Calendar Northern California

Updated August 27, 2010

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1 AUGUST 2010---sunday:
CENTRAL:
• Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Diane Kirsten Martin, Conjugated Visits, and Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, Tulips, Water, Ash, Diesel, A Bookstore, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, 3:00 (510/653-9965, dieselbookstore.com)
NORTH:
• Golden Road Art & Music Fair, a benefit for Ink People, features North Coast storytellers including Uriel Crum, poetry reading by Nicholas Karavatos and Jeff Kelley, spoken word performers, exhibitors, Old Creamery Building, 9th and L Street, Arcata, noon-8:00 (inkpeople.org)

2 AUGUST 2010---monday:
CENTRAL:
• Featured poetry reading by Rose Mark and Larry Beresford, open mic follows, hosted by Kit Kennedy, Gallery Café, 1200 Mason, at Washington, SF, sign up for open 6:30, reading 7:00 sharp (415/296-9932, www.authorsden.com/kitkennedy)
• Poetry Express presents a Leo celebration, featuring poet/musician Avotcja plus open reading, mention the event for ten-percent meal discount, Priya Indian Cuisine, 2072 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00 (510/644-3977, poetryexpress @ gmail.com, www.avotcja.com)
NORTH:
• UUCSR Writers meeting with work-in-progress presentations and feedback, open to all levels and genres of writing, membership at UUCSR not required, Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 547 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa, 4:00-6:00 (707/568-5381, uucsrwriters.blogspot.com)

4 AUGUST 2010---wednesday:
EAST:
• Bistro 33 Poetry Night presents featured readers, open mic follows, hosted by Andy Jones and produced by Brad Henderson, Bistro 33, 226 F Street, at Third, Davis, free, 8:00 (530/756-4556, aojones @ ucdavis.edu)

5 AUGUST 2010---thursday:
CENTRAL:
• Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading for the new anthology of women’s poems, Love Over 60, featuring contributors Ellery Akers, Ellen Bass, Gail Entrekin, Kathie Isaac-Luke, Ellaraine Lockie, Carol Wade Lundberg, Rosalie Nelson, Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)

8 AUGUST 2010---sunday:
CENTRAL:
• Seventh annual San Francisco Theatre Festival presents Rocket Poetry, a performance of poetry by Detroit poet Tony Seymour to the music of Jeff Beck, Spur Urban Center, 654 Mission, Fourth Floor, SF, free, 3:40 sharp-4:05 (Spur: 415/291-8655, www.sftheatrefestival.org)
• CANCELED: The Music of the Word/La Palabra Musical series has been canceled, Rebecca’s Books, 3268 Adeline Street, Berkeley, 3:30-5:30 (510/852-4768, www.avotcja.com)
• Valona Deli presents “second Sunday” poetry reading by Dane Cervine and Erica Goss, open mic follows with host Connie Post, Terry Henry Trio plays jazz after the poetry, Valona Deli, 1323 Pomona, Crockett, 4:00-6:00 (510/787-2022)

9 AUGUST 2010---monday:
CENTRAL:
• Featured poetry reading by Stephanie Manning, Gregory Pond, James Tracy, open mic for up to twenty readers follows, hosted by Giancarlo, My Corner Café, 1500 South Van Ness, at 26th Street, SF, 5:00-8:00, open mic begins 5:30
• Poetry Express presents a featured reading by Judy Wells, I Dream of Circus Characters: A Berkeley Chronicle, plus open reading, mention the event for ten-percent meal discount, Priya Indian Cuisine, 2072 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00 (510/644-3977, poetryexpress @ gmail.com, www.avotcja.com)
SOUTH:
• Second Monday of the Month poetry reading presents featured poetry reading, open mic follows, Willow Glen Library, 1157 Minnesota Avenue, San Jose, 7:00 (408/808-3045, or 408/266-1361)

10 AUGUST 2010--tuesday:
CENTRAL:
• Save the Gulf, a Benefit for the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, with readers Micah Ballard, Terri Carrion, Lyn Hejinian, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)

11 AUGUST 2010--wednesday:
CENTRAL:
• Featured poetry reading by Camincha and Don Brennan, open mic, hosted by Jehannah, Sacred Grounds Café, corner of Hayes and Cole Streets, SF, 7:30
• Poetry & Music Benefit for Poetry Flash presents Michael McClure, Country Joe McDonald, Risa Kaparo with bassist Sascha Jacobsen performing from her new poetry and music CD Awaken, Detroit poet M.L. Liebler with Moby Grape's Peter Lewis, plus James Preston, drummer, of the Sons of Champlin, fun and refreshments to keep Poetry Flash magazine in print and online, Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center, 1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, $10-$20 sliding scale, 8:00 (Poetry Flash: 510/525-5476, Ashkenaz: 510/525-5054, www.ashkenaz.com)

12 AUGUST 2010---thursday:
CENTRAL:
• Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Julie Sheehan, Bar Book: Poems and Otherwise, and Robert Thomas, Dragging the Lake, Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
NORTH:
• Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series, curated by Peg Alford Pursell, Studio 333, 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito, $5, 7:00 (Studio 333 415/331-8272, whytherearewords @ gmail.com, whytherearewords.wordpress.com)

13 AUGUST 2010---friday:
CENTRAL:
• Last Word presents a featured poetry reading by Kirk Lumpkin and Marc Kokinos, plus open mic, co-hosted by Dale Jensen, Diana Q., good food, Nefeli Caffe, 1854 Euclid Avenue, near Hearst, Berkeley, free, 7:00 (510/841-6374)

14 AUGUST 2010---saturday:
CENTRAL:
• Writers with Drinks features comedian Janine Brito; science fiction writer Alice Sola Kim; Justine Sharrock, Tortured: When Good Soldiers Do Bad Things; writer and filmmaker Monica Nolan, World of Women and Lesbians Who Date Men; and poet Oscar Bermeo, hostess Charlie Jane Anders, The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, between Mission and Valencia, SF, $5-$10 sliding scale, proceeds benefit Center for Sex and Culture, 7:30-9:30 (www.writerswithdrinks.com)   
• Live Poets’ Gathering, drop-in workshop to nurture your own poetry, children ten and older welcome with an adult, with published poet Sally Love Saunders, refreshments, Cultural Integration Fellowship, 2650 Fulton Avenue, at 3rd, SF, free, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 (www.snowcrest.net/spindler/sallylovesaunders)
• Poetry& Prose reading by Malcolm Grissom and to be announced, open mic follows with host Jeanne Lupton, Frank Bette Center for the Arts, 7:00 (510/523-6957, www.frankbettecenter.org)

15 AUGUST 2010---sunday:
CENTRAL:
• Summer of Psychedelic Love, the Leo Show! a poetry reading with Clive Matson, Jeanne Lupton, Harold Adler, Jamie Erfurdt, readers from Regent Press, Leslene Della-Madre, Victor Owens, VJ Clover, LSD Visuals, Suzanne Cimone, Buddhi, Spanda, and others, with host Ava Bird, Art House Gallery and Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, at Ashby, Berkeley, $10, 5:00-10:00 (Ava Bird, ompoem @ hotmail.com)
NORTH:
• Healdsburg Literary Guild’s Third Sunday Salon presents featured writer, open mic for short works of literary intent follows, Affronti’s, 235 Healdsburg Avenue, Healdsburg, open mic sign up 2:00, reading 2:30-4:30 (healdsburgliteraryguild @ gmail.com)

17 AUGUST 2010--tuesday:
CENTRAL:
• The A Tonalist (s) Reading features writers Yedda Morrison, Sara Larsen, Scott Inguito, Standard Schaefer, Laura Moriarty, Alli Warren, Andrew Joron, and Brent Cunningham, Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)

18 AUGUST 2010---wednesday:
CENTRAL:
• g.e. chapbook collective launches four new chapbooks, this reading features Owen Hill, Genine Lentine, James Maughn, and Dunstan Christopher, Books & Bookshelves, 99 Sanchez, at 14th Street, SF, bring your own beverage, 7:30 (415/621-3761, www.booksandbookshelves.com)  
NORTH:
• Sunset Poetry by the Bay at Studio 333 presents a poetry reading by Joan Baranow, Nicholas Karavatos, and David Watts, Studio 333 Art Gallery, 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito, 7:00-9:00 (415/331-8272, poetnews @ sonic.net, www.studio333.info)

19 AUGUST 2010---thursday:
CENTRAL:
• Poetry reading by Laura Glen Louis, Some, like elephants, Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary & Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
NORTH:
• Third Thursday Poetry Reading presents North Beach poet Rosemary Manno, Fire Angel, open mic precedes the reading, CityART Gallery, 284 Main Street, Point Arena, Mendocino County, free, 7:30 (707/882-3616)
EAST:
• Poetry Night Reading Series presents featured readers, open mic follows, John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street, Davis, 8:00 (530/756-3938, poetryindavis.blogspot.com)

20 AUGUST 2010--friday:
CENTRAL:
• Poetry reading by New York poet Jane Ormerod, Recreational Vehicles on Fire, and sci-fi “phantasmagoric” poet Daniel Yaryan, plus open mic, hosted by Steve Arntson, appetizers and wine, Expressions Gallery, 2035 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, 7:00 (510/644-4930, expressionsgallery @ msn.com)
• Neal Pollack reads from his hilarious memoir, Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude, Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)

21 AUGUST 2010--saturday:
CENTRAL:
• Round VIII on Haight: Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts presents poet David Meltzer, reading with featured performers Trance rock sitar player/piano composer Alan Sitar Brown, poets Julia Vinograd, Debra Grace Khattab, Diamond Dave, Bob Booker, Marc Wilson, and J. Brandon Loberg, with special guest New York poet Jane Ormerod, hosted by Gail Mitchell, produced by Daniel Yaryan, co-sponsored by Booksmith, The Red Victorian Peace Center, 1665 Haight Street, SF, $6-$10 donation, 6:00 (831/713-0437, www.sparringwithbeatnikghosts.com)

22 AUGUST 2010---sunday:
CENTRAL:
• The Music of the Word/La Palabra Musical series presents storyteller Tureeda Mikell and Sevé Torres, open mic, hosted by Avotcja, The Other Change of Hobbit, 3264 Adeline Street, Berkeley, 3:30-5:30 (510/848-0413, www.avotcja.com)

23 AUGUST 2010---monday:
CENTRAL:
• Poetry Express presents a featured reading by Nicholas Karavatos, plus open reading, mention the event for ten-percent meal discount, Priya Indian Cuisine, 2072 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00 (510/644-3977, poetryexpress @ gmail.com, www.avotcja.com)
EAST:
• Sacramento Poetry Center presents The Londonberry Salon reading, with poets Shawn Pittard, Christina Hutchins, Gregory Randall, Toni Wilkes, Roy Mash, and Mary Petrosky, Crossroads for the Arts, 1719 25th Street, at R Street, Sacramento, 7:30 (sacramentopoetrycenter.blogspot.com)

25 AUGUST 2010---wednesday:
CENTRAL:
• Bay Area Writing Project presents Writing Teachers Write, “Collections & Recollections,” a reading for participants in last spring’s BAWP Writing Retreat at Asilomar, featuring retreat participants Marty Williams and Judy Bebelaar reading from their work, open reading for any participants in that writing retreat, followed by the regular open reading, one drink minimum, Nomad Café, 6500 Shattuck, at 65th Street, Oakland, 5:00-6:30 (Judy Bebelaar, 510/845-5430, judy@judybebelaar.com)

26 AUGUST 2010---thursday:
NORTH:
• Writers Read presents fiction writer, storyteller, sometime cowboy poet Richard Schmidt, open mic follows, refreshments, Art Center Ukiah, Corner Gallery, 201 S. State Street, at Church, Ukiah, donation, 7:00 (707/463-6989, www.coloredhorse.com, www.artcenterukiah.org)

27 AUGUST 2010---friday:
CENTRAL:
• Against Big Oil, a benefit reading for the Louisiana Bucket Brigade with Dana Alberts, Dee Allen, Josh Boylan, Terri Carrion, Jack Hirschman, Agneta Falk Hirschman, Judy Irwin, Marc Kockinos, Geoffrey Todd Lake, Carl Macki, Daniel Michael McKenzie, David Magdalene, Chrissy Moore, Pablo Rosales, Bethany Rose, Michael Rothenberg, Arthur Sheridan, and La Tigresa with the Tongues of Flame, Rancho Parnassus, 132 Sixth Street, at Minna, SF, $5, no one turned away, 8:00-11:00
EAST:
• Final Friday Open Mic presents featured poet Q.R. Hand, Jr., hosted by Oliah Kraft and Andy Fahrenwald, J&D’s Back Room, Eureka just off Main, Sutter Creek, 7:00 (209/267-5967, allergic @ riseup.net)

30 AUGUST 2010---monday:
CENTRAL:
• Caveat Lector literary magazine presents an evening of art, poetry, and film by Dona Nieto aka La Tigresa, performing from Naked Sacred Earth Poems, local graffiti art, a screening of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surrealist 1968 romance, Fando y Lis, Revolution Café, 3248 22nd Street, at Bartlett, SF, 8:30 (415/642-0474)  
EAST:
• Sacramento Poetry Center presents a reading by Tim Hernandez and Maceo Montoya, Crossroads for the Arts, 1719 25th Street, at R Street, Sacramento, 7:30 (sacramentopoetrycenter.blogspot.com)

31 AUGUST 2010---tuesday:
CENTRAL:
• Book launch for Inconvenience, poetry by Susan Gangel and Kit Kennedy, open mic follows, 3300 Club, 3300 Mission Street, SF, 7:00 (415/826-6886, 3300club.com) 
NORTH:
• Marin Poetry Center’s Summer Traveling Show presents a reading by True Heitz, Stephen Galiani, Terry Hamilton-Poore, Ann Bacon Soule, Michael Day, and Phyllis Teplitz, hosted by Ethel Mays, Fairfax Library, 2097 Sir Frances Drake Blvd., Fairfax, 7:00 (415/453-8092, www.marinpoetrycenter.org)