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3 AUGUST 2025 — sunday

• Art and Poetry Night with a poetry reading by Toronto poet Ayana Farooq and Lena Kaouki, poetry and cookies, with an exhibit of visual art, featuring an interactive game of daring wordplay, RSVP for full location, $10 per person, 7:30 to 9:30 (RSVP required: https://partiful.com/e/l5FpfYdRomEhlGjwSMgY)
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• Poetry Flash presents a reading featuring Lee Rossi, Say Anything, poems, and Lenore Weiss, Video Game Pointers, poems, and Pulp into Paper, a novel, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm (poetryflash.org).
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4 AUGUST 2025 — monday

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5 AUGUST 2025 — tuesday

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6 AUGUST 2025 — wednesday

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7 AUGUST 2025 — thursday

• Poetry Night Reading Series presents poet and translator Keith Ekiss, Burial Fragments, winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, and poet Robin Ekiss, with host Dr. Andy Jones, air-conditioned venue, John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street, Davis, 7:00 (www.poetryindavis.com)
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8 AUGUST 2025 — friday

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9 AUGUST 2025 — saturday

• Sacramento Poetry Alliance presents a poetry reading by Susan Cohen and Jeanne Wagner, One Needful Song, winner of the Catamaran Poetry Prize, open mic follows, 1169 Perkins Way, Sacramento, refreshments, 4:00 (see Sacramento Poetry Alliance on Facebook)
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• Sonoma County Fair presents "Poetry Share at the Fair"; come hear poets read their original poems entered into the Sonoma County Fair competition, E.C. Center Craft Building, Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Road, Santa Rosa, 1:00 (sonomacountyfair.com)
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• Willits Community Theatre presents a poetry experience with The Word-Music Continuum, "a unique performance ensemble uniting music with the spoken word," with Mendocino County poet Kirk Lumpkin, and Bay Area musicians Paul Mills on electric Guitar and Mark Wieder on electric and double bass, celebrating the release of their new CD, Wildflowers of Collaboration; an open mic will follow the featured performance, Willits Community Theatre Playhouse, 37 W. Van Lane, Willits, admission by donation but no one turned away for lack of funds, 7:00
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10 AUGUST 2025 — sunday

• Poetry reading by poet and translator Alan Bernheimer, From Nature, and poet, editor, and librarian Jacob Kahnon, Mine Eclogue, presented in a private home in Berkeley, $10 donation, 5:00 (Registration required, email event host at: Harry@fullplatemedia.com)
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• The 222 in Healdsburg presents David Seter, Sonoma County Poet Laureate, leading a generative writing workshop on Zoka Nature Writing, "Zoka" is the Japanese term for the transformative power of nature, seek out and discover overlooked natural objects in Healdsburg Plaza; participants will draft poems or pieces of short prose describing the nature subjects they find, The 222, located at 222 Healdsburg Avenue, 3:00-5:00 (Registration required, (the222.org/product/dave-seter)
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11 AUGUST 2025 — monday

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12 AUGUST 2025 — tuesday

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13 AUGUST 2025 — wednesday

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14 AUGUST 2025 — thursday

• San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck presents a poetry reading by Jennifer Hasegawa, Norma Cole, and Mary Burger, Poem Jam takes place on the second Thursday of each month unless otherwise noted, San Francisco Main Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Room, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 (415/557-4400, on.sfpl.org/08-14-25)
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15 AUGUST 2025 — friday

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16 AUGUST 2025 — saturday

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17 AUGUST 2025 — sunday

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18 AUGUST 2025 — monday

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19 AUGUST 2025 — tuesday

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20 AUGUST 2025 — wednesday

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21 AUGUST 2025 — thursday

• Poetry Night Reading Series presents Rhony Bhopla and Mariam Ahmed, with host Dr. Andy Jones, air-conditioned venue, John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street, Davis, 7:00 (www.poetryindavis.com)
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22 AUGUST 2025 — friday

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23 AUGUST 2025 — saturday

• Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library presents Raundi Moore-Kondo and Donna Spruijt-Metz, Claremont Helen Renwick Library, 208 N. Harvard Avenue, in the Claremont Village, Claremont, free, 2:00 (909/621-4902, www.claremontlibrary.org/monthly-poetry-readings.html)
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24 AUGUST 2025 — sunday

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25 AUGUST 2025 — monday

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26 AUGUST 2025 — tuesday

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27 AUGUST 2025 — wednesday

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28 AUGUST 2025 — thursday

• Writers Read presents a featured reader, open mic follows, maximum time for each reader is six minutes, with emcee Michael Riedell, Grace Hudson Museum, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, suggested donation $5, refreshments, featured reading 7:00, open mic 8:00 (For information, email: Michael Riedell, Innisfreeriedell@gmail.com)
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29 AUGUST 2025 — friday

• Cleyvis Natera reads from and presents her new novel, The Grand Paloma Resort, joined in conversation by Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
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30 AUGUST 2025 — saturday

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31 AUGUST 2025 — sunday

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