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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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11 JUNE 2025 — wednesday

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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).
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Poetry reading and book launch celebration with Kit Robinson, Tunes & Tens, Carrie Hunter, The Flow of the Poem's Display of Itself, and James Sherry, Comin' 'Round: Selected Writings, works of poetry and prose 1970-2022, hosted by Steve Orth, at a community-supported art book library + work/performance space, Bathers Library, 2310 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, 7:00 (batherslibrary.cargo.site)
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San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck celebrates San Francisco Bay Area trans poets by inviting poets Natasha Dennerstein, Dena Rod, Lia le-Nguyen, Cadence Mc Cracken, Mercy Gray and special guests to read at SFPL's monthly poetry reading, the Main Library's Poem Jam poetry reading series takes place on the second Thursday of each month. unless otherwise noted, San Francisco Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Room, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 pm PDT (415/557-4400, on.sfpl.org/06-12-25)
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13 JUNE 2025 — friday

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15 JUNE 2025 — sunday

Celebrate Bloomsday with a new ballet by Danse Lumière inspired by James Joyce's Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and The Dead, a short story; the dance is also inspired by the author's relationships with Nora Barnacle and their daughter Lucia, featuring Max Barker, American Ballet Theatre Studio Company; with actors Russell Murphy and Howard Swain; choreography by Kathryn Roszak; St. Patrick's Room, United Irish Cultural Center, 2700 45th Avenue, San Francisco, purchase tickets on Eventbrite, $20, 2:00 pm PDT (For more information: 415/661-2700, irishcentersf.org/event/danse-lumiere-presents-a-james-joyce-ballet-for-bloomsday; Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/danse-lumiere-presents-a-james-joyce-ballet-for-bloomsday-tickets-1334802382859)
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16 JUNE 2025 — monday

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17 JUNE 2025 — tuesday

Oakland Poetry Slam, monthly on the third Tuesday, Tamarack, 1501 Harrison Street, Oakland, 6:30-10:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: tamarackoakland.com)
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18 JUNE 2025 — wednesday

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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).
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23 JUNE 2025 — monday

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28 JUNE 2025 — saturday

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29 JUNE 2025 — sunday

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)
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30 JUNE 2025 — monday

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