Posts Tagged ‘readings’
Sunday, Sept. 22nd, 2:00 pm:
Poets Gwynn O’Gara,
QR Hand & Bill Vartnaw
with WordWind Chorus
Sonoma County Poet Laureate Bill Vartnaw and Sonoma County Poet Laureate emeritus Gwynn O’Gara are joined by poet QR Hand and the rest of WordWind Chorus (poet Brian Auerbach & saxophonist Lewis Jordan). QR will read separately as well as performing with WordWind. Of Q. R. Hand, the late, lamented Reginald Lockett (a founding member of…
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Wednesday, September 18th, 7:00 pm:
¡ Viva Lamantia !
Publication Party for the
Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia
OUT-there poetry & OUT-there jazz: Poets Clark Coolidge, Garrett Caples, and Andrew Joron (Caples and Joron are also the editors of the book), with bibliographer Steven Fama, plus music from OUROBOROS (Sheldon Brown & Joseph Noble, reeds; Andrew Joron, theremin; Clark Coolidge, drums) The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia represents the lifework of the most visionary…
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Sunday, November 11th
Two poets read their work
Katherine Hastings and Toni Mirosevich
Sunday, November 11th – 2:00 pm Katherine Hastings grew up in the Cow Hollow neighborhood of San Francisco, a city that has deeply influenced her poems. She is the author of Cloud Fire (Spuyten Duyvil NYC, 2012) and several chapbooks, including Updraft (Finishing Line, 2010). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, anthologies, and other…
Read MoreHouse of the Unexpected — poet Julie Rogers, together with David Meltzer
Sunday, October 14 – 2 p.m. A dual reading to celebrate the release of Rogers’ book, House of the Unexpected: Selected Poems, 1981-2012, from Wild Ocean Press. Julie Rogers began writing at age 12 and began reading her poetry in San Francisco cafes in the late 1970’s. She’s self-published five chapbooks and has read on public…
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Beat icon ruth weiss
with David Brinks & Megan Burns
poets!
Tuesday, October 16th at 7 p.m. A reading by the trailblazing beat icon and a key New Orleans poet/publisher couple. ruth weiss is returning from Europe, where she participated in the prestigious Sprachsalz Festival in Innsbruck, Austria, with three fresh books of her work in hand from German and Swiss publishers. She’ll be joined in…
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Jazz in the Bookshop
Litquake at B&B
and The Music of Kenny Dorham played by the Jay Sanders Quartet
It’s a big weekend all over town, and there’s plenty going on right here at Bird & Beckett. Friday, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m., we offer the ebullient bop of Don Prell’s SeaBop Ensemble, with Jerry Logas on reeds, Michael Parsons on piano and Chris Bjorkbom on drums. San Francisco’s longest running weekly jazz party…
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