Friday, May 30, 2008 at 7:30 pm, Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, will host an anti-war poetry reading to celebrate the publication of the VOLT War Issue with poets Dennis Philips, Donna de la Perriere, Leslie Scalapino, Maxine Chernoff, Norma Cole, Standard Schaefer, Marjorie Stein, Denise Newman, Rusty Morrison, Robyn Ewing, Kathleen Fraser, Brian Teare, David Koehn, Joseph Lease, Paul Hoover, Paula Koneazny, and Molly Albracht. For more info, visit http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/ 

May 30 and 31^st at CCA’s SF and Oakland campuses. Small Press Traffic’s Aggression conference on contemporary poetics & political antagonism. While a triumphalist rhetoric of community and collectivity has frequently accompanied the narratives of alternative literary scenes and practices, the purpose of this conference is to instead explore the myriad ways in which consensus and community become challenged and/or untenable, and to produce fresh opportunities for rethinking poetic theory and practice. See http://sptaggression.blogspot.com/ for details.  

Friday, June 6:  Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino. The de Young Poetry Series Info: 415-750-7634 or rbaldocchi@famsf.org. Tickets: 866-512-6326 or http://www.museumtix.com