Events

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; Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference; 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, Sacramento, CA; San Francisco State University, CA; Santa Clara University, CA: University of Maine, Fort Kent, ME; UC Riverside Writers Week, CA; 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.

 

 

2026 Spring/Summer Events:

Thursday, March 5, 3:00 to 4:00 p.m., EDT
AWP BOOK SIGNING
Lucille Lang Day, signing The Cosmos and Me: New and Selected Poems
Trio House Press, Bookfair Booth 1248

Thursday, March 5, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., EDT
AWP RECEPTION: Meet the 2026 Trio House Press Authors
Lucille Lang Day, Mai-Linh Hong, Reuben Gelley-Newman, Leila Farjami,
Emily Hyland, Jason Prokowiew, Susan L. Leary, Gauri Awasthi, Dylan Weir
Homeland Room, Fifth Floor, Renaissance Harborplace Hotel
FREE. Food and beverages will be served.

Friday, March 6, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., EDT
AWP BOOKFAIR READING
War and the Living World: The Intersection of History, Biology, and Poetry
Bookfair Stage, Hall A-D, Level 100
Baltimore Convention Center
Moderator: Lucille Lang Day
Poets reading: Sean Mclain Brown,
Ann Fisher-Wirth, Denise Low, and J. C. Todd
Conference registration required for admission.

Saturday, March 7, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., EDT
AWP RECEPTION: Scarlet Tanager Books Celebrates the Living World
Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War
and Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology
Host: Lucille Lang Day
Special guests: Sean Mclain Brown, Denise Low,
J. C. Todd, Anne Fisher-Wirth, Laura-Gray Street
Gibson Room, Sixth Floor, Renaissance Harborplace Hotel
FREE. Food and beverages will be served. Open to the public.

Sunday, May 3, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., PDT
POETRY FLASH SERIES
NorCal Launch for Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War
Lucille Lang Day, Sean Mclain Brown, Susan Kelly-DeWitt,
Claire Ortalda, Andrena Zawinski
Art House Gallery and Cultural Center
2905 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94705
Host: Joyce Jenkins
FREE. Refreshments will be served.
More information: Poetry Flash

Friday, May 22, 7:30 p.m., PDT
BEYOND BAROQUE LITERARY/ARTS CENTER
SoCal Launch for Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War
Coeditor Teresa Mei Chuc with Sean Mclain Brown, Hazel Clayton,
Lisbeth Coiman, Lucille Lang Day, Alicia Viguer-Espert, and Shahé Mankerian.
681 Venice Blvd.
Venice, CA 90291
Host: Teresa Mei Chuc
FREE. Refreshments will be served.
More information: Beyond Baroque

Links:

Video

Reading at the Berkeley Poetry Festival, June 5, 2010

Reading on Poetry TV with John Rhodes and Clara Hsu, June 20, 2010

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

GuerrillaReads, Lucille Lang Day reads her poem “Muir Woods at Night,” March 18, 2019

San Francisco Public Library, reading by contributors to Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California, November 9, 2020

Inlandia Institute, California Burning Reading and Discussion, contributors to Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California and California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology, November 22, 2020

Literary Dialogs with Nina Serrano, Lucille Lang Day reads from and discusses Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place, April 2021

Poetry Flash Reading Series, Lucille Lang Day and Iris Jamahl Dunkle, May 30, 2021

Voices of Indigenous Poets, Truro Historical Society, Lucille Lang Day, Ben Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, Cheryl Savageau, and Ron Welburn, July 14, 2021

Audio

A Novel Idea, KRCB-FM, Suzanne Lang interviews Lucille Lang Day and Jean Wong, February 9, 2014

A Novel Idea, KRCB-FM, Suzanne Lang interviews Richard Michael Levine and Lucille Lang Day,
February 7, 2016

Word Temple, KRCB-FM, tribute to Adelle Foley and interview with Lucille Lang Day, by Katherine Hastings, July 17, 2016

Terra Verde, KPFA-FM, “Speaking to the Heart — Ecopoetry and Environmentalism,” Maureen Nandini Mitra interviews Maya Khosla and Lucille Lang Day, April 19, 2019

Poetry and Planet, “Leveraging Poetry for Environmental Causes,” Ethan Goffman interviews
Lucille Lang Day, October 7, 2019

Cover to Cover, KPFA-FM, Jack Foley reads his introduction to Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, edited by Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan, April 14, 2020

Cover to Cover, KPFA-FM, Lucille Lang Day reads her essay “Rhymes with Reason: Poetry, Science, the Planet and the Mind,” which appears as an appendix in Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, April 21, 2020

Cover to Cover, KPFA-FM, Lucille Lang Day and Jack Foley read poems from Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, April 28, 2020

Environmental Directions Radio, KBPK, Nancy Pearlman interviews Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan about Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, January 8, 2021