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:

Saturday, April 11, 4:00 to 4:45 p.m., PDT
STOCKTON MIRACLE MILE LITERARY CRAWL
Lucille Lang Day, Jasmine Coronel, Carl Landauer and Sam Pauley
House of Shaw
227 Dorris Place
Stockton, CA 95204
FREE. More information: Miracle Mile Lit Crawl

Monday, April 13, 7:00 to 8:00 p.m., PDT
WORDS TO THE WILD: THE POETRY OF CALIFORNIA’S NATIVE PLANTS
Lucille Lang Day, Barret Baumgart and Veronica Kornberg
with environmental leader Amy Greenwood
Sponsored by Salt & Poetry
Host: Veronica Kornberg
FREE. Register for Zoom link: Registration

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

Thursday, May 7, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m., PDT
MARIN POETRY CENTER READING SERIES
Lucille Lang Day, Rebecca Foust and Elizabeth Herron
Mill Valley Public Library
Creekside Room
375 Throckmorton Ave.
Mill Vally, CA 94941
FREE. More information: Marin Poetry Center

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

Saturday, August 15, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m., PDT
MARIN POETRY CENTER’S TRAVELING SHOW
Lucille Lang Day, Judy Bertelsen, Simona Carini,
Gail Entrekin, Carl Landauer, and Robin Michel
Berkeley Public Library — West Branch
1125 University Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94702
FREE. Host: Judy Bertelsen
More information: Marin Poetry Center

Saturday, August 22, 3:00 to 6:00 p.m., PDT
POETRY IN THE GARDEN
Lucille Lang Day, Maxine Chernoff,
Paul Hoover, and Carl Landauer
1431 Spruce St.
Berkeley, CA
FREE. Host: Fred Dodsworth
More information: Fred Dodsworth

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