Events

Lucy 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:

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

2021 Summer/Fall Events:

HIGHLAND HOUSE MUSEUM – TRURO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Voices of Indigenous Poets
Wednesday, July 14, 2:00-3:00 p.m. PDT, 5:00-6:00 p.m. EDT
Lucille Lang Day, Ben Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, Cheryl Savageau and Ron Welburn
Reading in conjunction with the opening of a new exhibit:
Wampanoag Nation: People of the First Light
More information: Voices of Indigenous Poets
FREE Zoom link: Registration
Host: Lauren Kaufmann

BLUE LIGHT AT THE GALLERY
Friday, September 10, 6:00 p.m. PDT, 9:00 p.m. EDT
Lucille Lang Day, author of Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place
Emily Rolfe Grosholz, author of The Stars of Earth: New and Selected Poems
John Teton, author of The Book of Geezer
RSVP for the FREE Zoom link: Blue Light Press
Host: Diane Frank

LOVE BIRDS COFFEE & TEA CO.
Saturday, October 30, 2:00 p.m. PDT
Lucille Lang Day, author of Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place
4181 Hiway 49, Suite 100
Diamond Springs, CA 95619
FREE. Open mic follows.
Host: Lara Gularte

RIVERTOWN POETS
Monday, Nov. 15, 6:15 p.m. PST, 9:15 p.m. EST
Reading from Fog and Light: San Francisco through the Eyes
of the Poets Who Live Here (Blue Light Press, 2021), edited by Diane Frank.
Lucille Lang Day will read with other contributors.
FREE Zoom link: Rivertown Poets
Sign up for open mic here: Sign up to read
Host: Sande Anfang

WRITING FORWARD READING SERIES
Tuesday, Nov. 16, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. PST, 9:00 to 10:30 p.m. EST
Native American Heritage Month Event:
Reading from Red Indian Road West and Fire and Rain
with Lucille Lang Day, Alison Hart, Dave Holt, Linda Noel
and Stephen Meadows at Santa Clara University.
Live reading limited to SCU students, faculty and staff.
Form to register for FREE YouTube live link: Registration
Host: Kirk Glaser

SEBASTOPOL CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Native Voices: Poetry Reading and Panel in conjunction with Extraction Exhibit
Thursday, November 18, 7:00-8:30 p.m. PDT
282 S. High Street
Sebastopol, CA 95472
Contributors to Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California:
Lucille Lang Day, Dave Holt, Linda Noel, and Kurt Schweigman
Panel on Indigenous Perspectives on the Environment:
Olivia Dancel, Dr. Brenda Flyswithhawks, and Rose Hammock
FREE. More information: Sebastopol Center for the Arts

WOMEN’S NATIONAL BOOK ASSOCIATION—SAN FRANCISCO
Thursday, Nov. 30, 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 PST, 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. EST
Native American Heritage Month Event:
Reading with Red Indian Road West contributors Lucille Lang Day,
Jennifer Elise Foerster, Dave Holt, Linda Noel and Stephen Meadows.
More information and FREE Zoom link: WNBA-SF

MATWAALA
Celebrating Poets of Color Who Make Visible the Rich Diversity of Native American Poetry
POSTPONED
Lucille Lang Day, Lyla June, and Andrina Smith
For the FREE Zoom link, contact: Matwaala
Host: Pramila Venkateswaran