Dane Cervine, Carolyn Miller, Lenore Myers 3/29, Berkeley more info
Molly Fisk and Francesca Bell 5/17, Berkeley more info
Lois P. Jones and William O'Daly, with open mic
21 MAY 2023 — sunday
Poetry of the Sierra Foothills presents a reading by poet Lois P. Jones, winner of the 2023 Alpine Fellowship and author of Night Ladder, finalist for the Julie Suk Award, and poet and translator William O'Daly, The New Gods, followed by an open mic, hosted by Lara Gularte, El Dorado County Poet Laureate, Chateau Davell Winery, 3020 Vista Tierra Drive, Camino, free, 2:00 pm PDT
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)
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).
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)