Temple Sinai's Fine Arts Committee on Culture and Community is delighted to offer you a free poetry reading by two of the country's most celebrated poets, Marcia Falk and Lucille Lang Day. With Emcee Richard Silberg.

Marcia Falk is the author of The Sky Will Overtake You; Night of Beginnings: A Passover Haggadah; Inner East: Illuminated Poems and Blessings; The Book of Blessings: New Jewish Prayers for Daily Life, the Sabbath, and the New Moon Festival; The Days Between: Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season; The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible; The Spectacular Difference: Selected Poems of Zelda; With Teeth in the Earth: Selected Poems of Malka Heifetz Tussman; and three books of her own poetry.

Writer and poet Lucille Lang Day was born in Oakland, California, and grew up in the Easy Bay.  Her seven poetry collections include Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place and Becoming an Ancestor. Her memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story, received a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. She is also the author of four poetry chapbooks, two childrens books, and three books on science education.  Her work has appeared widely in magazines, newspapers, and anthologies.

Here's what J.K. Fowler, Director of the Bay Area Book Festival, said about Marcia's reading at the Magnes Museum in May.

Marcia Falk’s reading at the inaugural Jewish Arts & Bookfest at the Magnes in Berkeley was a revelation—her poems drifted like clouds, gathering light and shadow, until the whole room felt suspended beneath an ever-widening sky. Her newest book, The Sky Will Overtake You, is a testament to her phenomenal gift: each line a weather pattern, each silence a horizon, leaving us transformed beneath her luminous firmament.