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Rose Black and Hannah Sward

27 APRIL 2023 — thursday

Poetry Flash presents "An Evening of Poetry & Memoir," reading and discussion with poet Rose Black, Green Field, and memorist Hannah Sward, Strip, both writers work with Right to Write Press, a nonprofit that supports emerging writers who are incarcerated in California prisons; in-person, 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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Hannah Sward's new book is Strip: A Memoir. She tells of being abandoned by her mother and living with her poet father on an island with no stores or cars. Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee says, "Hannah Sward's memoir of how she blundered into the sex industry is touchingly honest, and written with a light touch." Booklist wrote, "Elegant prose, stripped of all sensationalism and demands for pity…a fresh, literary addition to the courageous and resonant addiction-memoir genre." Her writing has appeared in Halcoyne, Arts & Letters, Red Wheelbarrow, and Porter Gulch Review, among other magazines. She was Editor and Columnist at Third Street Villager Los Angeles, and has written for Fix and Your Tango. A longtime contributor at Erotic Review, she is also a Board member of Right to Write Press, a nonprofit that supports emerging writers who are incarcerated.

Rose Black's poetry books are Clearing, Winter Light, and Green Field. David St. John says, "Rose Black's superb new collection of poems, Green Field, is a sobering volume of recollections, reflections and meditations upon a life's ravaged hopes, the echoes of a personal past, and the raw realities of our present. Like fables and dreams gone dark in the lens, these poems instruct us in the complex measures we need to employ in determining what values still remain—and endure—in our lives." A Pushcart nominee, her poetry has been widely published, and her first two books are included in Yale's Beinecke Library for the Yale Collection of American Literature. She teaches poetry at Salinas Valley State Prison and is one of the founders of Right to Write Press, a nonprofit that promotes the growth of emerging poets who are incarcerated in California state prisons. She will read from her own work and from poetry by incarcerated writers, including Ubaldo Teque, Jr., who recently won first place in a statewide prison poetry contest with thousands of entries. She edited his chapbook, Niño Inmigrante. Rose Black lives and works at Renaissance Studios, an artists' collective in East Oakland.

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4 MARCH 2026 — wednesday

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Sandip Roy reads from Chapal Rani, the Last Queen of Bengal: The Life and Times of a Female Impersonator, in conversation with journalist Jeanne Carstensen, on Zoom and in person, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, for the Zoom, registration is required, free, 7:00 pm PST (www.eventbrite.com/e/sandip-roy-in-conversation-with-jeanne-carstensen-tickets-1979767252145?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com)
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5 MARCH 2026 — thursday

Rae Alexandra and Adrienne Simms present their new book, Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area, in-store and on Zoom, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free registration required for the Zoom, 7:00 pm PST (www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-party-for-unsung-heroines-35-women-who-changed-the-bay-area-tickets-1980084425820?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com)
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UC Berkeley Library and the Lunch Poems series present poet and translator Cindy Juyoung Ok, Ward Toward, Yale Series of Younger Poets, in a 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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6 MARCH 2026 — friday

The Center of Literary Arts of San José presents novelist Lauren Groff, in a reading from her latest novel, The Vaster Wilds, Hammer Theatre, 101 Paseo de San Antionio, San Jose, free, 6:30 pm (www.clasanjose.org)
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7 MARCH 2026 — saturday

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8 MARCH 2026 — sunday

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9 MARCH 2026 — monday

City Lights with Beyond Plastics, and SF Bay Chapter Physicians for Social Responsibility present Judith Enck in conversation with Adam Mahoney discussing their new book The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It's Too Late, Zoom, free, registration required, 6:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/judith-enck-with-adam-mahoney-tickets-1979780846807?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/judith-enck-with-adam-mahoney-the-problem-with-plastic)
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10 MARCH 2026 — tuesday

Cindy Cohn presents her new book, Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance, 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/cindy-cohn-privacys-defender-tickets-1979869193053?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/cindy-cohn-launch-party-for-privacys-defender)
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11 MARCH 2026 — wednesday

The Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers' Series at SDSU presents San Diego Poet Laureate Paola Capó-García in a reading from her most recent work, including Clap For Me That's Not Me, in-person, San Diego State University Library, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, in the Leon Williams Room, LL430, Love Library, Fourth Floor, free, 7:00 pm (library.sdsu.edu/events#event-details/6337cfc7-8539-417c-811a-ea823b24ce48)
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Dan Simon reads from his new novel, Ashland , in conversation with fiction writer, poet, and playwright 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/dan-simon-in-conversation-with-barry-gifford-tickets-1979870663451?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/dan-simon-in-conversation-with-barry-gifford
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12 MARCH 2026 — thursday

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13 MARCH 2026 — friday

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14 MARCH 2026 — saturday

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15 MARCH 2026 — sunday

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16 MARCH 2026 — monday

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17 MARCH 2026 — tuesday

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18 MARCH 2026 — wednesday

The Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers' Series at SDSU presents Amaranth Borsuk, scholar, poet, and book artist working at the intersection of print and digital media, in a reading from her recent work including W/\SH, a collaboration with Terri Witek, in-person, San Diego State University Library, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, in the Leon Williams Room, LL430, Love Library, Fourth Floor, free, 7:00 pm (library.sdsu.edu/events#event-details/61031f05-e592-445c-b1cb-1fd19e1bc8ec)
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Marc Francis in conversation with Jesse Ataide, writer and creator of QUEER MODERNISMS website, to celebrate Marc Francis's Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon, on Zoom, free, registration required, 6:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/marc-franciscurating-deviance-programming-the-queer-film-canon-tickets-1982314955394?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/marc-francis-curating-deviance-programming-the-queer-film-canon)
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19 MARCH 2026 — thursday

City Lights and the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University celebrate the publication of America, A Love Story, new poems on love, family, and art, with a reading by the poet and author, Camille T. Dungy, in conversation with poet Tonya M. Foster, on Zoom, free, registration required, 6:00 pm PDT (www.eventbrite.com/e/camille-t-dungy-in-conversation-with-tonya-m-foster-tickets-1982617001823?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/camille-t-dungy-in-conversation-with-tonya-m-foster)
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20 MARCH 2026 — friday

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21 MARCH 2026 — saturday

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22 MARCH 2026 — sunday

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23 MARCH 2026 — monday

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24 MARCH 2026 — tuesday

City Lights and Litquake co-present Hannah Lillith Assadi reading from and celebrating the publication of her new book, Paradiso 17: A Novel, in conversation with memoirist and novelist Ingrid Rojas Contreras, in-store, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 pm (citylights.com/events/hannah-lillith-assadi)
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25 MARCH 2026 — wednesday

Crystal Simone Smith celebratesthe publication of her new book, Common Sense (1776) Addressed to Today's Citizens of America: An Erasure, in conversation with poet Tongo Eisen-Martin, former San Francisco Poet Laureatem, 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/crystal-simone-smith-in-conversation-with-tongo-eisen-martin-tickets-1979876751661?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/crystal-simone-smith)
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A poetry reading from new books by acclaimed poets Dean Rader, Notes, with Matthew Zapruder reading from How To Continue, 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/dean-rader-with-matthew-zapruder-tickets-1979890798676?aff=oddtdtcreator, and citylights.com/events/dean-rader-with-matthew-zapruder)
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26 MARCH 2026 — thursday

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27 MARCH 2026 — friday

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28 MARCH 2026 — saturday

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29 MARCH 2026 — sunday

Poetry Flash presents a Sixteen Rivers Press Book Launch poetry reading by Dane Cervine, Children of Obscura: This Mysterious Human, Carolyn Miller, Random Universe, and Lenore Myers, Afterimages, 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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30 MARCH 2026 — monday

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31 MARCH 2026 — tuesday

University of San Francisco's MFA Writing Program Reading Series hosts poet Derrick Austin, reading from This Elegance, his forthcoming collection, he is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a Cave Canem Fellow, USFCA's McLaren Complex 252, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, free, 7:45 pm (www.usfca.edu/event/mfa-writing-program-reading-series-derrick-austin/13057164)
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