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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Ruchika Tomar
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, March 23\, 2022 – 2:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\nRuchika Tomar is the author of A Prayer for Travelers\, which won the 2020 PEN/Hemingway award for debut novel. She is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-ruchika-tomar/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Brian Broome
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, May 4\, 2022 – 2:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\nBrian Broome\, a poet and screenwriter\, won the grand prize in Carnegie Mellon University’s Martin Luther King Writing Awards. His debut memoir\, Punch Me Up to the Gods is available through Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.  \n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-brian-broome/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dump GEO\, Melt ICE: Poetry Reading in Support of Compton's Coalition
DESCRIPTION:Featuring readings by Anna Avery\, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta & Trinh Lê. \nMasks required \n6pm doors. 6:30 reading. \nMore event info \nCompton’s Coalition
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dump-geo-melt-ice-poetry-reading-in-support-of-comptons-coalition/
LOCATION:Oakland Tamarack\, 1501 Harrison St.\, Oakland\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Poetry Festival 2026
DESCRIPTION:We are so honored to offer the community a week of FREE poetry events. \n  \n16 March—7pm—Monday: Poems as Portals Virtual Workshop—Zoom—FULL \n17 March—7PM—Tuesday: Rooted & Written—Zoom— \nCome gather with us for an evening of poems that honor where we come from\, question where we’re headed\, and remind us that writing—like root\, hosted by Rowena Leong Singer\, Readers: Angel Bista\, Ashia S. Ajani\, Kevin Madrigal Galindo\, Sabina Khan-Ibarra & Zara Jamshed.  \nMore info & RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1980166922570?aff=oddtdtcreator  \n18 March—6:30-8pm—Wednesday: Open Mic with Nazelah Jamison with readings by darius simpson and Wendy M. Thompson—Pegasus Books\, Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Avenue\, Berkeley. \nSign up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4lAJUOG2P_YqGAAdvgVj9tzg37GsG-nlAhjJhPqKT77ZY4Q/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=100129209506081294655  \n19 March—7PM—Thursday: A Celebration of Queer Poetics—La Peña Cultural Center\, 3105 Shattuck Avenue\, Berkeley. \nCQP is migrating space embracing radical tenderness to celebrate a queer poetics with poets Juju Martinez\, Maria Esquinca\, Maribel Martínez\, Melí Gómez\, Michelle Ngô\, Zander Moreno Lozano & performance by Corazón de Cedro Duet Evelyn Donají & Camellia Boutros\, emceed by Lourdes Figueroa. \nMore info & RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1981274259645?aff=oddtdtcreator  \n20 March—6:30PM—Friday: SF Write Now: Life into Action/Action into Words—2727 California Street\, Berkeley— \nSF Write Now is a community reading series\, created to hold space for poets across generations and styles—poetry that listens as much as it speaks. Readings by Shizue Seigel\, Christl Rikka Perkins\, and Andre Le Mont Wilson\, hosted by Esperanza Cabrales. \nMore info & RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1981806247836?aff=oddtdtcreator  \n21 March—Saturday: Whispers from the Body: In person Workshop—1:30-2:30pm—Berkeley Public Library West Branch\, 1125 University Avenue—A somatic writing and movement workshop: we will begin to access sudden pleasures\, unexpected strength\, hidden stresses and enduring scars that inhabit the body and our memories. Come wearing comfortable clothes and bring a pen and notebook. Led by Sharon Coleman. \nSign up: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1982242691250?aff=oddtdtcreator  \n21 March—Saturday: Creative PLAYshop Dance & Poetry—6pm—Berkeley Ballet Theater\, 1370 Tenth Street\, Berkeley. \nWeaving sound and poetry that explores themes of healing\, Jordon Ellis Dabney and Dazaun Soleyn create an immersive experience that begins with dance\, music\, words\, followed by a dynamic workshop weaving sound and poetry that explores themes of healing. Open to all experience levels. \nMore info & RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1982741579438?aff=oddtdtcreator   \n22 March—3pm—Sunday: Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony: Honoring devorah major and with readers Joyce E. Young and Leticia Hernández Linares—First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley. \nThe Berkeley Poetry Festival is honored to celebrate devorah major recipient of the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award—a poet whose work has shaped revolutionary poetics\, feminist thought\, and cultural memory for decades. \ndevorah major’s writing insists on presence. It refuses erasure. Across poetry\, essays\, performance\, and community work\, she has traced the living intersections of race\, gender\, history\, and imagination. Her voice has long been a compass for writers committed not just to craft\, but to truth-telling\, survival\, and collective futures. \nMore info & RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/1982324268249?aff=oddtdtcreator
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LOCATION:various venues\, CA\, United States
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