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PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Awards

2 DECEMBER 2023 — saturday

PEN Oakland presents the 34th Annual PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Awards, featuring winners of the Josephine Miles Award, Javier Zamora, Solito: A Memoir; Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind; Perennial Earth: Poetry by Wallace Stevens and Paintings by Alexis Serio, edited by John N. Serio; T.J. English, Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld; Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling: A Novel; Jenny Xie, The Rupture Tense; Kobena Mercer, Alain Locke & The Visual Arts; D.S. Marriott, Before Whiteness; Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, and Mario Hernandez, Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection; the winners of the Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award, Louise Meriwether and the late Sara Webster Fabio, Boss Soul, Soul Ain't Soul Is, Together to the Tune of Coltrane's Equinox, JuJus Alchemy of the Blues; the winners of the Adelle Foley Award, The Daily KOS and the late Joyce Wong; and the winner of the Reginald Martin Award for Excellence in Criticism, Tressie McMillan Cottom; Rockridge Branch of the Oakland Library, 5366 College Avenue, Oakland, free, 2:00-5:00 pm PST (More information here: oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/6553cf82b6d98938007f62d0)




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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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