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1 FEBRUARY 2013 — friday

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2 FEBRUARY 2013 — saturday

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3 FEBRUARY 2013 — sunday

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4 FEBRUARY 2013 — monday

NORTH:
• UUCSR/Unitarian Universalist Congregation Santa Rosa Writers monthly meeting, open to all writers, any genre, membership not required, Glaser Center, 547 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa, 4:00-6:00 (GGdeB @ aol.com, uucsrwriters.blogspot.com)
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5 FEBRUARY 2013 — tuesday

CENTRAL:
• Poetry reading by D.A. Powell, Mary Szybist, Dobby Gibson, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
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6 FEBRUARY 2013 — wednesday

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7 FEBRUARY 2013 — thursday

CENTRAL:
• The Poetry Center presents a reading by poet, editor, and Native American activist Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, with live music by multi-instrumentalist and ethnomusicologist John-Carlos Perea and percussionist Jimmy Biala, HUM 512, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, free, 4:30 (www.sfsu.edu/~poetry)
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• City Lights Books celebrates an intimate evening with novelist T. Cooper, Real Man Adventures, a collage of letters, essays, artwork, and interviews published by McSweeney's, Viracocha, 998 Valencia Street, San Francisco (between 21st Street and Liberty Street), free, 7:00 (www.citylights.com)
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NORTH:
• Sonoma County Poetry Slam, with prizes, emcee Tom J. Mariani, UUCSR Writers Poet Laureate and guest former slam winners, Glaser Center, 547 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa, free, sign up 6:45, show 7:00-9:00 (slam information: southforkboots @gmail.com)
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8 FEBRUARY 2013 — friday

CENTRAL:
• Berkeley
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9 FEBRUARY 2013 — saturday

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10 FEBRUARY 2013 — sunday

CENTRAL:
• Valona Deli presents poets Danusha Lameris and Keith Ekiss, Pima Road, open mic follows, with host Connie Post, Terry Henry Jazz Trio performs after poetry, Valona Deli, 1323 Pomona, Crockett, 4:00-6:00 (510/787-2022)
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• Writer, translator and music critic Daniel Levin Becker reads from Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature, Maraschi Room, Fromm Hall 125, University of San Francisco campus, San Francisco, 6:00-7:30 (415/422-6357)
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• Phyllis Stowell reads at a book party for her new poetry collection, Sundered, at the Marrus home, 8 Roble Court, Berkeley, 2:00-5:00, reading at 2:30 (to attend, rsvp: ptstowell @gmail.com)
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NORTH:
• A poetry reading and book signing for Jim Brown's Language Be My Bronco, with guest readers Jill Gardener and Beth Beurkens, Shaman's Eye, Mount Shasta Branch Library, 515 East Alma Street, Mount Shasta, 1:30-3:30 (530/926-2031)
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11 FEBRUARY 2013 — monday

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12 FEBRUARY 2013 — tuesday

CENTRAL:
• Adam Mansbach reads from his new novel, Rage is Back, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00
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13 FEBRUARY 2013 — wednesday

CENTRAL:
• Celebration for Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion, with editor Virgie Tovar, and guests: Jessica Judd, Deah Schwartz, Abby Weintraub, Tigress Osborn, and Genne Murphy, Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/649-1320, www.pegasusbookstore.com)
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• ZYZZYVA literary magazine's Poetry All-Stars Reading, with poets Matthew Dickman, Robin Ekiss, Dean Rader, hosted by Laura Cogan, Editor of ZYZZYVA, and Oscar Villalon, Managing Editor, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00
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14 FEBRUARY 2013 — thursday

CENTRAL:
• Canessa Park Reading Series, on its new "every third Friday" schedule, presents a poetry reading by poet and printer Dale Going, As/Of the Whole, winner of the San Francisco State University Poetry Chapbook Award, and K. Silem Mohammad, The Front, (he anagrammatizes Shakespeare's sonnets into all-new English sonnets in iambic pentameter), Canessa Park Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street, at Columbus, San Francisco, $6, no one turned away for lack of funds, 7:30
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• Poetry Flash presents a reading by Brittany Perham, wheelchair accessible, request ASL interpreters one week in advance from editor @poetryflash.org, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, moesbooks.com)
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• Thursdays at Readers Poetry Series presents poets devorah major and Adrian Arias, hosted by poet Jack Hirschman, Reader's Bookstore, Building C, South End, Fort Mason Center, off Marina Blvd. at Buchanan Street, San Francisco, 6:30 (415/771-1011, www.friendssfpl.org/?Events)
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15 FEBRUARY 2013 — friday

CENTRAL:
• Poetry reading by Richard Silberg, The Horses: New and Selected, and Eliot Schain, open mic follows, Expressions Gallery, 2035 Ashby, at Adeline, across from Ashby BART, Berkeley, 7:00-9:00 (510/644-4930, www.expressionsgallery.org)
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16 FEBRUARY 2013 — saturday

CENTRAL:
• Launch party for the new issue of Ambush Review, edited by Bob Booker and Patrick Cahill, with a reading featuring contributing poets and writers Jack Hirschman, Sharon Coleman, Angelos Sakkis, James Cagney, Grace Marie Grafton, Jonathan Hayes, David Beckman, Lissa Tyler Renaud, Al Averbach, and Nick Whittington; other local publications will also be on display, such as Amerarcana, North Coast Literary Review, Caveat Lector, Great Weather for Media, Left Curve, Out of Our Poetry Magazine, Over the Transom, RE/search Publications, The Occupy Anthology, and many others; live music by George Long on saxophone and Steven Gray on acoustic guitar, wine and complimentary food, The Emerald Tablet, 80 Fresno Street, San Francisco, free, doors open 7:00, readings 8:00 (emtab.org/ambush-review-presents)
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17 FEBRUARY 2013 — sunday

CENTRAL:
• Poetry Flash presents a reading by Cheryl Dumesnil and Judy Grahn, wheelchair accessible, request ASL interpreters one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org, Diesel, A Bookstore, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, 3:00 (510/653-9965, dieselbookstore.com)
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• Editions Michel Eyquem fundraiser for the first major English publication of Leopoldo María Panero's Like an eye in the hand of a beggar, selected and translated by Arturo Mantecón, event features guest readings from San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguía, award-winning poet Francisco X Alarcón, Arturo Mantecón, and performances by Unheimliche Theater featuring Gilberto Rodriquez, Viracocha, 998 Valencia Street, San Francisco, free, full bar by donation only, seating limited, 8:00 (415/374-7048; rsvp: Solomon Rino, solorino @gmail.com, or books @edtionsmicheleyquem.com)
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18 FEBRUARY 2013 — monday

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19 FEBRUARY 2013 — tuesday

CENTRAL:
• Daniel Levin Becker, translator, celebrates the release of La Boutique Obscure: 124 Dreams by George Perec, a French novelist, filmmaker, and essayist who livd 1936-1982, in conversation with critic and consultant on translated literature Scott Esposito, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00
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• Poetry at the Albany Library presents a poetry reading by Susan Cohen, Throat Singing, and Zara Raab, Swimming the Eel, open mic follows, hosted by Catherine Taylor, Albany Library, 1247 Marin Avenue, Albany, 7:00 (510/526-3720, albanylibrary.wordpress.com)
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• The Holloway Poetry Reading Series presents Major Jackson, Holding Company and Hoops, finalists for the NAACP Image Award, reading with graduate student Allison Neal, Maude Fife Room, Third Floor, Wheeler Hall 315, University of California campus, Berkeley, free, 6:30 (hollowayreadingseries.wordpress.com)
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NORTH:
• Patricia Schultz presents the second edition of 1000 Places to See Before You Die, the new edition includes two hundred new entries and twenty-eight added countries, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, free, 7:00 (415/927-0960, bookpassage.com)
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20 FEBRUARY 2013 — wednesday

CENTRAL:
• Lone Mountain Readings presents novelist, short story writer, and graphic novelist Daniel Alarcón, A Night We Walk in Circles and Lost City Radio, winner of the 2009 International Literature Prize, Maraschi Room, Fromm Hall, corner of Golden Gate Avenue and Parker Avenue, University of San Francisco main campus, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, free, 7:45 (415/422-6066, www.usfca.edu/mfaw)
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• Poet, fiction writer, and translator Kazim Ali reads from Sky Ward: New Poems, Soda Center, Claey's Lounge, Saint Mary's College of California, 1928 Saint Mary's Road, Moraga, free, 7:00 (925/631-8556, writers @stmarys-ca.edu)
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• Lyrics and Dirges monthly series presents "Fifty Shades of Rainbow," a reading by Carol Queen, MariNaomi, Denise Jolly, John Panzer, Dani Burlison and Jiz Lee, hosted by Tomas Moniz, Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/649-1320, www.pegasusbookstore.com)
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• "Crafting Discovery," an Afternoon Craft Conversation with poet, activist, and essayist Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War, Hagerty Lounge, Saint Mary's College of California, 1928 Saint Mary's Road, Moraga, free, 2:15-3:15 (925/631-8556, writers @stmarys-ca.edu)
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NORTH:
• John Wood presents Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy, founder of Room to Read, a nonprofit that promotes education, gender equality, and literacy around the world, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, free, 7:00 (415/927-0960, bookpassage.com)
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21 FEBRUARY 2013 — thursday

CENTRAL:
• Reading and book launch for The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, an anthology, part of the 2013 Conference on Ecopoetics, Studio One Art Center, 365 45th Street, Oakland, free, 7:00
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• Poetry Flash presents a reading by Beverley Bie Brahic, Ann Fisher-Wirth, and Chana Bloch, wheelchair accessible, request ASL interpreters one week in advance from editor @poetryflash.org, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, moesbooks.com)
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• The Poetry Center presents CAConrad and Kazim Ali, HUM 512, San Francisco State University campus, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, free, 4:30 (sfsu.edu/~poetry)
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• City Lights presents "The Fight Song Show," a performance in four acts celebrating the launch of Fight Song: A Novel, with Josh Mohr and friends, poets and writers Tony Dushane, Daphne Gottlieb, Jon Longhi, Bucky Sinister, followed by a conversation with Josh Mohr and Peter Maravelis, 50-A Bannam Alley, North Beach, San Francisco, get free but required tickets in advance at the front counter of City Lights Books (261 Columbus Avenue), doors open 7:00, show 7:30
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• Marty Brounstein presents his new book, Two Among the Righteous Few: A Story of Courage in the Holocaust, the true story of Frans and Mein Winjnakker saving dozens of Jews during World War II, Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, at Grove Street, free, 6:30-8:00 (415/557-4400, www.friendssfpl.org)
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• Mary F. Burns reads from her new book, Portraits of an Artist, an imaginative historical novel on John Singer Sargent, BookShop West Portal, 80 West Portal Ave, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/564-8080, bookpassage.com)
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• "The Prince of Pop Art" Mitch O'Connell reads from and signs his new book, The World's Best Artist, a collection of his illustrations, Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/649-1320, www.pegasusbookstore.com)
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• Thursdays at Readers Poetry Series presents poets Ramu and Fred Norman, hosted by poet Jack Hirschman, Reader's Bookstore, Building C, South End, Fort Mason Center, off Marina Blvd. at Buchanan Street, San Francisco, 6:30 (415/771-1011, www.friendssfpl.org/?Events)
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NORTH:
• Former private investigator and New York Times Notable author David Corbett reads from The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film and TV, offering insight into creating fictional characters, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, free, 7:00 (415/927-0960, bookpassage.com)
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• Marin Poetry Center presents a poetry reading by Natalie Diaz, Lucille Lang Day, Luke Warm Water, Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Street, at E, San Rafael, $5/$3 MPC members, 7:30 (www.marinpoetrycenter.org)
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• Book Passage and Dominican University present author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright discussing Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948, a memoir of her experiences during the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, Dominican University, Angelico Hall, 50 Acacia Avenue, San Rafael, $25 admission includes an autographed copy of the book, 7:00 (415/927-0960, for tickets: 415/927-0960x1, or bookpassage.com)
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• Third Thursday Poetry Night presents an extended open mic with live jazz improv, featured reader Troy Jollimore had to cancel due to illness, 215 Main Street, Point Arena, 7:30 (blake more, blake @snakelyone.com)
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SOUTH:
• Poetry Center San José presents a reading by Pushpa MacFarlane, open mic follows, Willow Glen Library, 1157 Minnesota Avenue, San Jose, free, 7:00 (408/808-3045, or 408/266-1361, www.pcsj.org)
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EAST:
• U.C. Davis hosts this reading as part of the 2013 Conference on Ecopoetics, featuring poets Jonathan Skinner, Birds of Tifft, and Brian Teare, Companion Grasses, University of California at Davis, Voorhies Hall, First Floor, Room 126, Davis, free, 1:00-3:00 (ecopoeticsconference.blogspot.com)
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22 FEBRUARY 2013 — friday

CENTRAL:
• The 2013 UC Berkeley all-weekend Conference on Ecopoetics has closed its registration, but two evenings of poets dynamically engaged with ecopoetics are open to the public, featuring readings by Charles Alexander, John Beer, Lee Ann Brown, David Buuck, Julie Carr, Allison Cobb, Alicia Cohen, CA Conrad, Joshua Corey, Camille T. Dungy, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Forrest Gander, Ross Gay, C.S. Giscombe, Arielle Greenberg, Rob Halpern, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Angela Hume, Brenda Iijima, Myung Mi Kim, Charles Legere, Rachel Levitsky, Ira Livingston, David Lukas, Laura Moriarty, Rusty Morrison, Stephen Motika, Laura Mullen, Eileen Myles, Gillian Osborne, Craig Santos Perez, Stephen Ratcliffe, a.rawlings, Evelyn Reilly, Kaia Sand, Jennifer Scappettone, John Shoptaw, giovanni singleton, Jonathan Skinner, Jared Stanley, Heidi Lynn Staples, Eleni Stecopoulos, Brian Teare, Sarah Vap, Hazel White, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Tyrone Williams, University of California campus, Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall, Third Floor, Room 315, Berkeley, free, 8:00-10:30
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23 FEBRUARY 2013 — saturday

CENTRAL:
• The 2013 UC Berkeley all-weekend Conference on Ecopoetics has closed its registration, but two evenings of poets dynamically engaged with ecopoetics are open to the public, featuring readings by Charles Alexander, John Beer, Lee Ann Brown, David Buuck, Julie Carr, Allison Cobb, Alicia Cohen, CA Conrad, Joshua Corey, Camille T. Dungy, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Forrest Gander, Ross Gay, C.S. Giscombe, Arielle Greenberg, Rob Halpern, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Angela Hume, Brenda Iijima, Myung Mi Kim, Charles Legere, Rachel Levitsky, Ira Livingston, David Lukas, Laura Moriarty, Rusty Morrison, Stephen Motika, Laura Mullen, Eileen Myles, Gillian Osborne, Craig Santos Perez, Stephen Ratcliffe, a.rawlings, Evelyn Reilly, Kaia Sand, Jennifer Scappettone, John Shoptaw, giovanni singleton, Jonathan Skinner, Jared Stanley, Heidi Lynn Staples, Eleni Stecopoulos, Brian Teare, Sarah Vap, Hazel White, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Tyrone Williams, University of California campus, Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall, Third Floor, Room 315, Berkeley, free, 8:00-10:30
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NORTH:
• Poet and musician Avotcja reads from her new book, With Every Step I Take, with music by percussionist Val Serrant on steel drums, open mic follows, refreshments, Rebound Bookstore, 1611 4th Street, San Rafael, free/donation requested, 4:00-6:00 (to sign up for the open mic, contact: 415/482-0550, Reboundbookstore @aol.com)
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• Chris Rainer reads from his book Cultures on the Edge, vivid anthropological imagery of indigenous cultures used to illuminate societies who may be vulnerable to exterior powers, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, free, 4:00 (415/927-0960, bookpassage.com)
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• Deborah Crombie reads from her detective novel, The Sound of Broken Glass, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, free, 7:00 (415/927-0960, bookpassage.com)
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• Gretel Erlich reads from her book Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami, a blend of narrative, reflection and poetry on the tsunami in northeastern Japan, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, free, 1:00 (415/927-0960, bookpassage.com)
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24 FEBRUARY 2013 — sunday

CENTRAL:
• Leslie Bell reads from and discusses Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary & Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free, 4:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
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NORTH:
• Laura Deutsch, Spud Hilton, Kimberley Lovato, and Jill Robinson read from their newest Traveler's Tales humor anthology, Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana, joined by the editor Marcy Gordon for Q&A after the reading, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, free, 1:00 (415/927-0960, bookpassage.com)
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25 FEBRUARY 2013 — monday

NORTH:
• Novelist Margaret Wrinkle reads from Wash, the early 1800s story of two men, a woman, and slavery in Tennessee, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, free, 7:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)
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SOUTH:
• Lane Lecture Series presents a reading by novelist Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot, Cemex Auditorium, Zambrano Hall, Knight Management Center, Stanford University campus, Stanford, free and open to the public, 8:00 (650/723-0011, creativewriting.stanford.edu)
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26 FEBRUARY 2013 — tuesday

SOUTH:
• A colloquium with novelist Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot, Terrace Room, Fourth Floor, Margaret Jacks Hall, Building 460, Stanford University campus, Stanford, free and open to the public, 11:00 a.m. (650/723-0011, creativewriting.stanford.edu)
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27 FEBRUARY 2013 — wednesday

CENTRAL:
• Release party and reading for Enizagam literary journal, a student-run literary publication, featuring poets and writers Arisa White, Kiala Givehand, Kameron McDowell, Chloe Ashley, Olivia Hoffman, Mina Jameson, Jimmy Olney, Francesca Pemberton, Maryam Selassie, and Gabriela Shaffer, Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/649-1320, www.pegasusbookstore.com)
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• Dr. Sheppard B. Kominars presents a program of poetry from his collection Eighth Decade Poems: Perspectives on Aging, with a discussion of journal writing techniques from his book Write For Life: Healing Body, Mind and Spirit Through Journal Writing, Glen Park Branch Library, 2825 Diamond Street, San Francisco, free, 6:30 (sfpl.org)
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• A reading by Jerry Stahl, editor of The Heroin Chronicles, an anthology, author of Bad Sex On Speed, and screenwriter of Hemingway and Gellhorn; Rich Ferguson, 8th & Agony, a winner of Opium Magazine's Literary Death Match, Los Angeles; and professional jazz drummer and novelist Bill Moody, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/849-2087, moesbooks.com)
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• Novelist Victor LaValle reads from The Devil in Silver, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00
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SOUTH:
• Santa Clara Review celebrates its one hundredth issue with a reading by California Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, check out the new digital e-reader format of the review, refreshments, St. Clare Room, Third Floor, University Library, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, free, 4:00-6:00 (Library: 408/554-4415, santaclarareview.com)
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28 FEBRUARY 2013 — thursday

CENTRAL:
• The Poetry Center presents Rosa Alcalá and Roberto Tejada, HUM 512, San Francisco State University campus, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, free, 4:30 (sfsu.edu/~poetry)
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• Thursdays at Readers Poetry Series presents poets Robert Chrisman, The Dirty Wars, and George Long, hosted by poet Jack Hirschman, Reader's Bookstore, Building C, South End, Fort Mason Center, off Marina Blvd. at Buchanan Street, San Francisco, 6:30 (415/771-1011, www.friendssfpl.org/?Events)
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• Margaret Wrinkle reads from debut novel, Wash, set in early 1800s Tennessee, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary & Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
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• City Lights in Conjunction with Penny-Ante Editions and Janey Smith 851 Reading Series present an event accompanied by Stewart Home, Jarrett Kobek, John Tottenham, The Odd Fellows Hall, 26 7th Street (between Market Street and Stevenson Street), San Francisco, 94103 Free and open to public, 7:00
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