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Poetry Flash Reading Series
Richard Tillinghast, Jeanne Foster, Alan Williamson
6/19, Berkeley
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Jan Beatty

Kim Addonizio, Jan Beatty, Brittany Perham

10 OCTOBER 2024 — thursday

Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Jan Beatty, Dragstripping, Kim Addonizio, Exit Opera, and Brittany Perham, Double Portrait, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 7:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).


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MORE ABOUT THE READERS

Jan Beatty's new book of poems is Dragstripping. Sandra Cisneros says, "Jan Beatty writes at full throttle, a plunge into the self without flinching. These poems are highways, the finish lines smoking with 'the truth that drags and bitters.' Stories stripped raw. Brave, honest, death-defying, Beatty's poetry roars." Her previous poetry collections include The Body Wars, Jackknife: New and Selected Poems, which won the Paterson Poetry Prize, and The Switching/Yard, among others. Her memoir, American Bastard, won the Red Hen Nonfiction Prize. Jan Beatty has worked as a waitress, in abortion clinics, and in maximum-security prisons, and is professor emerita at Carlow University, where she directed the MFA and creative writing programs and the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops.

Kim Addonizio's new book of poems is Exit Opera. Booklist said of her work, "Addonizio's poems are like swallows of cold, grassy white wine. They go down easy and then, moments later, you feel the full weight of their impact.…A smoky-voiced chanteuse, she sings the blues of lost youth and past wildness, protesting the assaults of age, the void left by a grown child and a deceased father, and the sorrows of loved ones battling disease. High heels and hangovers, horror movies and empty hotel rooms, regrets and resignation, elements all in Addonizio's articulation of lust, the quest for oblivion, and the body's unrelenting archiving of every pleasure and pain.…" Her previous collections include Now We're Getting Somewhere, Tell Me, a finalist for the National Book Award, Mortal Trash, and Wild Nights. She has also published two novels, two story collections, two craft books on writing, The Poet's Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius, and a memoir, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life. Her awards include fellowships from the NEA, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and two Pushcart Prizes, among other honors. She teaches privately online, and at conferences and workshops internationally.

Brittany Perham's most recent collection, Double Portrait, was selected by Claudia Rankine for the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Donna Masini says, "Doubling back or spiraling around, incantatory, off-kilter, more song than story, the gorgeously obsessive poems in Double Portrait reflect the ways in which we are sprung into, or thrown off, orbit by desire, grief, sex, love—or simply facing the puzzle of another…[A] smart, surprising, and compelling new collection." Her previous collections include The Curiosities, and a chapbook with Kim Addonizio, The Night Could Go in Either Direction. Her work has received support from Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, James Merrill House Foundation, University of Kentucky Mill House Residency Program, Vermont Studio Center, Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program, and Yaddo. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco.




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19 JUNE 2025 — thursday

  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Richard Tillinghast, Night Train to Memphis, Jeanne Foster, Your Form Became My Own, and Alan Williamson, The Pattern More Complicated: New and Selected Poems, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 7:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).

20 JUNE 2025 — friday

  • Firefighter Kelly Ramsey reads from her new book, Wildfire Days: A Woman, a Hotshot Crew, and the Burning American West, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)

21 JUNE 2025 — saturday

  • Women in the Arts, a program with choreographer Kathryn Roszak, artistic director of Danse Lumière, presenters of dance performances based on literary works: screenings/performances, discussion, and tributes to Berkeley women in the arts; Kathryn Roszak's film, Women at the Top, featuring ballet dancer Lia Cirio will be screened, Berkeley Public Library, Central Branch, 2090 Kittredge Street, at Shattuck, downtown Berkeley free admission, 1:00 (RSVP by email, dance@dlkdance.com)
  • Beyond Baroque presents a fiction writers reading from Beyond Baroque's Monday Night Workshop, with writers Raquel Baker (workshop facilitator), Pat Branch, Sergey Denisov, River Langford, Julia Lopate, Jill Michaels, Jen Tilman, in person and livestreamed on YouTube, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, free admission, 2:00-4:00 (www.eventbrite.com/e/monday-night-workshop-reading-tickets-1366484153889?aff=oddtdtcreator)

22 JUNE 2025 — sunday

23 JUNE 2025 — monday

24 JUNE 2025 — tuesday

  • Leila Mottley reads from her new novel, The Girls Who Grew Big, joined in conversation by Ingrid Rojas Contreras; Leila Mottley is the winner of the Northern California Book Award for her previous novel, Nightcrawling, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)

25 JUNE 2025 — wednesday

  • Journalist Megan Greenwell reads from her new book, Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream, joined in conversation by Mike Isaac, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)

26 JUNE 2025 — thursday

  • Adam Becker reads from and presents his new book, More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)

27 JUNE 2025 — friday

28 JUNE 2025 — saturday

  • Book Launch for Spirit of Place: Mendocino County Women Poets Anthology, a celebration with a reading by many of the contributing poets; the anthology features one hundred women poets from across Mendocino County, the anthology is a special project of Mendocino County's first Poet Laureate, Devreaux Baker; Spirit of Place was edited by Devreaux Baker, Kate Dougherty, Maureen Epstein, Georgina Marie Guardado, Karen Lewis, and Blake More; Gallery Books will be on hand to sell copies; Main Gallery, Mendocino Art Center, 45200 Little Lake Street, Mendocino, free, 4:00-6:00 (For more information, email: dbaker@mcn.org)

29 JUNE 2025 — sunday

  • Café Frida Gallery presents a Poetry Festival, readers TBD, see website calendar, Café Frida, 300 South A Street, Santa Rosa (www.cafefridagallery.com)
  • Café Frida Poetry Festival presents Jack Crimmins, Lisa Shulman, Dave Holt, Melissa Eleftherion, readings from Phyllis Meshulam's new book by her daughter Audrey, John Duran, Briahn Kelly-Brennan, and Timothy Williams, hosted by Gwynn O'Gara, Café Frida, 300 South A Street, Santa Rosa, free, 1:00-3:00 (www.cafefridagallery.com)

30 JUNE 2025 — monday


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