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1 APRIL 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)
    EAST:
  • Sacramento Poetry Center presents an April Fools Day reading with Carlos Alcala and open mic, hosted by Paco Marquez, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, 7:00-9:30 (916/240-1897, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com)

2 APRIL 2013 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Lone Mountain Readings presents the Emerging Writers Festival, a two-evening event, tonight features Brooklyn Poet Laureate Tina Chang, Of Gods & Strangers; Elena Passarello, Let Me Clear My Throat, essays on famous human voices of TV, film, and music; she is the first female winner of the Stella! Shout Out screaming contest in New Orleans; novelist Marlon James The Book of Night Women, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and Minnesota Book Award, Maraschi Room, Fromm Hall, corner of Golden Gate Avenue and Parker Avenue, University of San Francisco main campus, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, free, 7:30 (415/422-6066, www.usfca.edu/mfaw)
  • City Arts & Lectures presents the winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics, Daniel Kahneman, Thinking and Fast and Slow, Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, $27/$22, 7:30 (415/392-4400, www.cityarts.net)
    NORTH:
  • Copperfield's Books presents their new Debut Brews series featuring new fiction writers at a brew pub; today features Kristopher Jansma, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, Beer Garden at Hopmonk Tavern, 230 Petaluma Avenue, Sebastopol, free, one free beer after buying the book, 6:00 (copperfieldsbooks.com)

3 APRIL 2013 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Lone Mountain Readings presents the Emerging Writers Festival, a two-evening event, tonight features poet Shane McCrae, Blood and Mule, finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and PEN Center USA Literary Award and novelist Dana Johnson Break Any Woman Down , winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, 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)
    NORTH:
  • Pizza party with Young Adult author Robin LaFevers, Dark Triumph, Copperfield's Books, 140 Kentucky Street, Petaluma, 7:00 (copperfieldsbooks.com)

4 APRIL 2013 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • City Arts & Lectures presents Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama, graphic memoir, and Dykes to Watch Out For, talking with Julia Bryan-Wilson, Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, $27/$22 Balcony, 7:30 (415/392-4400, www.cityarts.net)
  • Poetry Flash presents a reading by Elana Bell and Tiffany Higgins, 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)
  • The Poetry Center presents a reading by Wanda Coleman and Brenda Coultas, Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, free, 4:30 (sfsu.edu/~poetry)
  • Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff presents his book, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, and discusses "presentism," City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
  • Ellen Sussman reads from her new novel, Paradise Guest House, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary & Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
  • Laleh Khadivi reads from her novel, The Walking, the story of two Iranian brothers' escape from the Iranian Revolution, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, free, 7:30 (415/863-8688, www.booksmith.com)
  • Sixth Annual World Poetry Night in the Oral Tradition, with poets Maurice Wren, Carol Fitzgerald, Gwynn O'Gara, and Maya and Barry Specter reciting works by poets from around the world and through the ages, all by memory, audience participation welcome, bring favorite poem or haiku of your choice to recite by memory, Mechanics' Institute, Fourth Floor Meeting Room, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, $10, 7:00 (rsvp: 415/393-0101, www.milibrary.org)
    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)
    EAST:
  • Literary Lecture: "The Silence That Is Great Within Us: The Man Voices of Our Poetry," with poet and translator William O' Daly, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, 7:30 (www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com)

5 APRIL 2013 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poet Lyn Hejinian reads from the new Wesleyan University Press edition of her book, My Life, that also includes My Life in the Nineties, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary & Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
  • Studio One Reading Series presents a reading with Matthew Zapruder, Gillian Conoley, Jason Bayani, plus music by Michael Zapruder from his album of poems turned to song, Pink Thunder! refreshments, Studio One, 365 45th Street, Oakland, free, 7:30 (510/597-5027, studioonereadingseries.blogspot.com)

6 APRIL 2013 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • The SFSU Poetry Center and the MFA Writing Program of California College of the Arts present a memorial tribute to poet and translator Anselm Hollo, CCA Graduate Writing Studio, 195 DeHaro Street, San Francisco, free, 4:00 (415/703-9500, graduateprograms @cca.edu)
    NORTH:
  • Copperfield's Books presents renowned naturalist and author Jane Goodall, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants, Santa Rosa High Theater, 1235 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa, $35 one ticket plus one book/$50 two tickets plus one book, 8:00 (copperfieldsbooks.com)

7 APRIL 2013 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Flash presents a reading by Joseph Campana, Jane Mead, and Kerri Webster, 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)
  • Small Press Traffic presents Carla Harryman and Jon Raskin, Timken Hall, California College of the Arts, 1111 8th Street, San Francisco, 5:00 event begins, 5:30 performance starts (smallpresstraffic.org)

8 APRIL 2013 — monday

9 APRIL 2013 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Caroline Paul and Wendy McNaughton present Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, free, 7:30 (415/863-8688, www.booksmith.com)
    NORTH:
  • Dr. Susan Blum, The Immune System Recovery Plan: A Doctor's 4-Step Program to Treat Autoimmune Disease, Copperfield's Books, 138 N Main Street, Sebastopol, 7:00 (copperfieldsbooks.com)
  • Poetry reading by Sonoma County Poet Laureate Bill Vartnaw, Patti Trimble, and J.R. Brady, The Aqus Café, 189 H Street, Petaluma, 7:00
    SOUTH:
  • Bookshop Santa Cruz presents a poetry reading by Dane Cervine, Helene Simkin Jara, James Maughn, and Patricia Zylius, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, $3, 7:30 (831/423-0900, http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com, poetrysantacruz.org)

10 APRIL 2013 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Joyce Carol Oates reads from her new novel, The Accursed, in a rare Bay Area reading, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary & Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
  • Rachel Kushner reads from her new novel, The Flamethrowers, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, free, 7:30 (415/863-8688, www.booksmith.com)
  • Lee Fang reads from and discusses The Machine: A Field Guide to the Resurgent Right, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
    NORTH:
  • Sunset Poetry by the Bay a reading by Sharon Fain, Art Goodtimes, Blake More, Kirk Lumpkin, and Nancy Cherry, Studio 333 Art Gallery, 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito, 7:00 (415/331-8272, poetnews @sonic.net)
    SOUTH:
  • Poet Gary Snyder presents a talk at Stanford University's Terrace Room, Building 460, Margaret Jacks Hall, 450 Serra Mall, Bldg. 460, Fourth Floor, Stanford, free, noon
    EAST:
  • Tireside Chats presents a National Poetry Month event featuring author and poet Phillip Baron, co-editor of the journal OccuPoetry and editor of the Squaw Valley Review, United States Bicycling Hall of Fame & Museum, 303 3rd Street Davis, free, 6:00

11 APRIL 2013 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Stephen Beachy and Alvin Lu read from their two novellas in one volume, Some Phantom/No Time Flat, The Booksmith, 1164 Haight Street, San Francisco, free, 7:30 (415/863-8688, www.booksmith.com)
  • Sixteen Rivers Press poetry reading by Barbara Swift Brauer, At Ease in the Borrowed World, and Gerald Fleming, The Choreographer, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary & Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
  • Poetry Flash presents a reading by Kjell Espmark and Mariela Griffor, 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)
  • Ben Katchor presents his collection of graphic narratives, Hand Drying in America: And Other Stories, a surrealist handbook, Mechanics' Institute, Fourth Floor Meeting Room, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, $12/members free, 6:30 (rsvp: 415/393-0101, www.milibrary.org)
    NORTH:
  • Book Clubbers or anyone looking to join or start a club is welcome to appetizers, socializing, book talk, and prizes, after the mixer, Meg Wolitzer reads from The Interestings, Copperfield Books Montgomery Village, 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa, mixer 6:00/reading 7:00 (copperfieldsbooks.com)
    SOUTH:
  • Poetry reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder, Stanford University, Building 320 Geology Corner, Room 105, Duena Street, Stanford, free, 6:15

12 APRIL 2013 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • Novelist Jane Vandenburgh reads from her personal essay, The Wrong Dog Dream: A True Romance, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary & Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
    NORTH:
  • Copperfield's Books presents High Tea with novelist Jacqueline Winspear, Leaving Everything Most Loved, and a High Tea meal catered by Tudor Rose High Tea; Hotel La Rose, 308 Wilson Street, Santa Rosa, $50 includes copy of the book and High Tea meal, 6:00 (copperfieldsbooks.com)

13 APRIL 2013 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Join New York Times best-selling mystery author J.A. Jance, Deadly Stakes, for dinner at Monti's Rotisserie & Bar, followed by a reading at Copperfield's Books Montgomery Village; Monti's Rotisserie & Bar, 714 Village Court, Santa Rosa, $50 dinner and wine ticket; reading free, dinner 5:30/reading 7:00 (copperfieldsbooks.com)
    EAST:
  • 13x13 WTF?! with poetry/prose reading, spoken word/soundscape performances, and art exhibition; beats and spoken word from Ruben Reveles, Rachel Leibrock, Sage Robbins, frank andrick; exhibition of art work by Shoka, Allyson Seconds, Kevin Seconds, Ruben Reveles, Sandy Thomas, Trina Drotar, Wendy Rivara, Cynthia Linville, Rachel Leibrock, Christopher Fairman, frank andrick, Katy Brown, open mic hosted by Gabe Sanford, The Vox Gallery, 1818 11th Street, Sacramento, refreshments, free, 5:30 (voxsac.com)
  • Sacramento Poetry Center presents lectures, workshops, and readings from Juliana Spahr, Thomas Centolella, Michael Zapruder, Jon Woodward, Judy Halebsky, and Kate Asche, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, $30/$20 members, 9:00-4:00 (916/240-1897, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com)

14 APRIL 2013 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Inside Out, a program of Center for the Art of Translation, teaches children about translatating poems from different languages, this interactive workshop facilitated by Laura Davis, author of Braiding the Storm, is for kids nine and up, with their adults, all materials provided, bring snacks, free, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 (rsvp is required for this event at events @booksmith.com; 415/863-8688, www.booksmith.com)
  • A reading from Frances Driscoll's The Rape Poems, Revolution Books, 2425 Channing Way, Berkeley, free, 6:00(510/848-1196, www.revolutionbooks.org)
  • Valona Deli presents poets Phil Metres, abu ghraib arias, winner of the Arab American Book Awards for Poetry, and Gerald Fleming, 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)

15 APRIL 2013 — monday

    EAST:
  • Poetry reading by Blas Falconer and Albert Flynn DeSilver, Beamish Boy (I Am Not My Story): A Memoir of Recovery & Awakening, hosted by Tim Kahl, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, 7:30 (www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com)

16 APRIL 2013 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Flash, Culture Ireland, and Moe's presents a reading by Irish poets Patrick Cotter and Matthew Sweeney, 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)
  • Gish Jen reads from her new essays, Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self, and in conversation with writer Maxine Hong Kingston, Mechanics' Institute, Fourth Floor Meeting Room, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, $12/members free, 6:00 (rsvp: 415/393-1010, www.milibrary.org/events/gishjen)

17 APRIL 2013 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Holloway Poetry Reading Series presents Canadian poet Anne Carson, her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, and a MacArthur, Maude Fife Room 315, Wheeler Hall, Third Floor, Berkeley, free, 6:30 (hollowayreadingseries.wordpress.com)
  • Ian Svenonius discusses Supernatural Strategies in popular music, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
  • Elizabeth Scarboro reads from her new memoir, My Foreign Cities, about her new husband who has a degenerative disease that dooms his prospect living past his thirties, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, free, 7:30 (415/863-8688, www.booksmith.com)

18 APRIL 2013 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • The Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics: poet and editor Judith Goldman delivers this year's talk, "Extinction Sinks & (Post)humanisms in Contemporary Poetry," reception follows, University of California campus, Third Floor, Maude Fife Room 315, Wheeler Hall, Berkeley, free and open to the public, 7:00
  • Fiona Maazel reads from her new novel, Woke Up Lonely, centered on Thurlow Dan, founder of a cult based on the idea that everyone is lonely, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, free, 7:30 (415/863-8688, www.booksmith.com)
  • B. Ruby Rich discusses her new book, New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
    NORTH:
  • Marin Poetry Center presents "The New ZYZZYVA," a reading by ZYZZYVA literary journal contributing poets Heather Altfeld, Troy Jollimore, and Lynne Knight, and contributing fiction writer and poet Joseph Di Prisco, hosted by managing editor Oscar Villalon, Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Street, at E, San Rafael, $5/$3 MPC members, 7:30 (www.marinpoetrycenter.org)
  • Marin Poetry Center presents a talk and brief reading by the new Marin County Poet Laureate Joseph Zaccardi, The Nine Gradations of Light, on his plans for his tenure, with cake and champagne, Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Street, at E, San Rafael, 6:00 (www.marinpoetrycenter.org)
    SOUTH:
  • Poetry Center San José presents a poetry reading in celebration of National Poetry Month with Palestinian poet and playwright Nathalie Handal, The Lives of Rain, and poet and translator Philip Metres, abu ghraib arias, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Room 225/229, 150 East San Fernando Street, San Jose, free, 7:00 (408/808-2000, www.pcsj.org)

19 APRIL 2013 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • The SFSU Poetry Center presents "Vital Forms: Healing and the Arts of Crisis," a two-day symposium featuring poet Eleni Stecopoulos, with special guests Melissa Buzzeo, Thom Donovan, Margit Galanter, Bhanu Kapil, Beth Murray, Pavlos Stravropoulos, and david wolach; this evening's symposium features talks and performances, Subterranean Arthouse, 2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, $10/$5, a two-day, all event ticket is available at the door on this first evening: $25/$15, no one turned away for lack of funds, 7:00-9:30 (510/508-3492, sfsu.edu/~poetry)
  • Underpass Reading Series presents a poetry reading by Alli Warren, Acting Out, Well-Meaning White Girls, and Cousins, and Angela Hume, The Middle and Second Story of Your Body, Bica Coffeehouse, 5701 College Avenue, Oakland, free, 7:30 (510/350-7875)

20 APRIL 2013 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • The SFSU Poetry Center presents "Vital Forms: Healing and the Arts of Crisis," a two-day symposium featuring Eleni Stecopoulos, with special guests: Melissa Buzzeo, Thom Donovan, Margit Galanter, Bhanu Kapil, Beth Murray, Pavlos Stravropoulos, and david wolach; this afternoon symposium features workshops integrating writing with movement/somatic work, $10/$5, no one turned away for lack of funds, 2:00-4:30 (510/508-3492, sfsu.edu/~poetry)
  • The SFSU Poetry Center presents "Vital Forms: Healing and the Arts of Crisis," a two-day symposium featuring Eleni Stecopoulos, with special guests: Melissa Buzzeo, Thom Donovan, Margit Galanter, Bhanu Kapil, Beth Murray, Pavlos Stravropoulos, and david wolach; this evening symposium features talks and performance, Subterranean Arthouse, 2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, $10/$5, no one turned away for lack of funds, 7:00-9:30 (510/508-3492, sfsu.edu/~poetry)
    NORTH:
  • The sixth annual LitFest is a "Celebration for Word Lovers," featuring Ukiah Poet Laureate Dan Barth, writer and playwright Natasha Yim, novelist Jean Hegland, thriller novelist Carl R. Brush, novelist Doris Eraldi, photographer Tom Liden, poet Armando Garcia-Dàvila, writer, poet, and playwright Waights Taylor Jr., cookbook author Margaret Fox, plus a poetry writing workshop with the Mendocino Poets: Melinda Clarke, Nancy Horrocks, Ginny DeVries, Helen Falandes, and Maluma, workshops on self-publication and small presses, writing narrataive nonfiction, writer's block, memoir, and much more, Mendocino College, 1000 Hensley Creek Road, Ukiah, free, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 (707/468-3051, www.mendocino.edu/tc/pg/6227/litfest.html)
    SOUTH:
  • A New Cadence Poetry Series presents a reading and book party for Stephen Kessler's new book of poems, Scratching Pegasus, and the first English translation of the late Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre's, Poems of Consummation, conversation and libations, Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, free, 7:30 (408/373-2854)

21 APRIL 2013 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Small Press Traffic presents Steven Farmer, Glowball, and Maged Zaher, Thank You for the Window Office, Artist Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, event begins 5:00, reading 5:30 (smallpresstraffic.org)
  • Dieter Hagenbach and Lucius Werthmuller discuss Mystic Chemist: The Life of Albert Hofmann and His Discovery of LSD, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
  • Creative writing workshop for mothers or grandmothers of any age and daughters or granddaughters ages 8-11, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, $99 per pair, pre-registration required via Brown Paper Tickets, 2:00-5:00 (415/863-8688, www.booksmith.com)
    SOUTH:
  • Poet/Speak Open Reading with featured reader Jake Young, his poetry has appeared in Red Wheelbarrow, Solo Novo, and Alimentum, hosted by Jim Russo, Santa Cruz Main Library, upstairs meeting room, 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, free, open reading sign up 2:00 sharp, read your own or a favorite poem, three to five minute limit, event 2:00-4:00 (831/427-7707)

22 APRIL 2013 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • "Poetry & Parlor Games: A Surreal Experience," explore surrealist poetry writing techniques and play the parlor game Exquisite Cadaver, with Mechanics' Institute librarians Taryn Edwards, Jermey Snell, Diane Lai and many MI member poets, Mechanics' Institute Library, Fourth Floor Meeting Room, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, free, noon (415/393-0101, www.milibrary.org)
    EAST:
  • Sacramento Poetry Center presents a reading by Lee Herrick and Alice Anderson, hosted by Tim Kahl, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, 7:30-9:00 (916/240-1897, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com)

23 APRIL 2013 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • William Luvaas reads from his new short story collection, Ashes Rain Down: A Story Cycle, what life might be like after decades of global warming, San Francisco Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:30-7:30 (415/557-4400, sfpl.org)
  • In a rare appearance, novelist Joyce Carol Oates reads from The Accursed, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)

24 APRIL 2013 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Reception and reading by William Luvaas in celebration of his new short story collection, Ashes Rain Down: A Story Cycle, what life might be like after decades of global warming, refreshments, Heyday Books, 1633 University Avenue, Berkeley, free, 6:30 (510/549-3564, heydaybooks.com)
  • Screenwriter for Fox, Warner Brothers and Disney Studios, Owen Egerton reads from and celebrates his humorous, dark satire, Everyone Says That At The End Of The World, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, free, 7:30, (415/863-8688, www.booksmith.com)
  • Philip Kerr, author of eight previous Bernie Gunther novels, most recently Field Gray and Prague Fatale, both New York Times best sellers, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/849-2087, moesbooks.com)
  • A celebration of the release of Tosh Berman's Sparks-Tastic: Twenty-One Nights with Sparks in London, about touring with the band Sparks, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)

25 APRIL 2013 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • The Poetry Center presents an interview with poet and jazz drummer Clark Coolidge by Steve Dickison, The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, HUM 512, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, free, 3:30 (415/338-2227, sfsu.edu/~poetry)
  • The SFSU Poetry Center presents a reading by Clark Coolidge, Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell Street, San Francisco, $10/$5 low-income admission, free to SFSU students and Poetry Center members, 7:00 (415/398-7229, sfsu.edu/~poetry)
  • Helen Wecker reads from her new novel, The Golem and Jinni, an immigrant tale that combines the elements of Jewish and Arab folk mythology, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, free, 7:30, (415/863-8688, www.booksmith.com)
  • Paul A. Lee reads from There Is a Garden in the Mind: A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California, Mechanics' Institute, Fourth Floor Meeting Room, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, $12/free to members, 6:00 (rsvp: 415/393-0101, www.milibrary.org)
    EAST:
  • A poetry reading by four-time National Poetry Slam champion Patricia Smith, Blood Dazzler and Teahouse of the Almighty, Cal State East Bay, Biella Room, University Library, 25800 Carlos Bee Boulevard, Hayward, free, 7:00 (510/885-3664)

26 APRIL 2013 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • National Poetry Month reading features ten Omnidawn poets and writers presenting brief readings, including George Albon, Maxine Chernoff, Gillian Conoley, Lyn Hejinian, Angela Hume, Alice Jones, Bill Mayer, kathryn l. pringle, Lynn Xu, refreshments, Pegasus Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00 (510/649-1320, www.pegasusbookstore.com/pegasus-downtown, www.omnidawn.com)
    SOUTH:
  • Flor y Canto/Flower and Song presents a poetry reading with music and dance, featuring Shirley Ancheta, John Olivares Espinoza, Carolina Evans Roman, Rebecca Garcia, Francisco Iñiguez, Geneffa Jonker, Danusha Laméris, Sandra Macías, Fanya Montalvo, Magdalena Montagne, Adela Najarro, Joe Navarro, Ekua Omosupe, Carolina Evans Roman, Stan Rushworth, and Phillip Wagner; musician Armando Alcaraz and dancer Lalo Alvarez; three open mic spots are available for members of the community on a first-come, first-served basis for poetry or song, presented by the Cabrillo College English Department and Poetry Santa Cruz, Erica Schilling Forum 450, Cabrillo College Aptos Campus, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos, free, 7:00 (poetrysantacruz.org)
    EAST:
  • Stories on Stage features short fiction by established and emerging writers introduced by their authors and read by actors, tonight's event presents short story writer Nancy Zafris, The Home Jar, poet and prose writer Geoffrey Neill, actor Wade Lucas, and playwright Leo McElroy, and hosted by Valerie Fioravanti, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, $5, doors open 7:00 (storiesonstagesacramento.wordpress.com)

27 APRIL 2013 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Secrets on the Way, a dance theater performance inspired by the work of Nobel Prize-winning Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, dancers include Blythe Berg, Ramzi Jneid, Nitipat Pholchai, Lissa Resnick, and Linnea Snyderman, with readings by actor Earll Kingston, presented by Kathryn Roszak's Danse Lumière, Osher Studio, Berkeley Central Building, 2055 Center Street, Berkeley, $20/$15 students, seniors, limited seating, advance purchase recommended, 8:00 (tickets: 1-800-838-3006, secretsontheway.brownpapertickets.com; 510/233-5550, kdance @sonic.net)

28 APRIL 2013 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Secrets on the Way, a dance theater performance inspired by the work of Nobel Prize-winning Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, dancers include Blythe Berg, Ramzi Jneid, Nitipat Pholchai, Lissa Resnick, and Linnea Snyderman, with readings by actor Earll Kingston, presented by Kathryn Roszak's Danse Lumière, Osher Studio, Berkeley Central Building, 2055 Center Street, Berkeley, $20/$15 students, seniors, limited seating, advance purchase recommended, 2:00 (tickets: 1-800-838-3006, secretsontheway.brownpapertickets.com; 510/233-5550, kdance @sonic.net)
    NORTH:
  • The eleventh annual Ukiah Haiku Festival celebration and competition features a reading by winning poets, SPACE Theatre, 508 West Perkins Street, Ukiah, free, reading 2:00, reception with refreshments at 3:00 (www.ukiahaiku.org)

29 APRIL 2013 — monday

    NORTH:
  • Sacramento Poetry Center presents a reading by Mary Zeppa and Annie Menebroker with music by Cynthia Speakman, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, 7:30 (916/240-1897, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com)

30 APRIL 2013 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore reads from The End of San Francisco, memoir of a queer activist, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
  • City Arts & Lectures hosts "The Last Foxtrot," a special event celebrating thirty-two years at the Herbst Theatre, with Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days, host of radio's A Prairie Home Companion, humorist Calvin Trillin, with music by pianist Peter Duchin, Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, $27/$22, 7:30 (415/392-4400, www.cityarts.net)

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