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.

 

 

2023 Winter/Spring Events:

PERFORMANCE: ENVIRONMENTAL POETRY
Sunday, February 5, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m., PST
Lucille Lang Day, Avotcja, John Curl,
Dee-Allen, Genny Lim and devorah major
Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room
San Francisco Main Library
100 Larkin St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
FREE. Host Kim McMillon: Kim McMillon
More information: Performance: Environmental Poetry

AWP OFFSITE READING
Thursday, March 9, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., PST
Lucille Lang Day, Lynne Thompson, and others
Ada’s Technical Books and Cafe
425 15th Ave. E
Seattle, WA 98112
FREE. Organizer: Cristina Deptula

SPRING CELEBRATION WITH ECOPOETRY
Sunday, April 2, 6:00 p.m., PST
Contributors to Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California
Lucille Lang Day, Paul Belz, Kirk Lumpkin
Stephen Meadows, and J. C. Olander
The Bookstore
118 Main Street
Chico, CA 95928
FREE. Organizer: Paul Belz

GREEN APPLE BOOKS PRESENTS
Tuesday, April 4, 7:00 p.m., PST
Alix Christie, author of The Shining Mountains,
in Conversation with Lucille Lang Day, co-editor of
Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California
Green Apple Books
1231 9th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122
FREE. More information: Green Apple Books

NATIVE AMERICAN POETRY READING
Thursday, April 27, 7:00 p.m., PST
Contributors to Red Indian Road West:
Native American Poetry from California

Lucille Lang Day, Nanette Deetz, Alison Hart,
Dave Holt and Stephen Meadows
Books Inc.
1344 Park Street
Alameda, CA 94501
FREE. More information: Books Inc.

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