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Poetry Flash Reading Series
Alison Luterman and Yiskah Rosenfeld
11/16, Berkeley
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Rosa Lane and Camille Norton
11/20, Berkeley
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Jan Beatty
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LA Times Festival of Books: Jan Beatty, David St. John, Kim Dower, more

26 APRIL 2025 — saturday

The 30th annual LA Times Festival of Books presents indoor and outdoor events including over 200 author and celebrity panels, one-on-one conversations, music, film screenings, book signings, exhibitor booths, Children's Stage, food and cooking demos, bilingual programming and more, authors include poet Amanda Gorman, novelist Percival Everett, Pico Iyer, Chelsea Handler, Stacey Abrams, and many more; today's Poetry Stage features emcees Elena Karina Byrne and Marty L. Williams; 10:00 am: Airea D. Matthews, Bread and Circus; 10:20 am: Remica Bingham-Risher, Room Swept Home; 10:40 am: Cindy Juyoung Ok, Ward Toward; 11:00 am: Alison C. Rollins, Black Bell; 11:20 am: David St. John, Prayer for My Daughter; 11:40 am: Consuelo Wise, boy; Noon: Ariana Benson, Black Pastoral; 12:30 pm: LA Times Book Prize in Poetry Finalists Roundtable with Remica Bingham-Risher, Airea D. Matthews, John Evans, Cindy Juyoung Ok, and Alison C. Rollins; 1:00 pm: Danez Smith, Bluff; 1:20 pm: Kim Dower, What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria; 1:40 pm: Elizabeth Jacobson, There Are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral; 2:00 pm: Mark Irwin, Once When Green; 2:20 pm: Louise Mathias, What if the Invader is Beautiful; 2:40 pm: Gabrielle Civil, In and Out of Place: Mexico/Performance/Writing; 3:20 pm: Callie Siskel, Two Minds; 3:40 pm: Jan Beatty, Dragstripping; 4:00 pm: Blas Falconer, Rara Avis; 4:20 pm: Michelle Bitting, Dummy Ventriloquist; 4:40 pm: Daniel Lawless, I Tell You This Now; 5:00 pm: Jose Hernandez Diaz, Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man; 5:20 pm: Poetry Art Performance, with poet Gail Wronsky and artist Gronk Nicandro; University of Southern California campus, admission is free, photo ID will be required to enter USC, tickets for panels come with a small reservation fee required for panel sessions in classrooms and campus theatres, event parking is $20, parking garages are credit card only, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, eventinfo@latimes.com, or visit: events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/schedule)




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16 NOVEMBER 2025 — sunday

  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Alison Luterman, Hard Listening, and Yiskah Rosenfeld, reading from two recent collections, Tasting Flight and Naked Beside Fish, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PST (poetryflash.org).
  • City Arts and Lectures presents award-winning fiction writer Salman Rushdie, reading from and discussing his forthcoming book The Eleventh Hour, exploring themes of life, death, legacy, and identity through stories set in India, England, and the United States, countries significant to Rushdie's life and work, in conversation with English professor and Co-Director of Critical Theory at UC Berkeley, Poulomi Saha, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $64-$81, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)

17 NOVEMBER 2025 — monday

  • City Arts and Lectures presents New York Times bestselling author Padma Lakshmi, Love, Loss, and What We Ate, Easy Exotic, Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet, in conversation with Peabody Award-winning comedian, director, and producer W. Kamau Bell, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $69-$105, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)

18 NOVEMBER 2025 — tuesday

19 NOVEMBER 2025 — wednesday

20 NOVEMBER 2025 — thursday

  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Rosa Lane, Called Back, 2025 Maine Literary Book Award-winner, and Camille Norton, A Folio for the Dark, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 7:00 pm PST (poetryflash.org).

21 NOVEMBER 2025 — friday

  • City Arts and Lectures presents Nobel Prize-winner Richard H. Thaler and Alex O. Imas discussing their new co-authored book The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies in Economic Life, in conversation with author Michael Lewis, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $49-$54, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)

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