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.

 

 

2024 Summer/Fall Events:

3RD ANNUAL CALAVERAS POETRY FESTIVAL: A CAVALCADE OF LAUREATES
Saturday, June 29, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., PT
Workshops and Readings
Featured Poet: Lucille Lang Day
Keynote Poet: Tama Brisbane, Poet Laureate Emerita of Stockton
Other presenters: Lara Gularte, El Dorado County Poet Laureate Emerita;
Linda Toren, Calaveras Poet Laureate Emerita; Conrad Levasseur,
Calaveras Poet Laureate Emeritus; Monika Rose, current Calaveras
Poet Laureate; Margaret Lewis, Amador Poet Laureate.
Native Sons of the Golden West Hall
389 Main Street
Murphys, CA 95246
Registration $35.00.
More information and registration: Calaveras Poetry Festival

POETRY FLASH READING
Sunday, June 30, 3:00 p.m., PT
Lucille Lang Day, Stephen Meadows, and Kurt Schweigman
Jered’s Pottery
5743A Horton Street
Emeryville, CA
Hosted by Joyce Jenkins and Richard Silberg.
Refreshments. FREE. More information: Poetry Flash

POETRY IN THE VINES
Sunday, September 22, 5:30 p.m., PT
Lucille Lang Day and Carl Landauer
Pondl Winery
655 W. Turner Road
Lodi, CA
Hosted by Nancy Gonzalez St. Clair.
An open mic follows the features. FREE.
More information: Poetry in the Vines

INDIGENOUS THANKSGIVING TRADITIONS
Friday, November 15, 7:00 p.m., PT
Lucille Lang Day and Denise Low
THE 222
222 Healdsburg Ave.
Healdsburg, CA 95448
Hosted by Denise Low.
An open mic follows the features. Audience members
are invited to bring a harvest poem to share.
$20, free for students.
Information and registration: Indigenous Thanksgiving Traditions

POETRY FLASH READING
Sunday, December 1, 3:00 p.m., PT
Lucille Lang Day and Denise Low
Art House Gallery & Cultural Center
2905 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley, CA
Hosted by Joyce Jenkins and Richard Silberg.
Refreshments. FREE. More information: Poetry Flash

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