Note: Due to the National Night Out celebration on Aug. 6, this month we’re meeting on Wednesday. Bring poems of your own to share, or favorite poems by other poets, to this monthly community event with occasional guest features. We’re thrilled to have special guest co-hosts for August: McTate Stroman II and Monica Korde . Co-hosts East Palo Alto Poet Laureate Kalamu Chaché and San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg return in September. Poets of all ages and writing styles are invited to participate. Open mic signup at the door; café evening mini menu; donations encouraged to sustain the series. Families and youth welcome!

Note: Due to holidays, this month we’re meeting on the third Tuesday. Bring poems of your own to share, or favorite poems by other poets, to this monthly community event with occasional guest features. Co-host East Palo Alto Poet Laureate Kalamu Chaché is joined by guest co-host Monica Korde (for co-host San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg). Poets of all ages and writing styles are invited to participate! Open mic signup at the door; café evening mini menu; donations encouraged to sustain the series.

Like the podcast, Super Power U LIVE events are all about strengths, connection, and great questions. They are a cross between a podcast conversation, a woman's gathering, and a potluck with friends! June’s all-woman immersion in collective wisdom challenges the cultural norms for women 50+. Featured speakers Lisa Betts-LaCroix, Francesca Gentille, Christine Marie Mason, Christine Peterson, and Lisa Rosenberg explore topics ranging from birth rates and beauty to difficult conversations and personal narratives. Details, tickets and more at Eventbrite.

What is the work of poetry today? Five poets from around the bay discuss outreach and vision through personal work and public programs. Panel will include Vallejo Poet Laureate D.L. Lang, Poetry Center San José President Robert Pesich, San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg, and San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck; moderated by East Palo Alto Poet Laureate Kalamu Chaché. The Literary Stage is located in Expo Hall adjacent to the extensive art exhibits. Admission included with Fair Tickets.

This month we feature a guest poet followed by an open mic. Caroline Goodwin, San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita, will read from her collection The Paper Tree, and other recent work. For the open mic, bring poems of your own to share, or favorite poems by other poets. Co-hosts East Palo Alto Poet Laureate Kalamu Chaché and San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg invite poets of all ages and writing styles to participate in this monthly community event! Open mic signup at the door; café evening mini menu; donations encouraged to sustain the series.

Barefoot in Black is back! Join us for the latest in this series by There You Go Again Productions. Part dramatic performance, part bohemian lounge, “The Queen’s Mad Room” is woven together with music, movement, and poetry spanning centuries. Choose from two nights and three different ticket prices to best suit your needs (portion of proceeds to local charities). Wear black!

Barefoot in Black is back! Join us for the latest in this series by There You Go Again Productions. Part dramatic performance, part bohemian lounge, “The Queen’s Mad Room” is woven together with music, movement, and poetry spanning centuries. Choose from two nights and three different ticket prices to best suit your needs (portion of proceeds to local charities). Wear black!

Chabot’s Lectures and Lasers series presents diverse speakers, followed by two laser light shows in the Planetarium. Lisa Rosenberg’s “Shakespeare Wrote Source Code” takes an unconventional look at widely different disciplines, to explore, rethink, and strengthen our skills for addressing complex problems and creative challenges in any field. Poetry included! 7PM lecture, 8:15 Hypnotica Laser show, 9:15 LaseRetro. Ticketed adult event with bar and snacks available for purchase.

Flash Fiction Forum presents Bay Area writers of flash narratives in several genres. Lisa Rosenberg will read a short selection of narrative poems in this high energy, multi-author event.

Bring poems of your own to share, or favorite poems by other poets, to this monthly community event with occasional guest features. Co-hosts East Palo Alto Poet Laureate Kalamu Chaché and San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg invite poets of all ages and writing styles to participate! Open mic signup at the door; café evening mini menu; donations encouraged to sustain the series.

The yearly Bay Area Book Festival’s Outdoor Fair features authors, publishers, live performances, activities, and fresh local food. Lisa Rosenberg will be signing copies of her poetry collection, A Different Physics, at Small Press Distribution (SPD), Booth #120, located on Allston Way. All of SPD’s rich array of titles are steeply discounted at the festival. Festival details here.

Join Belmont Mayor Davina Hurt, Councilmembers, and Belmont Poet Laureate Jacki Rigoni for an inspirational Ribbon Cutting and Celebration of Belameda Park's Public Poetry Installation. Poems by Belmont Poet Laureate Emeritus Tanu Wakefield, and San Mateo County Poets Laureate Emeriti Caroline Goodwin and Lisa Rosenberg will be read by the poets as we stroll together through the park to inaugurate the new installations of these poems. Free and open to the public.

Lisa Rosenberg joins East Palo Alto Poet Laureate Kalamu Chaché and other bay area poets in this celebratory reading on KKUP’s Bajaba jazz program, hosted by Afrikahn Jahmal Dayvs. KKUP Cupertino, 91.5FM. 

San Jose Statue University and community poets read on climate change, featuring Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Mighty Mike McGee, San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg, and KKUP Radio Host “Poetita” Rachelle Escamilla. Festival keynote reading by Forrest Gander and Arthur Sze to follow.

Join us for an evening of Leonard Bernstein's works, performed by the Aragon High School chamber orchestra, wind ensemble, and choirs. Interludes will feature poems read by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto, and Poets Laureate Emeriti Caroline Goodwin and Lisa Rosenberg.

Poet, singer, dancer, memoirist, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou was a San Francisco original. In honor of National Poetry Month, San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck will host a program celebrating Maya Angelou's life and poetry. Come hear Kim and local poets Kelechi Ubozoh and Lisa Rosenberg read their own work, writings about Maya Angelou, and Angelou's own poems. Please join us in celebrating one of the unique voices of our literary city!

Join us at Green Apple Book’s 9th Avenue location for a special night of poetry to help raise money for victims of the California Wildfires. Featuring readings by Kim Shuck, Julie Bruck, Rebecca Foust, Lisa Rosenberg, Maw Shein Win, and Barbara Berman. All of the poets, as well as Dean Rader, Eavan Boland and Michael Warr, will be giving away a signed copy of one of their books on a first come basis. We will be collecting contributions for the Wildfire Relief Fund. Additional details here.

Bring poems of your own to share, or favorite poems by other poets, to this monthly community event with occasional guest features. Co-hosts East Palo Alto Poet Laureate Kalamu Chaché and San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg invite poets of all ages and writing styles to participate! Open mic signup at the door; café evening mini menu; donations encouraged to sustain the series.

Lisa Rosenberg will be signing copies of A Different Physics at the Small Press Distribution (SPD) exhibit space (3066, 3068) at the AWP 2019 conference. Please stop by! Add to your AWP schedule.

Lisa Rosenberg joins a diverse group of women from NASA, SETI, and the arts, to talk about the work they do and their career paths. Engage with engineers, biologists, artists, and people in other fields that surprisingly link with space programs. It takes more than just rocket scientists to be part of space missions. Bring your questions and curiosity. The panel, hosted by SETI’s Margaret Race, is part of a day-long offering of hands-on activities and more, all about women doing incredible work in STEAM careers in space. For tickets and further details, please see: Cabot Space & Science Center’s Women’s History Month programs; Facebook Event Listing.

Lisa Rosenberg joins East Palo Alto Poet Laureate Kalamu Chaché and other bay area women poets in this celebratory reading on KKUP’s Bajaba jazz program, hosted by Afrikahn Jahmal Dayvs. KKUP Cupertino, 91.5FM. 

Featured poet Lisa Rosenberg will discuss craft and read from her work at the Poetry Lounge’s new venue, the Willow Glen Library’s Community Room, followed by an open mic. Hosted by Lesa Medley. For more information see Poetry Lounge.

East Bay Booksellers welcomes a reading by Poetry Flash poets Keith Emmons, author of Moondrifter Reverie, and Lisa Rosenberg, author of A Different Physics; both titles from Red Mountain Press.

Lisa Rosenberg discusses connections between these often-divided disciplines in a reading and fireside conversation at 8PM as part of First Friday: Women in STEAM. The full evening offers hands-on activities, demonstrations, lectures, and more, for all ages; running 6-10PM. $5 admission.

Poets Lisa Rosenberg and Sharon Coleman read from their work and discuss craft at CCA with undergraduates in the Humble Pie literary magazine publishing course. Pie will be served! Open to the public.

Lamorinda Arts Council presents guest readers Dani Gabriel, Jeremy Bensen, and Lisa Rosenberg in this monthly series, hosted by Lafayette-Orinda Poet Laureate Amy Glynn.

Poets Sharon Coleman and Lisa Rosenberg read from their work, followed by an open mic. Hosted by Poetry Express’s Bruce Bagnell.

Acclaimed San Francisco drummer/producer PC Muñoz leads an all-star trio and guest soloists through a lovingly crafted reweaving of Carole King’s blockbuster 1971 album "Tapestry." The album will be performed in sequence and rendered in unique new musical contexts — from funk to jazz, hip-hop, poetics, and beyond. Featuring Bang Data guitarist Michael Cavaseno, bassist Aaron Germain, San Mateo County Poet Laureate Lisa Rosenberg, percussionist Amelie Hinman, clarinetist Ben Goldberg, San Jose rapper DEM ONE, and vocalists Zoe Ellis and Francesca Lee. FREE with gallery admission or same-day film ticket. Co-presented by the JCC East Bay.

A retrospective event featuring selected poems from the last Spoken Art submission period, display of all artwork featured over the entire span of this community project, and an open mic for poets to share poems previously entered in any Spoken Art submission call. San Mateo County Poet Laureate Lisa Rosenberg will offer reflections on her term, and welcome the 2019-2020 Laureate, Aileen Cassinetto. Refreshments will be served and all are welcome.

A reading by Lisa Rosenberg, followed by open mic. Hosted by Belmont Poet Laureate Jacki Rigoni.