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23 SEPTEMBER 2013 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Express presents a featured reading by L.A. poet Terry McCarty, Hollywood Poetry: 2001-2013, note new venue with mic and parking, Himalayan Flavors, 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley, 7:00 ( www.facebook.com/poetryexpressberkeley)

24 SEPTEMBER 2013 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • City Arts & Lectures presents novelist Terry McMillan, Who Asked You?, in conversation with Michael Krasny, host of KQED's Forum, benefits 826 Valencia Scholarship Program, Nourse Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $27, 7:30 (tickets: 415/392-4400, www.cityarts.net)
    SOUTH:
  • Write to the End Workshop for all writers and writing genres, drop-in coffee shop workshop, Snake & Butterfly, 191 E. Campbell Avenue, Campbell, 7:00-9:00 (www.writetotheend.com)

25 SEPTEMBER 2013 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Shirley Streshinsky and Patrick Klaus present An Atomic Love Story: The Extraordinary Women in Robert Oppenheimer’s Life, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary & Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)

26 SEPTEMBER 2013 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • SFSU Poetry Center and YBCA present way, a film by Konrad Steiner, made in collaboration with the late poet Leslie Scalapino, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street, at 3rd Street, YBCA members $10; students, seniors, teachers $8, two showings, 6:30 and 8:00 (www.sfsu.edu/~poetry, advance tickets: ybca.org)
  • Sixteen Rivers Press reading with poet Lynne Knight reading from her translation, I Know (Je Sais), by Ito Naga, and poet Miriam Bird Greenberg reading from All night in the new country, winner of the 2012 Poets-Under-Forty Chapbook Contest, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary & Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
  • City Arts & Lectures presents singer/songwriter Linda Ronstadt, author of Simple Dreams, a forthcoming memoir, in conversation with Roy Eisenhardt, Nourse Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $27, 7:30 (tickets: 415/392-4400, www.cityarts.net)

27 SEPTEMBER 2013 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • MFA Program Writers Series presents a poetry reading by Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Shy Green Fields, and Caroline Goodwin, Trapline, California College of the Arts, Writers' Studio, 195 De Haro, at 15th Street, San Francisco, free, 4:30 (415/551-9237, dmorini@cca.edu)
  • Norman Rush reads from his novel Subtle Bodies, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary & Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)

28 SEPTEMBER 2013 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Novelist Jonathan Lethem reads from Dissident Gardens, Moe's Berkeley, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, moesbooks.com)
  • Strawberry Creek Walk, part of the Watershed Poetry Festival, led by poet/eco-educator Chris Olander from University of California campus through downtown Berkeley to the Watershed Festival site, with readings by poets Jennifer Elise Foerster, Mary Mackey, Barbara Jane Reyes, John Shoptaw, Tom Wilson, and commentary by UC Berkeley creek restoration specialist, meet at Oxford and Center Streets, UC Berkeley campus, free, 10:00 a.m. (510/525-5476, mbb@poetryflash.org)
  • 18th Annual Watershed Poetry Festival with 100 Thousand Poets for Change features poetry readings by Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Gary Snyder and Robert Hass; Brenda Hillman, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire; Brian Teare, Companion Grasses; Ann Fisher-Wirth, co-editor of The Ecopoetry Anthology; giovanni singleton, Ascension; special guest Wang Jiaxin; Alan Soldofsky, In the Buddha Factory; Matthew Zapruder, Come On All You Ghosts; John Shoptaw, Barbara Jane Reyes, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Mary Mackey; Ozzie Zehner, Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism; Richard Silberg, and much more, John Oliver Simon and Maureen Hurley with K-12 students from Poetry Inside Out, River of Words, California Poets in the Schools, great jazz by The Barry Finnerty Trio, We are Nature Open Mic, (enter the drawing to read on site at noon); River Village exhibits for literary and environmental mags or organizations, and DIY mags, 'zines, books on sale by Pegasus Downtown, wheelchair accessible, e-mail to request ASL interpreter by September 20, near Berkeley BART, presented by Poetry Flash, Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers' Market, co-sponsored by Moe's Books, Ecocity Builders, Civic Center Park, Martin Luther King, Jr. Way at Center Street, Berkeley, noon-4:30 (510/525-5476, mbb@poetryflash.org)

29 SEPTEMBER 2013 — sunday

30 SEPTEMBER 2013 — monday

    SOUTH:
  • Poetry Workshop led by Los Gatos Poet Laureate Erica Goss, bring ten copies of your poem, drop-in, meets the last Monday of the month, Los Gatos Adult Recreation Center, Neighborhood Center, Room 2 downstairs, 208 East Main Street, Los Gatos, 6:00-8:00 (www.lgsrecreation.org)

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