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Laurel Benjamin, Caroline Goodwin, Robin Michel, Lisa Rosenberg

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).


Thank you for continuing to support Poetry Flash and our reading series. The featured anthology 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
Laurel Benjamin's new book is Flowers on a Train. Lorette C. Luzajic says, "Laurel Benjamin has an uncanny way of getting inside you even though her words are about someone else. Her exquisite poetry stirs up memories and impressions as if you shared them. These are poems about difficult conversations and loneliness, of beauty and regret. The bridge between reader and writer is made of art and jazz and faded photographs, of beloved poets whose words inspire hers and ours." Her poems have appeared in Lily Poetry Review, Cider Press Review, Taos Journal of Poetry, Mom Egg Review, and elsewhere.
Caroline Goodwin's recent books include Old Snow, White Sun; Madrigals; Trapline; and The Paper Tree. Aileen Cassinetto says, "Exquisite and precise, Caroline Goodwin's newest poetry collection, Old Snow, White Sun…traverses various terrains with grace and a commitment to astonishment. Ferocity and decaying bodies populate these poems but also tenderness and rhythmic hope. Find in these poems a heron, a river, a hurricane, a floodgate, a levee, a story. "The one where the girl is strong enough. The one where she survives." Where she dwells and how she rises. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University, She lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Robin Michel is the author of the award-winning chapbook, Things Will Be Better in Bountiful, and the full-length collection, Beneath a Strawberry Night Sky. She is a professional writer, editor, and creative writing instructor. Her poetry and fiction have been widely published in print and online journals. Her honors include awards from the Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference, and Soul-Making Keats Awards (poetry and fiction); she has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best American Short Stories. She founded Raven & Wren Press in 2019, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Lisa Rosenberg's most recent collection is A Different Physics, winner of the American Legacy Book Award for Poetry. A former space program engineer trained as a physicist, her work has been recognized by a Djerassi Leonardo Residency, Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and MOSAIC America Fellowship. She served as the Poet Laureate of San Mateo County and is a frequent speaker on the confluence of the arts and sciences. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Plume, Poetry, and California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology.




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17 OCTOBER 2025 — friday

18 OCTOBER 2025 — saturday

  • The Women's National Book Association presents "No Poetry, No Peace™," a free virtual National Book Month celebration featuring poets with published books and chapbooks; hosted by series founder Sheryl J. Bize-Boutte, who will also read from her own work, the evening includes Anne Babson, Diane Frank, Sheila Smith McKoy, Arabella Grayson, and Tamara Miles, sharing poems that speak to resilience, history, and lived experience, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm PDT / 7:00 pm EDT (Register: (www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/no-poetry-no-peacetm)
  • City Arts and Lectures presents Andrew Ross Sorkin, journalist for The New York Times and co-anchor of Squawk Box, CNBC's signature morning program, reading from and discussing his new book, 1929: The Inside Story of the Greatest Crash of Wall Street, a spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history, in conversation with CEO of Stripe Patrick Collison, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $64-$69, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)

19 OCTOBER 2025 — sunday

20 OCTOBER 2025 — monday

21 OCTOBER 2025 — tuesday

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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