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Poetry Flash Reading Series
Denise Low and Lucille Lang Day
12/1, Berkeley
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Lucille Lang Day

Lucille Lang Day, Stephen Meadows, Kurt Schweigman

30 JUNE 2024 — sunday

Poetry Flash presents a reading by Lucille Lang Day, Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place, Stephen Meadows, Winter Work, and Kurt Schweigman, Confluences of Solitude, Jered's Pottery, 5743 A Horton Street, Emeryville, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org, jeredspottery.com).


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Lucille Lang Day is the author of four poetry chapbooks and seven full-length collections, most recently Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place. Left Margin LIT's David Roderick says, "Very few poets possess the acute observational power on display in Lucille Lang Day's Birds of San Pancho. In lyric, narrative, and meditative forms, Day's curiosity and love for the world radiate from every page. The life affirming vision in this book makes it a perfect read for our fraught time." She edited the anthology Poetry and Science: Writing Our Way to Discovery, coedited Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California and Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California, and authored two children's books and a memoir. Her honors include the Blue Light Poetry Prize, two PEN Oakland, Josephine Miles Literary Awards, the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, and eleven Pushcart Prize nominations. The founder and publisher of Scarlet Tanager Books, she is of Wampanoag, British, and Swiss/German descent.

Stephen Meadows's latest book of poems is Winter Work. Kitty Costello says, "These poems offer clear, clean witnessing of our beautiful aching world…Meadows brings us into deep sensory presence, filling us with reverence for each living moment, with grief for each precious, passing being." His previous collections include Releasing the Days, The Sounds of Rattles and Clappers, and The Dirt is Red Here. A descendant of the Ohlone peoples who built the Carmel Mission, gold rush families, and a farm family in Carmel Valley, his work has appeared in Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California and Red Indian Road West as well as the spoken word CDs Red Smoke Dawn Wind and Mignon Geli's Under a Buffalo Sun. His poem "For the Living" can be found on a bronze plaque along the Embarcadero on San Francisco's waterfront. Among his many occupations he worked for thirty years as a public radio programmer of folk music; he also worked for more than twenty years as an educator and mentor in public schools.

Kurt Schweigman's new book of poems is Confluences of Solitude. Jimmy Santiago Baca says, "Boisterous as rapids after rainfall, subversive and tactful, here's a poetry raised on fire and ice, love and loathing, sorrow and quiet joy. It bursts upon the reader like a wave of wind that unsettles our assumptions." Oglala/Sicangu Lakota born and raised in South Dakota, he formerly performed and published under the nom de plume of Luke Warmwater. With well over 200 featured readings he toured extensively across the United States and Europe with his spoken word poetry. Although long retired from competition, he won more than a few Poetry Slams. Published in several literary journals and anthologies, his forthcoming bilingual poetry book, Roots Define the Reach of my Branches, will be published by Gilgamesh Press in Mantua, Italy. Currently he is writing his first novel titled Sitting Bull in Paris, a work that is both contemporary and historical. He lives in Sonoma County, California.




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23 OCTOBER 2024 — wednesday

  • Graywolf Press presents a literary salon featuring an introduction by poet Dana Gioia, Interrogations at noon, followed by a reading and conversation with Maggie Nelson, Like Love: Essays and Conversations, Solmaz Sharif, Customs, Graywolf director and publisher Carmen Giménez, and Graywolf editorial director Ethan Nosowsky; All attendees will receive a custom tote bag; Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, The Store House, 2 Marina Blvd, Landmark Building C, San Francisco, starting at $50, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: graywolfpress.salsalabs.org/50thanniversarysalonsanfrancisco/index.html)
  • Linden Tree Books welcomes Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin to discuss their new Middle Grade historical adventure, The Bletchley Riddle, presented off site at Rinconada Library, 1213 Newell Road, Palo Alto, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.lindentreebooks.com/events-calendar)
  • City Arts and Lectures presents Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between The World & Me, to discuss his new essay collection, The Message, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, tickets start at $54, 7:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.cityarts.net/event/ta-nehisi-coates-4)

24 OCTOBER 2024 — thursday

25 OCTOBER 2024 — friday

  • Point Reyes Books welcomes Obi Kaufmann to discuss his newest book, The State of Fire: Why California Burns, with watercolor maps and paintings, Red Barn Classroom, 75 Bear Valley Road, Point Reyes Station, free, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.ptreyesbooks.com/state-of-fire-kaufmann)

26 OCTOBER 2024 — saturday

27 OCTOBER 2024 — sunday

  • Village Poets welcomes Lory Bedikian, Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body, and Mary E. Torregrossa, My Zocalo Heart, for a poetry reading followed by an open mic, refreshments, The Bolton Hall Museum, 10110 Commerce Avenue, Tujunga, free, 4:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: villagepoets.blogspot.com/2024/09/village-poets-presents-lory-bedikian.html)
  • Small Press Traffic and the Belladonna* School for Feminist Practice and Poetics presents "Reading and Writing through Hoa Nguyen", a four session (October 27, November 10, November 24, and December 8) workshop centered around discussion of Nguyen's work and generative writing exercises, Hosted by author Zoe Tuck, Bedroom Vowel, Virtual on Zoom, $80-200, 1:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.smallpresstraffic.org/event/reading-and-writing-through-hoa-nguyen)
  • This house concert will feature the Ursonate, an experimental sound poem composed by the German Dada artist and poet Kurt Schwitters in 1924, and phonetic poetry by Antonin Artaud, Hugo Ball, Raoul Hausmann, and Theo van Dousburg, as well as works composed by Jaap Blonk, held at a private residence in Berkeley, admission $40 via Venmo @harry-bernstein, 5:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.jaapblonk.com/Pages/ontour.html, or email, harry@fullplatemedia.com)
  • "Writing Toward the Light" online workshop will be led by author Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, and poet Danusha Laméris, Bonfire Opera, four Sundays in October (October 6, 13, 20, and 27); Workshop sessions will include a craft discussion, a Q&A period, and an in-class writing session, Virtual on Zoom, $250, 4:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.danushalameris.com/offers/xFozUZVF/checkout)
  • Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents the Dos Rios State Park Nature Poetry Walk, a two-and-a-half mile poetry walk featuring special guest poet Salvatore Salerno, Dos Rios State Park, 3559 Shiloh Road, Modesto, 9:00 am PDT (For more information, visit: www.mostpoetry.org/event/dos-rios-state-park-nature-poetry-walk)

28 OCTOBER 2024 — monday

29 OCTOBER 2024 — tuesday

  • City Lights Bookstore presents "The Dopamine Variety Show," a celebration of the queer literary organization, DOPAMINE, Books and Printed Matter, and the publication of The Sluts Anthology, edited by Michelle Tea, and fiction writer Clement Goldberg's new book, New Mistakes, featuring reading and discussion from Vera Blossom, Clement Goldberg, Brooke Palmieri, Naz Riahi, Shawn Stewart Ruff, and L Scully, hosted by Michelle Tea, Virtual on Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/the-dopamine-variety-show)
  • Hammer Museum welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest Gander for a reading from his anticipated collection, Mojave Ghost, Hammer Museum; 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, free, 7:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2024/poetry-forrest-gander)

30 OCTOBER 2024 — wednesday

  • Poetry at the Claremont Library presents 2024 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Paisley Rekdal, Nightingale, for a special Wednesday evening poetry reading, Claremont Library, 208 North Harvard Avenue, Claremont, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.facebook.com/fourthsaturdayspoetry)
  • City Lights Bookstore welcomes Eleni Stecopoulos to discuss her new book of essays, Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing, in conversation with Miranda Mellis, Demystifications, City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, and online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/eleni-stecopoulos)

31 OCTOBER 2024 — thursday


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