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David Baker and Rebecca Foust

10 NOVEMBER 2022 — thursday

Poetry Flash presents reading by David Baker, Whale Fall, and Rebecca Foust, Only, in-person, Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, masks are encouraged, free, 7:00 pm PST (510-649-1320, www.pegasusbookstore.com/pegasus-downtown; Poetry Flash: 510-525-5476)

Please join us for this first Poetry Flash Series in-person reading since February 2020! This reading is co-sponsored by Pegasus Books Downtown. Thank you for continuing to support Poetry Flash, our reading series, and independent bookselling during these changing times. We look forward to seeing you in person!

Books will be available for purchase and signing at the in-person event, and are also online at: bookshop.org/shop/poetryflash.

MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Acclaimed poet, educator, editor, and literary critic David Baker's new book of poetry is Whale Fall. He is the author or editor of nineteen books, and was poetry editor of The Kenyon Review for more than twenty-five years; he now curates the "Nature's Nature" feature for the magazine. Diane Seuss wrote in The Paris Review, "The craft of Whale Fall defies. It asserts, for me, a definition of poetry: an unbearable gulf of feeling made indelible by form." Linda Gregerson says, "From the shadow of the garfish to the memory of seabed in Ohio sandstone, nothing appears to be too slight or too immense for David Baker's powers of lyric transformation." His previous collections of poetry include Swift: New and Selected Poems, Scavenger Loop, Never-Ending Birds, which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, and Midwest Eclogue. Among his numerous honors are prizes and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, the Pushcart Foundation, and many more. He teaches at Denison University, and lives in Granville, Ohio.

Rebecca Foust's new poetry collection is Only. Ellen Bass says, "In Only, her luminous new collection of poems, Rebecca Foust's gifts are in full flower. Richly imagistic and achingly lyrical, these poems wrestle with the big questions—religion, immigration, climate change, politics, parenting, autism, and death—all on a deeply intimate level. Like an impressionist painter, she uses light to capture the immediacy of the present, the passage of time. Foust's most remarkable gift is showing us '…the world as it is: gorgeous in its mortal wound.'" She is the author of three previous collections, Paradise Drive, All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song, and, in collaboration with Lorna Stevens, God, Seed: Poetry & Art about the Natural World, and three chapbooks, including The Unexpected Ordnance Bin. Her work has appeared in The Hudson Review, Ploughshares, POETRY, and elsewhere. Her honors include the 2020 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry judged by Kaveh Akbar, the 2017-2019 Marin County Poet Laureateship, and fellowships from The Frost Place, Hedgebrook, and MacDowell.

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4 MAY 2026 — monday

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5 MAY 2026 — tuesday

City Lights presents Cinco De Mayo with ZYZZYVA, the legendary literary journal, celebrating Issue 132, with essayist Sarah Matsui, a 2025-2026 Steinbeck Fellow, and story writer Anita Felicelli, How We Know Our Time Travelers, drinks, eats, and a short reading hosted by ZYZZYVA editor Oscar Villalon, in-store, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 pm (citylights.com/events/zyzzyva-issue-132-cinco-de-mayo-celebration)
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6 MAY 2026 — wednesday

City Lights and Graywolf Press celebrate a book launch for Karen Tei Yamashita, Questions 27 & 28: A Novel, in conversation with Paul Yamazaki, Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale, both in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required for Zoom, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/karen-tei-yamashita-in-conversation-with-paul-yamazaki-tickets-1979949742980?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/karen-tei-yamashita-launch-event-for-questions-27-28-a-novel
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7 MAY 2026 — thursday

UC Berkeley Library and the Lunch Poems series present Brandon Brown, Work and The Four Seasons, in a poetry reading, Morrison Library (inside Doe Library), 101 Library Ct., University of California Berkeley campus, free, 12:10 pm (www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/lunch-poems)
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City Lights and Seven Stories Press present Barry Gifford, reading from and celebrating the publication of his new book, The Exception: Uncle Buck's Book of Irrepressible Navigation by Barry Gifford, both in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required for Zoom, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/barry-gifford-tickets-1980091826957?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/barry-gifford-3/)
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8 MAY 2026 — friday

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9 MAY 2026 — saturday

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10 MAY 2026 — sunday

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11 MAY 2026 — monday

City Lights, Stolen Relations, and Liveright Books present Linford D. Fisher discussing his new book, Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History, on Zoom, free, registration required, 6:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/linford-d-fisher-tickets-1979952507248?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/linford-d-fisher-stealing-america-the-hidden-story-of-indigenous-slavery-in-u-s-history)
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12 MAY 2026 — tuesday

City Lights and Graywolf Press present M Lin reading from The Memory Museum: Stories, and in conversation with novelist R.O. Kwon, Exhibit, both in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required for Zoom, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/m-lin-in-conversation-with-r-o-kwon-tickets-1979954865301?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/m-lin-in-conversation-with-r-o-kwon)
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13 MAY 2026 — wednesday

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14 MAY 2026 — thursday

San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck invites Yeva Johnson, Elena Gross and special guests to present at Poem Jam, SFPL's monthly poetry reading; the Main Library's poetry reading series takes place on the second Thursday of each month, unless otherwise noted, San Francisco Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Room, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 pm (on.sfpl.org/05-14-26)
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City Lights presents genre-busting poet and memoirist Eleni Sikelianos, reading from Memory Rehearsal, and in conversation with poet Matthew Zapruder, both in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required for Zoom, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/eleni-sikelianos-tickets-1979957203294?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/eleni-sikelianos-launch-party-for-memory-rehearsal)
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15 MAY 2026 — friday

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16 MAY 2026 — saturday

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17 MAY 2026 — sunday

Book Society presents "A Taste of the Land: Stories & Realities of Farming," an evening of conversation and farm fresh flavors with Jennifer Acker, Surrender, Andy Naja-Riese, CEO of the Agricultural Institute of Marin, and Tamara Hicks, Feast on the Farm, owner of Tomula Farms, Book Society, 2945 College Avenue, Berkeley, $45, members $30, 6:00-8:00 pm (www.booksociety.social/event-details/a-taste-of-the-land-stories-realities-of-farming)
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Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Molly Fisk, Walking Wheel, a novel-in-verse, and poet and translator Francesca Bell, What Small Sound, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).
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18 MAY 2026 — monday

City Lights and Alice James Books present award-winning poet Cole Swenson, reading from her new collection, Veer, both in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required for Zoom, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/cole-swenson-tickets-1979956665686?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/cole-swenson)
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19 MAY 2026 — tuesday

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20 MAY 2026 — wednesday

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21 MAY 2026 — thursday

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22 MAY 2026 — friday

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23 MAY 2026 — saturday

City Lights and Verso Books present Trevor Paglen presenting his new book, How To See Like A Machine: Images After AI, on Zoom, free, registration required, 11:00 am PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/trevor-paglen-how-to-see-like-a-machine-images-after-ai-tickets-1982667454729?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/trevor-paglen-how-to-see-like-a-machine-images-after-ai)
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24 MAY 2026 — sunday

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25 MAY 2026 — monday

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26 MAY 2026 — tuesday

City Lights and Human Rights First present Joshua Colangelo-Bryan discussing his new book, Through The Gates of Hell: American Injustice at Guatanamo Bay, in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/joshua-colangelo-bryan-through-the-gates-of-hell-tickets-1982668835860?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/joshua-colangelo-bryan-through-the-gates-of-hell-american-injustice-at-guatanamo-bay)
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Join the first meeting of Book Society's new Tough and Tannic Book Club, to discuss Walter Mosley's Gray Down: An Easy Rawlins Mystery, and other detectives and plots, with refreshments, Book Society, 2945 College Avenue, Berkeley, $30, members $15, 6:30-8:00 pm (www.booksociety.social/event-details/the-tough-tannic-book-club-gray-dawn)
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27 MAY 2026 — wednesday

City Lights and Melville House present Jeremy Lent, presenting his new book, Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All, both in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, registration required for Zoom, 7:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/jeremy-lent-ecocivilization-making-a-world-that-works-for-all-tickets-1982670686395?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/jeremy-lent-ecocivilization-making-a-world-that-works-for-all)
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