See & Hear


photo-seeandhearLucy has read her work at many colleges, cafés, galleries, bookstores, conferences, and other venues and events in the U.S. and Canada, such as Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Biennial Conference, University of Victoria, British Columbia; Cody’s Books, Berkeley, CA; California State University East Bay, Hayward, CA; Cornelia Street Café, New York, NY; Diesel: A Bookstore, Oakland, CA: Food for Thought Books, Amherst, MA; Kensington Row Bookshop, Kensington, MD; Mechanics’ Institute Library, San Francisco, CA; Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, CA; Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA; Sacramento Poetry Center, California, CA; San Francisco State University, CA; the University of Maine, Fort Kent, ME; Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, Berkeley, CA; and Wine & Words, Livermore, CA.  In 2004 and 2010 she read in the Poetry at Noon Series at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Links:


Peter Crooks of Diablo magazine interviews Lucille Lang Day for GET LIT, Walnut Creek TV, March 2013

Reading on Mystic Babylon: San Francisco Poetry Podcast/TV,
Hosted by John Rhodes, June 20, 2010

Reading at the Berkeley Poetry Festival, June 5, 2010

Reading at Diesel: A Bookstore, Oakland, California, August 2, 2009

Poetry Video by Richard Schiff, Lucille Lang Day reads her poem “When Palm Shadows Dance on the Pavement, Which One Keeps the Beat?”

“The Change,” Berkeley Poets Workshop and Press

Reading of “Reject Jell-O” by Garrison Keillor, The Writer’s Almanac, July 25, 2005

2013 Winter/Spring Events:


Lucille Lang Day, Andrena Zawinski,
Judy Juanita, and Patti Trimble
TURNING A TRAIN OF THOUGHT UPSIDE DOWN:
AN ANTHOLOGY OF WOMEN’S POETRY
Hosted by Kit Kennedy
Saturday, Jan. 19, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
AWE Gallery
678 Portola Dr.
San Francisco, CA 94127
Coordinator: Kit Kennedy, kit.kennedy@yahoo.com

Lucille Lang Day, author of MARRIED AT FOURTEEN
Herbert Gold, author of NOT DEAD YET
Saturday, Jan. 26, 7:00 p.m.
Bird & Beckett Books and Records
653 Chenery St.
San Francisco, CA 94131
For more information, visit www.birdbeckett.com

Lucille Lang Day
Author of MARRIED AT FOURTEEN: A TRUE STORY
California State University East Bay
Department of English
DISTINGUISHED WRITERS SERIES
Wednesday, Feb. 6, 7:00 p.m.
University Library, Biella Room
25800 Carlos Bee Boulevard
Hayward, CA
Coordinator: Susan Gubernat, susan.gubernat@csueastbay.edu

Lucille Lang Day, author of MARRIED AT FOURTEEN
with Michael Monson, Tom Pitts, Jason Ridler, and Dan Sanders
LIP SERVICE WEST: TRUE STORIES
Friday, Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m.
Pegasus Books
2349 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley, CA
Coordinator: Joe Clifford, joeyclifford@hotmail.com

Lucille Lang Day, author of MARRIED AT FOURTEEN
Adam David Miller, author of TICKET TO EXILE
LOVE LOST AND FOUND
Thursday, Feb. 14, 7:00 p.m.
Books, Inc.
601 Van Ness
San Francisco, CA
For more information, visit www.booksinc.net/SFOpera

Lucille Lang Day, Lindsey Crittenden, Daniel Langton,
Michael Larkin, and Ethel Rohan
RELEASE PARTY FOR ARROYO LITERARY REVIEW
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 6:00 p.m.
The Bistro
1001 B Street
Hayward, CA 94541
Coordinator: Arroyo Literary Review, arroyoliteraryreview@gmail.com

Lucille Lang Day, Natalie Diaz, and Luke Warm Water
NATIVE AMERICAN POETRY READING
Thursday, Feb. 21, 7:30 p.m.
Marin Poetry Center
Falkirk Cultural Center
1408 Mission St.
San Rafael, CA
For more information, visit www.marinpoetrycenter.org

Lucille Lang Day and Andrena Zawinski
WRITING TEACHERS WRITE, A Reading Series
Wednesday, Mar. 27, 5:30 p.m.
Expressions Gallery
2035 Ashby Ave.
Berkeley, CA
Coordinator: Judy Bebelaar, judy@judybebelaar.com

Lucille Lang Day
Author of MARRIED AT FOURTEEN: A TRUE STORY
and The Curvature of Blue: Poems
ALAMEDA ISLAND POETS Series
Wednesday, April 3, 7:00 p.m.
Books, Inc.
1344 Park Street
Alameda, CA
Coordinator: Ken Peterson, kpet@pacbell.net

Lucille Lang Day
Author of MARRIED AT FOURTEEN: A TRUE STORY
Friday, April 12, 6:30 p.m.
Gallery Bookshop
Corner of Main and Kasten
Mendocino, CA
For more information, visit www.gallerybookshop.com

Lucille Lang Day
Author of MARRIED AT FOURTEEN: A TRUE STORY
Saturday, April 13, 4:00 p.m.
Four-Eyed Frog
Cypress Village
Gualala, CA
For more information, visit www.foureyedfrog.com

Lucille Lang Day
Author of MARRIED AT FOURTEEN: A TRUE STORY
Thursday, April 18, 7:30 p.m.
SWEET THURSDAYS
Lafayette Library
3491 Mt. Diablo Blvd.
Lafayette, CA
For more information, visit www.lafayettelib.org/calendar/sweetThursdays.html

Lucille Lang Day, author of MARRIED AT FOURTEEN
Lenore Weiss, author of CUTTING DOWN THE LAST TREE
ON EASTER ISLAND
Thursday, May 9, 7:00 p.m.
Kehilla Community Synagogue
1300 Grand Ave.
Piedmont, CA
Coordinator: Lenore Weiss, lenoreweiss@sbcglobal.net

Color of the Universe

The universe is really beige. Get used to it.

John Noble Wilford
The New York Times

For Richard

I can’t believe the universe is tan,
Not red or green or lavender or blue.
I feel carnelian when you take my hand—

Not beige like lima beans from a can,
But a splendid, electrifying hue.
I can’t believe the universe is tan.

Rose and gold are what I understand
When I think of waking up each day with you.
I feel carnelian when I take your hand,

And like the universe my love expands,
Surrounding us with turquoise and chartreuse.
Can you believe the universe is tan,

A color desolate as lunar sand
And homely as a peanut or cashew?
I feel carnelian when we’re hand in hand,

Listening to Perahia play Chopin.
The stars all turn cerulean on cue.
I don’t care if the universe is tan:
I feel carnelian as you take my hand.

— Lucille Lang Day



From The Curvature of Blue,
first published in Blue Unicorn