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C.S. Giscombe

C.S. Giscombe and Mary Gilliland

1 FEBRUARY 2024 — thursday

Poetry Flash presents a reading by poet and eco-activist Mary Gilliland, The Devil's Fools, and poet and professor C.S. Giscombe, Negro Mountain, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 7:00 pm PST (poetryflash.org).

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Mary Gilliland's recent poetry collections are The Devil's Fools, winner of the Codhill Press Pauline Uchmanowicz Poetry Award, and The Ruined Walled Castle Garden, Bright Hill Press Chapbook Prize-winner. Cynthia Hogue says, "[This] magisterial new collection, The Devil's Fools, opens in myth and magic, but its vast reach is deeply rooted in her reverence for earth and all earthly creations.…At once eco-sensual and erudite, Gilliland writes a nuanced poetry that richly investigates humanity's contradictory capacities to destroy and to love." Mary Gilliland is a recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center, a Cornell University Council on the Arts Faculty Grant, and the 2023 International Literary Seminars Kenya/Fence 1st Prize in Poetry. Her forthcoming books, In the pool of the sea's shoulder and Ember Days, will be published in 2024. She lives in Ithaca, New York.
C.S. Giscombe's new collection of poetry is Negro Mountain. Tyrone Williams says, "In the dreamscapes of these poems, survival depends on both 'Negro luck' and a knack for being a bit 'country.' A wolf (or coyote) in sheep's clothing, the fool on the hill is s/he who exposes 'the story's / sham,' that 'tiresome trope' of captivity or freedom, criminality or servitude, violence or resignation. Negro Mountain turns the tables on the sacrosanct." C.S. Giscombe is the author or co-author of fourteen books, including Giscome Road, winner of the Carl Sandburg Prize; Prairie Style, an American Book Award-winner; Border Towns; Ohio Railroads; and Train Music, in collaboration with book artist Judith Margolis. His honors include the African-American Literature and Culture Society's Stephen Henderson Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is professor and the Robert Hass Chair in English at University of California, Berkeley

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22 OCTOBER 2025 — wednesday

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23 OCTOBER 2025 — thursday

City Arts and Lectures presents photographer Richard Misrach discusses his new book, Half-Baked Stories about My Dead Mom, photographs of cargo ships to and from the Port of Oakland, in conversation with award-winning author and historian Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $49, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)
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24 OCTOBER 2025 — friday

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25 OCTOBER 2025 — saturday

Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library presents a reading by Nicelle Davis and Chiwan Choi, 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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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).
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27 OCTOBER 2025 — monday

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28 OCTOBER 2025 — tuesday

Womb House Books presents Francesca Wade, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, in conversation Jessica Ferri, owner of Womb House Books, Womb House Books, Temescal Alley, 470 49th Street, Oakland, free, 7:00 (www.eventbrite.com/e/jamie-hood-trauma-plot-at-womb-house-books-tickets-1404306952899?aff=ebdsoporgprofile)
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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)
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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
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30 OCTOBER 2025 — thursday

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31 OCTOBER 2025 — friday

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