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Kim Addonizio

Sierra Poetry Festival: Kim Addonizio, Randall Mann, Annie Finch, Anthony Cody, more

12 APRIL 2025 — saturday

The ninth annual Sierra Poetry Festival, "Where Hope and History Rhyme," is an international festival marking National Poetry Month from the foothills of California's Gold Country to the High Sierra, celebrating the spoken word with readings, workshops, a literary fair, and youth performances, preceded by a month of pre-festival pop-up poetry events throughout the community; the Festival mainstage will feature Keynote address, "Hope, Uncertainty, and Creativity Notes on Living and Writing," by acclaimed poet and fiction writer Kim Addonizio, Exit Opera, with guitarist Danny Caron; morning readings by Anthony Cody, Borderland Apocrypha, Brynn Saito, Under a Future Sky, and writer, editor, and writing coach Karen Terry; Morning Workshops, "The Archival Self," with Anthony Cody, "Ancestral Poetics," with Brynn Saito, and "Responding to Current Events with Poems of History and Hope," with Karen Terrey; Open Mic Winners presented by zsa'lai; Poetry Out Loud with student finalists; "Putting the Punk Back in Poetry," with Joey Henry, Nevada County Youth Laureate; "A Conversation with poet and scholar Annie Finch, A Poet's Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry and Calendars and Eve, poet Randall Mann, Deal: New and Selected Poems,, and classicist and translator Christopher Childers, moderated by Maxima Kahn; Afternoon readings with Cloudy Rhodes Carrier, Judy Crowe, Iranian-raised poet and translator from the Persian, Armen Davoudian, The Palace of Forty Pillars, and Mai Der Vang, Yellow Rain, Northern California Book Award-winner, Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and American Book Award-winner; Workshops: "Joining Poetry's Dances: Explorations in the Magic of Meter," with Annie Finch, "The Sound of Sound," with essayist and fiction writer Sands Hall; a selection of literary organizations will exhibit, Poetry Flash plans to be there; The Center for the Arts, 314 W. Main Street, Grass Valley, a full pass for workshops and readings is $45, purchase online; general admission $20-$45, free for students, Military, Veterans, and Gold Star families, 8:30 am-5:00 pm PDT (More information and tickets here: www.sierrapoetryfestival.org)




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12 JULY 2025 — saturday

13 JULY 2025 — sunday

14 JULY 2025 — monday

15 JULY 2025 — tuesday

  • Jackie Thomas-Kennedy reads from her new novel, The Other Wife, joined in conversation by Carol Edgarian, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)

16 JULY 2025 — wednesday

17 JULY 2025 — thursday

  • City Lights and Shakespeare and Company, a bookstore in Paris, celebrate the publication of The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews, edited by Adam Biles, he will be in conversation with Sylvia Whitman, the proprietor of Shakespeare and Company, and Peter Maravelis, Events Director at City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, Zoom, free, Noon (citylights.com/events/adam-biles-sylvia-whitman-in-conversation-with-peter-maravelis)
  • Poetry Night Reading Series presents Dane Cervine, Nine Volt Nirvana, and Adela Najarro, with host Dr. Andy Jones, air-conditioned venue, John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street, Davis, 7:00 (www.poetryindavis.com)
  • Poets Molly Fisk and Kim Shuck present poems from varied perspectives about wildfire, flooding and related catastrophes in California from the California Fire & Water anthology; they will be joined by six other contributors to the anthology, Gene Berson, Heather Bourbeau, Aileen Cassinetto, Susan Cohen, Alison Luterman, and Maw Shein Win, California Fire & Water anthology, San Francisco Main Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Room, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 (415/557-4400, on.sfpl.org/07-17-25)
  • City Lights and Verso Books celebrate the publication of EVERYTHING IS NOW: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde–Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop, this groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from J. Hoberman, the legendary writer on art and film, Zoom, free, 6:00 pm (www.eventbrite.com/e/j-hoberman-tickets-1295155518019?aff=oddtdtcreator)
  • Miranda S. Spivack reads from her new book, Backroom Deals in Our Backyards, a groundbreaking look at how ordinary people are fighting back against local governments to keep their communities safe, joined in conversation by Victoria Baranetsky, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)

18 JULY 2025 — friday

19 JULY 2025 — saturday

20 JULY 2025 — sunday

  • Roberto Tejada, Why the Assembly Disbanded, celebrates the release of his new poetry collection, Carbonate of Copper: Poems, with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest Gander, Mojave Ghost, limited seating, Kerouac Alley, between City Lights Bookstore and Vesuvio Cafe, 257 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 1:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/forrest-gander-with-roberto-tejada)
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading featuring Rachel Richardson, Smother, and Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Mothersalt, 2727 California Street, a Cooperative Art Gallery, Berkeley, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).

21 JULY 2025 — monday

  • Blue Light Press presents "Eleven Poets from the Blue Light Press Summer Workshop," a poetry reading by Barbara Saxton, Mylo Schaaf, Susanna Praetzel, MJ Moore, Nancy Lee Melmon, Melissa Hobbs, Jennifer Grant, Robin Gabbert, Kay Barnes, Pat Barone, and Diane Frank, Society of Artists Gallery, 1513 3rd Street (at E Street), San Rafael, free, 6:00 pm (www.bluelightpress.com/events.php)

22 JULY 2025 — tuesday

23 JULY 2025 — wednesday

  • Bridget A. Lyons reads from and presents her new book, Entwined: Dispatches from the Intersection of Species, joined in conversation by Leigh Marz, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)

24 JULY 2025 — thursday

25 JULY 2025 — friday

26 JULY 2025 — saturday

  • Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library presents Karen Greenbaum-Maya and Diosa Xochiquetzalcóatl, 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)
  • The Bay Area Book Festival and Litquake present "Narrating the Mother," an intimate (virtual) conversation with Iman Mersal and Kate Briggs, two writers who reshape our understanding of motherhood and the art of living, moderated by Sri Lankan American novelist Nayomi Munaweera, Gilman Brewing, 912 Gilman Street, Berkeley, free, 10:00 am-11:00 am (www.eventbrite.com/e/narrating-the-mother-tickets-1328737101439)
  • Sacramento Poetry Alliance presents the VOICES reading with Cold River Press, 1169 Perkins Way, Sacramento, refreshments, 4:00 (see Sacramento Poetry Alliance on Facebook)
  • Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show presents a poetry reading by Judy Wells, Dale Jensen, Carol Dorf, LeeAnn Pickrell, and Judy Bertelsen, with host Kathryn Jordan, North Branch of the Berkeley Public Library,1170 The Alameda (at Hopkins), Berkeley, free, 2:00 (marinpoetrycenter.org/mec-events-category/traveling-show)

27 JULY 2025 — sunday

28 JULY 2025 — monday

29 JULY 2025 — tuesday

30 JULY 2025 — wednesday

31 JULY 2025 — thursday

  • "The Jingwei Bird" is a program that explores the complexity of climate change and our relationship to the planet through multi-disciplinary performances with Del Sol Quartet and San Francisco poet laureate Genny Lim, weaving newly composed music by Asian-American composers with powerful bilingual poetry, using storytelling and mythology to deepen our understanding and awareness of the environment, San Francisco Main Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Room, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 (415/557-4400, on.sfpl.org/07-31-25)

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