, community solidarity, and collective action for social justice, Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, free, donations welcome, 4:30-7:00 pm PST (More information here: medicinefornightmares.com/events)

25 MARCH 2024 — monday

  • City Lights presents Wayne Koestenbaum reading from his new book, Stubble Archipelago; this combination of thirty-six poetic bulletins was largely written on-the-go, fashioned from phrases written while walking the streets of New York City; he would incorporate fragments scribbled on notebook paper or dictated into his phone into quasi-sonnets, onlline Zoom, Free, 6:00pm to 8:00pm PDT (To register, visit Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/wayne-koestenbaum-tickets-776876778357?aff=oddtdtcreator)

26 MARCH 2024 — tuesday

27 MARCH 2024 — wednesday

28 MARCH 2024 — thursday

  • City Lights presents professor and author Judith Butler discussing their new book Who's Afraid of Gender?, an examination of how recent attacks on gender have become central to right-wing movements and reactionary politics, and an investigation of how "anti-gender ideology movements" have transformed gender from a subset of individual identity into an illusion of threat (to family, children, society, culture, and humanity itself) for emerging authoritarian regimes, fascist formations, and trans-exclusionary feminists,
  • Writers Read Ukiah presents a reading celebrating the new climate change anthology Dear Human at the Edge of Time, featuring readings by climate activist Jeanine Pfeiffer and other contributors, followed by an open mic, Grace Hudson Museum, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, free, suggested donation $5, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, contact Michael Riedell at innisfreeriedell@gmail.com)
  • Medicine for Nightmares presents a reading featuring Valerie Werder, reading from her new novel, Thieves, and Bay Area poet and publisher David Buuck, Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, free, 7:00-9:00 pm PDT (More information here: medicinefornightmares.com/events)

29 MARCH 2024 — friday

30 MARCH 2024 — saturday

  • Point Reyes Books presents poet Jane Hirshfield, The Beauty, longlisted for the National Book Award, reading and discussing her latest book, The Asking: New & Selected Poems, in conversation with Michael Lerner, president and co-founder of Commonweal, Commonweal, 451 Mesa Road, Bolinas, $20 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds, 2:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.ptreyesbooks.com/event/living-poems)
  • Beyond Baroque presents the fourth annual "30 in 30 Poetry Workshop," led by Brendan Constantine, The Opposites Game, participants will engage in discussions to inspire their writing and, at the end of each session, take home packets and materials to write a poem a day, runs online via Zoom, five Saturdays, March 30-April 27, $160 for members, $180 general admission, early bird sale prices are $155 for members, $170 general admission, ending on March 27, 11:00 am-1:00 pm PDT (Purchase tickets here: www.beyondbaroque.org/intensive_workshops.html)

31 MARCH 2024 — sunday


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