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29 APRIL 2012 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Novelist and translator Carolina De Robertis, The Invisible Mountain, reads from her new book Perla, Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, 4:00 (510/704-8222, mrsdalloways.com)
  • Broadcast journalist and poet Dennis Bernstein gives a reading and signing from his first full poetry collection Special Ed: Vices from a Hidden Classroom, Diesel, A Bookstore, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, 3:00 (510-653-9965, Oakland@dieselbookstore.com)
  • Launch for Left Curve #36, an artist-produced journal addressing cultural forms that emerge from the crises of modernity, hosted by editor Csaba Polony with readings by contributors, City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, at Broadway, San Francisco, 5:00 (415/362-4921, www.citylights.com)
  • Poet/translator Zack Rogow, My Mother and the Ceiling Dancers, and novelist/poet Mary Mackey, Sugar Zone, read from their new collections of poetry, Mythos Fine Art and Artifacts, 1747 Solano Avenue, Berkely, 3:00-4:30 (510/528-4291, mythosfineart@gmail.com)
  • Poetry reading by ruth weiss with jazz percussion, in conjunction with "The Painted Word," an art exhibition curated by Peter Selz and Sue Kubly, featuring the art work of William Saroyan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, Jack Hirschman, Jess, Robert Duncan, Michael McClure, Jack Micheline, Henry Miller, Kenneth Patchen, Christopher Felver, John Keating, William S Burroughs, and David Meltzer, the show runs from April 28 to June 9, Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell Street, San Francisco, poetry reading today 5:30, gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11:00 a.m.-5:00

30 APRIL 2012 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poet's Gallery presents open mic night, Caffe Greco, 423 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 6:30-9:30
  • Grand Opening of Small Press Distribution Reading Room and celebration of the last day of poetry month, guest poets will read silently to themselves for 30-minute intervals all day, free snacks, gift of free poetry book for all attendants, a $20 or less value, forty percent off discount on more than 10,000 books, poets' reading schedule (they will be enjoying a book, not reading their work): 11:00 Michael Cross, 11:30 Hugo García Manríquez, 12:00 Andrew Kenower, 12:30 Michael Nicoloff, 1:00 Giovanni Singleton, 1:30 Norma Cole, 2:00 Charles Legere, 2:30 Chris Chen, 3:00 Brian Ang, 3:30 Christian Nagler, 4:00 Samantha Giles, 4:30 Taylor Brady, 5:00 David Brazil, 5:30 Linda Norton, 6:00 Suzanne Stein, 6:30 Ben Mirov, 7:00 Amanda Nadelberg, and 7:30 Melissa Benham, Small Press Distribution, 1341 Seventh Street, Berkeley, free, 11:00 a.m.-8:00 (510/524-1688x306, laura @ spdbooks.org)

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