Hosted by the editors of Salt & Poetry, this reading features fifteen writers from Gunpowder Press’s newly-released anthology of California women poets, Women in a Golden State. Poets will read their contribution, followed by questions and discussion. Free registration required at Eventbrite.

The Live Poetry Program hosted by poet and Arts Commissioner Lois Fried features youth poets, city poets laureate, local authors, musicians, and San Mateo County’s current poet laureate, Antonio Lopez, plus emeriti laureates Caroline Goodwin, Lisa Rosenberg, Aileen Cassinetto, and Jorge Argueta.

Please join us for Menlo Park’s 7th Annual Mental Health Open Mic Night. Musician and mental health advocate Frances Ancheta Becker will be our emcee for a special event celebrating Mental Health Month. The evening includes professional musicians, San Mateo County Poets Laureate Emerita Aileen Cassinetto and Lisa Rosenberg, and mental health advocates and supportive members of the community.

The 2025 theme for Mental Health month is "Mental Health as a Continuum." This theme challenges the binary idea of “healthy” versus “unhealthy” mental health, normalizing the wide range of mental health experiences and encouraging individuals to embrace and accept the full spectrum of their well-being.

Whether in sharing experience, music, storytelling, readings, or poetry, join us in a safe space where you can share your own words, or listen to those of others.

A live reading by recent contributors to The Inflectionist Review, hosted by the Editors. April’s readers are Brian Evans-Jones, Lisa Rosenberg, and Helena Mesa. Please register (free) for Zoom link.

Experience the unifying power of poetry in many languages. Cupertino Poet Laureate Keiko O’Leary hosts several local poets reading in a variety of languages, followed by an open mic. Free and open to the public.

San Francisco Poet Laureate Emerita Kim Shuck hosts a reading by Bay Area poets Caroline Goodwin, E.K. Keith, and Lisa Rosenberg, in celebration of National Poetry Month. Fere and open to the public. Additional details here.

Poets Fight Back, especially as books and authors are being banned. This National Poetry Month reading features Kimi Sugioka, KR Morrison, Paul Corman Roberts, Jan Steckel, Lisa Rosenberg, Richard Loranger, Lucille Lang Day, Jennifer Blowdryer, Ayodele Nzinga, & Garrett Murphy. OPEN MIC follows the features. More details here.

Running April 6-May 11, Omnidawn’s highly esteemed yearly prosody course/workshop led by David Koehn draws on Donald Justice’s Compendium to help poets expand their skills and creative directions through deeper understanding of prosody. Each meeting includes discussion, exploration, and weekly guest poets: Lisa Rosenberg, Rebecca Foust, Kim Addonizio, Maw Shein Win, Arisa White, and Forrest Gander.

Details and Enrollment (deadline: Sat. April 5). Sliding scale tuition, limited number of scholarships available. All proceeds support Omnidawn, a non-profit, independent press.

Books, Inc. presents a poetry reading and informal discussion by local authors Cintia Santana and Lisa Rosenberg. A multidisciplinary author and artist, Santana teaches poetry and translation at Stanford University. Her debut collection, The Disordered Alphabet, received the 2024 Northern California Book Award for Poetry. A former Stegner Fellow, Djerassi Resident, and engineer, Rosenberg served as the second Poet Laureate of San Mateo County. Her debut collection, A Different Physics, received the 2024 American Legacy Book Award for Poetry.

Celebrate California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick and California Youth Poet Laureate Chloe Chou in the City Council Chambers during this special event. The evening will feature poetry readings, a solo jazz performance by renowned saxophonist Francis Wong, and a Q&A session. Hear readings by Lee Herrick, Chloe Chou, current South San Francisco Youth Poet-in-Residence Andrada Tomisinet, and former SSF Youth Poet-in-Residence Elizabeth Wong. Introductions will be provided by San Mateo County Poets Laureate Emeriti Caroline Goodwin, Lisa Rosenberg, and Aileen Cassinetto.

Free and open to the public, refreshments will be provided.