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Forrest Gander

City Lights 70th Anniversary! Forrest Gander, James Cagney, much more

23 JULY 2023 — sunday

City Lights Books celebrates its 70th anniversary with a poetry reading by some of the Bay Area's best poets, featuring Josiah Luis Alderete, James Cagney, Meilani Clay, soledad con carne, Donna de la Perrière, Forrest Gander, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Juba Kalamka, Joseph Lease, D.A. Powell, Jenny Qi, Dean Rader, Barbara Jane Reyes, Kim Shuck, Maw Shein Win, and Matthew Zapruder, musical accompaniment TBA, come celebrate the landmark bookstore and its history of poetry and publishing, Kerouac Alley, next to City Lights Books, between Grant and Columbus Avenues, San Francisco, free, 1:00 pm PDT (More information here: citylights.com/events)




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25 OCTOBER 2025 — saturday

26 OCTOBER 2025 — sunday

  • Poetry Flash presents Women in a Golden State, California Poets at 60 and Beyond, an anthology celebration and contributor's reading featuring poets Laurel Benjamin, Caroline Goodwin, Robin Michel, and Lisa Rosenberg, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm (poetryflash.org).

27 OCTOBER 2025 — monday

28 OCTOBER 2025 — tuesday

29 OCTOBER 2025 — wednesday

  • Poetry reading by Marcia Falk, The Sky Will Overtake You, and Lucille Lang Day, Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place; she is publisher of Scarlet Tanager Books, reading introduced by Richard Silberg, homemade goodies will be served, sponsored by Temple Sinai's Fine Arts Committee on Culture and Community, Temple Sinai Chapel, 2808 Summit, at 28th Street between Webster and Summit, enter at gate in parking lot, Oakland, free, 7:00 (www.oaklandsinai.org/event/poetry-reading1.html)
  • Sacramento Poetry Center presents "Dangerous Women," a poetry reading by Molly Fisk, Kim Shuck, Moira Magneson, and Tricia Caspers, open mic follows, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, 7:30

30 OCTOBER 2025 — thursday

31 OCTOBER 2025 — friday


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