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Rebecca Foust
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Rebecca Foust and Janée J. Baugher

7 APRIL 2024 — sunday

Poetry Flash presents a reading by Janée J. Baugher, Seattle poet and author of The Ekphrastic Writer: Creating Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction, and Rebecca Foust, Only, Marin County Poet Laureate emerita, 2727 California Street, Berkeley, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).


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MORE ABOUT THE READERS

Poet Janée J. Baugher is the author of the only book of its kind, The Ekphrastic Writer: Creating Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction. WomensVoicesforChange.org calls it, "a guidebook that comprehensively treats the subject of ekphrasis at the same time it provides an inspiriting and practical guide to those who aspire to practice it." She's published two books of poetry, The Coordinates of Yes and The Body's Physics, which David Roderick says "demonstrates extraordinary poetic vision, and her lyric style is both tender and resolutely connected to the body." A featured poet both at the Library of Congress and on Seattle TV, Janée Baugher was a judge for the 2023 "Frame to Frames" ekphrastic film prize (Fotogenia Festival in Mexico City). As a collaborator she's had poems adapted for the stage and set to music at Interlochen Center for the Arts (Michigan), University of Cincinnati, Contemporary Dance Theatre (Ohio), Dance Now! Ensemble (Florida), Otterbein University, and University of North Carolina-Pembroke. Baugher is an assistant editor at Boulevard magazine and recipient of a 2024 CityArtist grant from the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.

Rebecca Foust's seventh poetry collection is Only. Ellen Bass says, "In Only, her luminous new collection of poems, Rebecca Foust's gifts are in full flower. Richly imagistic and achingly lyrical, these poems wrestle with the big questions—religion, immigration, climate change, politics, parenting, autism, and death—all on a deeply intimate level. Like an impressionist painter, she uses light to capture the immediacy of the present, the passage of time." Her previous collections include Paradise Drive; All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song; in collaboration with Lorna Stevens, God, Seed: Poetry & Art about the Natural World; and three chapbooks, including The Unexpected Ordnance Bin. Her work has appeared in The Hudson Review, Ploughshares, POETRY, and elsewhere. Her honors include the 2023 New Ohio Review prize, 2020 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry judged by Kaveh Akbar, and fellowships from The Frost Place, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Sewanee Writers' Conference. As Marin County Poet Laureate 2017-2019, her program, "Poetry as Sanctuary," featured readings by local immigrant poets.




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7 JUNE 2026 — sunday

  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Janée J. Baugher, The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles, with poet and psychoanalyst Alice Jones, Cadence of Vanishing, a memoir, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm (poetryflash.org).

8 JUNE 2026 — monday

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11 JUNE 2026 — thursday

  • Skylight Books welcomes Mary H.K. Choi presenting Pool House, in conversation with writer and podcast host Yasi Salek, Skylight Books, 1818 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 pm (RSVP recommended: www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-mary-hk-choi-presents-pool-house-w-yasi-salek)
  • San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck and special guests present at SFPL's Monthly poetry reading, Poem Jam, the Main Library's poetry reading series takes place on the second Thursday of each month, unless otherwise noted, San Francisco Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Room, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 pm (on.sfpl.org/06-11-26)

12 JUNE 2026 — friday

  • Indigenous Voices Literary Series presents Elise Paschen, Osage author of Blood Wolf Moon, poems, in conversation with Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate Emerita and the event curator; Paschen will read her poems and share stories about her famous mother, prima ballerina Maria Tallchief, travels in Europe, and Osage culture; the film Killers of the Flower Moon takes its title from Paschen's poem "Wi'-gi-e," which references late springtime frosts in the Osage lunar cycle; Paschen is the former Director of The Poetry Society of America, raised in Chicago, she returns to Oklahoma's Osage reservation for annual dances; The 222 Series in the Paul Mahder Gallery, 222 Healdsburg Avenue, Healdsburg, $20, 7:00 pm (For more information, contact Erin Partridge, 707-473-9150, the222.org/product/indigenous-voices-series-elise-paschen)
  • Skylight Books welcomes UC Riverside MFA Program presenting a night of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction celebrating graduating Creative Writing students, Skylight Books, 1818 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 6:30 pm (RSVP recommended: www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-uc-riverside-mfa-reading-0)

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  • Fourth Saturdays Poetry at the Claremont Library presents a reading by Nancy Lynée Woo, poet and teaching artist, and Ron Koertge, Pandora's Kitchen: Poems, award-winning poet and young adult novelist, Helen Renwick Library, 208 North Harvard Avenue, Claremont, free, 2:00 pm (www.claremontlibrary.org/monthly-poetry-readings.html)

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