Mother’s Day di Prima

Happy Mothers Day!               Here’s a wonderful clip of the mother of all poets, and mother of five beautiful children, Diane di Prima…  a reading at The Band’s Last Waltz, Thanksgiving Day, November 1976, Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco.  click here!

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Pugsley Buzzard

Pugsley Buzzard headed this way! catch him at Bird & Beckett on Sunday, May 8th, 4:30 pm…  HAPPY MOTHERS DAY! He boasts an unlikely name and a voice like gravel on a treacherous road, and he’s coming out of Australia for a foray into the Bay Area that’s bound to be talked about for some…

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Jerry Ferraz & Sterling Bunnell

A BARD & A PHILOSOPHER Jerry Ferraz & Sterling Bunnell POETS! featured readers + open mic, twice monthly Jerry Ferraz was born and grew up over in Eureka Valley some years ago, let’s say in the early 1950s, round about this time of year… a San Franciscan to the core… though a much broader expanse…

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ruth weiss

an original beat… ruth weiss w/trio at bird & beckett friday night may 6th at 8:30 pm poetry and jazz… a book release celebration! can’t stop the beat: the life and words of a beat poet ruth weiss was born in germany as the nazis came to power; her family fled to austria in 1933. …

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