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Susan Browne

Susan Browne and Jeanne Wagner

12 JUNE 2025 — thursday

Poetry Flash presents a reading by Susan Browne, Monster Mash, and Jeanne Wagner, One Needful Song, the 2024 Catamaran Poetry Prize-winner, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 7:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).

Featured books for this reading will be available for signing at the event, and Susan Browne's will also be available at bookshop.org/shop/poetryflash. This event will be posted on the Poetry Flash YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UClwdR-uPFNz7XxbBbLcnoEA. Thank you for continuing to support Poetry Flash and our reading series.

MORE ABOUT THE READERS

Susan Browne's new poetry book is Monster Mash. Diane Seuss says, "There it is—the timing of a great comedian, and the devastation at the center of every magnificent joke. The result is a book of poems that captures, for me, what it feels like to exist in a culture and a world falling apart at the seams….It tracks the span of a life, the early loss of a mother, and exposes the wisdom that comes to those who endure long enough to earn it, that 'the intelligent thing is to offer everything / to infinite love.'" Her previous poetry collections include Buddha's Dogs, winner of the Four Way Books Intro Prize; Zephyr, winner of the Steel Toe Books Editor's Choice award; and Just Living, winner of the Catamaran Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, The Sun, The Southern Review, Rattle, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the James Dickey Poetry Prize, Los Angeles Poetry Festival Prize, River Styx International Poetry Contest, Fischer Poetry Prize, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center fellowship. She lives in Northern California.
Jeanne Wagner's new poetry book is One Needful Song, winner of the 2024 Catamaran Poetry Prize. John Sibley Williams says, "This is a rare creation of song and scar, of vulnerability and both emotional and structural complexity. In One Needful Song, the outer and inner, conceptual and human worlds mingle in accessible yet complex ways. Brimming with meditations on history and myth, family and nostalgia, landscape and personal identity, these vibrant poems remain grounded in a universal familiarity that opens us up to something greater. If one of the aims of poetry is to condense our vast, contradictory, and beautifully human world into the briefest of songs, One Needful Song, being both intellectually stimulating and emotionally engaging, stands as a testament to its possibility." Her previous poetry collections include four chapbooks and four previous full-length collections: Everything Turns Into Something Else, runner-up for the Grayson Book Prize; In the Body of Our Lives, Sixteen Rivers Press; and , NFSPS Poetry Prize-winner. Her work has appeared in North American Review, Cincinnati Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Her honors include the Joy Harjo Award, Naugatuck Prize, and the Cloudbank Prize. She lives in Kensington, California.

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Womb House Books welcomes Grace Byron to discuss her new novel Herculine; this horror debut follows a woman who seeks refuge at an all-trans girl commune only to discover that demons haunt her comrades, in conversation with author Hannah Zeavin, Womb House Books, 470 49th Street, Oakland, free, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm (www.eventbrite.com/o/womb-house-books-79447203573)
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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)
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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)
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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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22 NOVEMBER 2025 — saturday

Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library presents the Poets About Time Open Mic, 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)
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