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Amy Gerstler

LA Times Festival of Books: Kim Addonizio, Amy Gerstler, Suzanne Lummis, more

27 APRIL 2025 — sunday

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: Holaday Mason, As If Scattered; 10:20 am: Tony Barnstone, Apocryphal Poems; 10:40 am: Amy Gerstler, Is This My Final Form?; 11:00 am: Perry Janes, Find Me When You're Ready; 11:20 am: Mita Mahato, Arctic Play; 11:40 am: Camille T. McDaniel, Blood, Skin, and Water; Noon: Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse, Dream State: A Commonplace Book; 12:30 pm: 30 Years of Los Angeles Poetry: A 30th Anniversary Panel, with Elena Karina Byrne, Amy Gerstler, Suzanne Lummis, Luis J. Rodriguez; 1:00 pm: Kim Addonizio, Exit Opera; 1:20 pm: Avan Jogia, Autopsy (of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob): (poems of rage, love, sex, and sadness);; 1:40 pm: Sarah Maclay, The H.D. Sequence—A Concordance; 2:00 pm: Derrick Austin, Tenderness; 2:20 pm: Donna Sprujit-Metz, To Phrase a Prayer for Peace; 2:40 pm: Nathan Xavier Osorio, Querida; 3:00 pm: Stella Wong, Stem; 3:20 pm: Carol Moldaw, Go Figure; 3:40 pm: Ruben Quesada, Brutal Companion; 4:00 pm: Lory Bedikian, Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body; 4:20 pm: Farid Matuk, Moon Mirrored Indivisible; 4:40 pm: WriteGirl Poets Performance, 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 - 5:00 pm PDT (For more information, eventinfo@latimes.com, or visit: events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/schedule)




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22 OCTOBER 2025 — wednesday

23 OCTOBER 2025 — thursday

  • City Arts and Lectures presents photographer Richard Misrach discusses his new book, Half-Baked Stories about My Dead Mom, photographs of cargo ships to and from the Port of Oakland, in conversation with award-winning author and historian Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $49, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)

24 OCTOBER 2025 — friday

  • Transit Books presents A Very Fine Fête, a fundraiser celebrating Transit's tenth anniversary, eat and drink among friends, enjoy Edward Gorey tarot readings, a book apothecary, special edition merch, a prize for best costume, and more, Edward Gorey-inspired dresswear encouraged: Edwardian costume, fur coats, top hats, fascinators, or something that's been calling in your closet, Cellar Maker Brewing Co., 940 Parker Street, Berkeley, $30-$10,000, 7:00-10:00 (www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/a-very-fine-fete)

25 OCTOBER 2025 — saturday

26 OCTOBER 2025 — sunday

  • Poetry Flash presents Women in a Golden State, California Poets at 60 and Beyond, an anthology celebration and contributor's reading featuring poets Laurel Benjamin, Caroline Goodwin, Robin Michel, and Lisa Rosenberg, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm (poetryflash.org).

27 OCTOBER 2025 — monday

28 OCTOBER 2025 — tuesday

29 OCTOBER 2025 — wednesday

  • Poetry reading by Marcia Falk, The Sky Will Overtake You, and Lucille Lang Day, Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place; she is publisher of Scarlet Tanager Books, reading introduced by Richard Silberg, homemade goodies will be served, sponsored by Temple Sinai's Fine Arts Committee on Culture and Community, Temple Sinai Chapel, 2808 Summit, at 28th Street between Webster and Summit, enter at gate in parking lot, Oakland, free, 7:00 (www.oaklandsinai.org/event/poetry-reading1.html)
  • Sacramento Poetry Center presents "Dangerous Women," a poetry reading by Molly Fisk, Kim Shuck, Moira Magneson, and Tricia Caspers, open mic follows, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, 7:30

30 OCTOBER 2025 — thursday

31 OCTOBER 2025 — friday


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