NAME, M/DD NAME, M/DD NAME, M/DD NAME, M/DD Express %26 Inspire Development %26 Publication
join our mailing list

Get selected timely event updates and news about Poetry Flash in your email inbox.

Richard Tillinghast

Richard Tillinghast, Jeanne Foster, Alan Williamson

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).


Thank you for continuing to support Poetry Flash and our reading series. The featured books will be available for signing at the event and at bookshop.org/shop/poetryflash. This event will be posted on the Poetry Flash YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UClwdR-uPFNz7XxbBbLcnoEA.

MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Richard Tillinghast's new book of poems is Night Train to Memphis. Roger Rosenblatt says, "Characteristic of Richard Tillinghast's genius, Night Train to Memphis gives us comfort with a beautiful strangeness. 'Imagine what you know,' said Shelley. Richard does just that. He welcomes us to a poem, treats us like kin, then quietly changes our lives for the better." He has published fourteen previous collections, the most recent Blue If Only I Could Tell You, and five works of creative nonfiction including literary travel books on Istanbul, Ireland, and a critical biography of the poet Robert Lowell. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. Recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts, he lives in Hawaii and spends his summers in Tennessee.
Jeanne Foster has published four books of poetry, most recently Your Form Became My Own. Rodney Jones says, her "gift is to witness again and again the timeless in a single glimpse." She is a translator from Italian, and co-translated with Alan Williamson, The Living Theatre: Selected Poems of Bianca Tarozzi, Northern California Book Award-winner for Poetry in Translation. Ascoltando una conchiglia, her selected poems translated into Italian, will be published in Venice this fall. Jeanne Foster is the recipient of the QRL Poetry Award and grants from MacDowell, New York State CAPS, Saint Lawrence, and Lannan Foundation. She is Professor Emerita at Saint Mary's College of California, and is a Unitarian Universalist minister who has spoken in pulpits as wide-ranging as London, New Orleans, and San Francisco.
Alan Williamson is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection Franciscan Notes; Kevin McIlvoy says, "It is impossible to leave Franciscan Notes without experiencing the inmost smile that is the response of the body and mind to intimate, authentic truth-telling. Each poem embodies processes of reckoning with the intricacies of mythmaking and unmasking in the 'lifework' of loving. Invoking the Franciscan spiritual practice of discernment through the 'trinity' of memory, intelligence, and love, Williamson unlocks in the reader expectations of sudden joy." Williamson's previous books include The Pattern More Complicated: New and Selected Poems, Love and the Soul, and Res Publica. With Jeanne Foster he co-translated The Living Theatre: Selected Poems of Bianca Tarozzi, Northern California Book Award-winner for Poetry Translation. His most recent book of literary criticism is Dante and the Night Journey. He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, he continues to teach in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.




Daily Listings

< previous month  |  show all MARCH  |  next month >


3 MARCH 2026 — tuesday

4 MARCH 2026 — wednesday

5 MARCH 2026 — thursday

6 MARCH 2026 — friday

  • The Center of Literary Arts of San José presents novelist Lauren Groff, in a reading from her latest novel, The Vaster Wilds, Hammer Theatre, 101 Paseo de San Antionio, San Jose, free, 6:30 pm (www.clasanjose.org)

7 MARCH 2026 — saturday

8 MARCH 2026 — sunday

9 MARCH 2026 — monday

10 MARCH 2026 — tuesday

11 MARCH 2026 — wednesday

12 MARCH 2026 — thursday

13 MARCH 2026 — friday

14 MARCH 2026 — saturday

15 MARCH 2026 — sunday

16 MARCH 2026 — monday

17 MARCH 2026 — tuesday

18 MARCH 2026 — wednesday

19 MARCH 2026 — thursday

20 MARCH 2026 — friday

21 MARCH 2026 — saturday

22 MARCH 2026 — sunday

23 MARCH 2026 — monday

24 MARCH 2026 — tuesday

  • City Lights and Litquake co-present Hannah Lillith Assadi reading from and celebrating the publication of her new book, Paradiso 17: A Novel, in conversation with memoirist and novelist Ingrid Rojas Contreras, in-store, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 pm (citylights.com/events/hannah-lillith-assadi)

25 MARCH 2026 — wednesday

26 MARCH 2026 — thursday

27 MARCH 2026 — friday

28 MARCH 2026 — saturday

29 MARCH 2026 — sunday

  • Poetry Flash presents a Sixteen Rivers Press Book Launch poetry reading by Dane Cervine, Children of Obscura: This Mysterious Human, Carolyn Miller, Random Universe, and Lenore Myers, Afterimages, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).

30 MARCH 2026 — monday

31 MARCH 2026 — tuesday


< previous month  |  show all MARCH  |  next month >

© 1972-2021 Poetry Flash. All rights reserved.  |