Archive for January 2013
Sunday, January 27th:
Walker Talks!
Walt Whitman & the Civil War
Sunday, Jan. 27 at 2:30 p.m. A talk on the poet in the time of America’s greatest trial, his work amidst the intense misery of the hospital wards bringing him face to face with the suffering wrought by the national suicide then in progress. The experience was inevitably incorporated into his evolving poetic persona, resulting…
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Monday, January 28:
Poets Lee Slonimsky
& Katherine Hastings
Monday, Jan. 28th at 7:00 p.m. Poets from the West Coast and the East Coast converge in Glen Park. Lee Slonimsky has published one book of poems in free verse, Talk Between Leaf and Skin (SRLR Press, Austin TX, 2002), but has been working primarily in traditional forms and meter for the past several years,…
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Thursday, January 17th:
POETS! All open mic
in the memory of Dan Harrington
7:00 p.m.
Poets! is an ongoing Bird & Beckett poetry series, hosted by Jerry Ferraz, which presents featured poets followed by an open mic. We’re moving this series from its twice-a-month Monday schedule to a once-a-month “Third Thursdays” schedule. So mark your calendars! Click here for an overview of the series. 7:00 p.m. Tonight’s reading in our ongoing…
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Sunday, January 20th:
Mike Lipskin & Dinah Lee
stride piano and jazz vocals
which way west? Sunday concert series. All ages welcome! No cover charge, but your generous donations make it possible for us to pay the musicians. Sunday, Jan. 20 – 4:30-6:30 pm: Mike Lipskin & Dinah Lee with Paul Mehling & Jerry Logas. Mike Lipskin is a 50-year veteran Stride Jazz pianist who has an original…
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Sunday, January 20th:
Poets Mary Burger & Denise Newman
2:00 p.m. Mary Burger is a writer and artist living in Oakland. Her book Then Go On was published in 2012 by Litmus Press. Earlier books include Sonny (Leon Works, 2005) and A Partial Handbook for Navigators (Interbirth, 2008.) With Robert Glück, Camille Roy, and Gail Scott she co-edited the anthology Biting the Error (Coach…
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Sunday, January 13th:
Misisipi Mike Wolf & Friends
which way west? Sunday concert series. All ages welcome! No cover charge, but your generous donations make it possible for us to pay the musicians. Sunday, Jan. 13 – 4:30-6:30 pm: Misisipi Mike & Friends. Country picker & singer/songwriter Mike Wolf, aka Misisipi Mike, has more friends than there are double consonants in the English…
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