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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 of six books of poetry, most recently The Pattern More Complicated: New and Selected Poems. Gary Snyder says, "Williamson walks with Psyche, if Psyche were the Muse.…He has a sense for landscape, the Midwestern and Western states—foot-loose, car-loose—an underlying taste for large space or even emptiness.…A world we all know, but said better, with more gentle irony." His previous collections include Franciscan Notes, 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 in 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.




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6 JUNE 2025 — friday

7 JUNE 2025 — saturday

  • Fiction author Alka Joshi, known for her trilogy which includes The Henna Artist, will discuss her new book, Six Days in Bombay, The 222, 222 Healdsburg Avenue, Healdsburg, $20, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: the222.org/product/alka-joshi)
  • Berkeley Poetry Festival presents "May We Heal? (A Work in Progress)," dance and spoken word; choreographer Dazaun Soleyn; performers: Jordon Ellis Dabney, Claire Fisher-Mendez and Dazaun Soleyn, with sound, music, spoken word by Jordon Ellis Dabney, Berkeley Ballet Theater, 1370 Tenth Street, Berkeley, free, 7:00-8:00 (www.berkeleypoetryfestival.com)

8 JUNE 2025 — sunday

  • Berkeley Poetry Festival presents their annual Lifetime Achievement Award Celebration, honoring poet Maw Shein Win, with a poetry reading by Tongo Eisen-Martin and Tim Xonnelly, Berkeley Art Center, 1275 Walnut Street, Berkeley, free, 3:00-5:00 (www.berkeleypoetryfestival.com)

9 JUNE 2025 — monday

10 JUNE 2025 — tuesday

11 JUNE 2025 — wednesday

12 JUNE 2025 — thursday

  • Poetry Flash presents a reading by Susan Browne, Monster Mash, and Jeanne Wagner, One Needful Song, the 2024 Catamaran Book 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).
  • 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)
  • 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)

13 JUNE 2025 — friday

14 JUNE 2025 — saturday

15 JUNE 2025 — sunday

16 JUNE 2025 — monday

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)

18 JUNE 2025 — wednesday

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).

20 JUNE 2025 — friday

21 JUNE 2025 — saturday

22 JUNE 2025 — sunday

23 JUNE 2025 — monday

24 JUNE 2025 — tuesday

25 JUNE 2025 — wednesday

26 JUNE 2025 — thursday

27 JUNE 2025 — friday

28 JUNE 2025 — saturday

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)

30 JUNE 2025 — monday


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