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1 NOVEMBER 2013 — friday

    SOUTH:
  • Waverley Writers presents a poetry and media presentation by poet Charlotte Muse and visual artist Joyce Savre, open reading follows, Friends Meeting House, 957 Colorado Avenue, near Greer, free, Palo Alto, 7:30 (650/424-9877)

2 NOVEMBER 2013 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Book launch and live music performance for The Noise Beneath the Apple, a book of photos that comes with a vinyl record, Jason Adamo and Tara Hack will perform in-store, Green Apple Books, 506 Clement Street, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/387-2272, www.greenapplebooks.com)
  • Poetry and Psychoanalysis event honors J. David Frankel's memory and his love of writing, poetry, and psychoanalysis, bring a short poem to read, by yourself or someone else, J. David Frankel's poems will be read, refreshments, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, 444 Natoma, San Francisco, free, open to the public, 11:00 a.m.-1:30 (limited space, rsvp: 415/563-5815, sf-cp.org/poetry-and-psychoanalysis)
  • First Annual Social Justice Month presents poets and speakers on "What is Social Justice? Social Injustice?" with poet and activist John Curl, For All the People; Jack Hirschman, San Francisco Poet Laureate 2006-09; Ethel Long-Scott, Economic Agenda Project/WEAP; Aja Couchois Duncan, Ayat Jalal-Bryant; poet and activist Sarah Menefee; Sarah Page; music by Colin O'Leary; hosted by Jack Hirschman and Sarah Menefee, sponsored by The Revolutionary Poets Brigade and The World Poetry Movement, Art Internationale Gallery, 963 Pacific Street near Mason Street, free, San Francisco, 7:00 (www.socialjusticemonth.org)

3 NOVEMBER 2013 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Unbound Reading Series features Bruce Isaacson, editor of Zeitgeist Press, and MK Chavez, followed by brief open mic, hosted by Clive Matson and Richard Loranger, Art House Gallery, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, close to Ashby BART, $5, no one turned away, 5:00-8:00
  • SFSU Poetry Center and Small Press Traffic present a reading and a talk by Fred Moten on “The Undercommons,” Timken Hall, California College of the Arts, 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco, $10/$5, 5:00 (www.sfsu.edu/~poetry)

4 NOVEMBER 2013 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • City Arts & Lectures presents poet and prose writer August Kleinzahler, The Hotel Oneira, his Sleeping It Off in Rapid City won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, with photographer Alec Soth, whose publishing company is Little Brown Mushroom, in conversation with Steven Winn, presented in association with the Academy of American Poets, Nourse Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $27, 7:30 (tickets: 415/392-4400, www.cityarts.net)
  • Poetry Express presents featured poet Kirston Kothes and open mic, note new venue with mic and parking, Himalayan Flavors, 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley, 7:00 ( www.facebook.com/poetryexpressberkeley)
    NORTH:
  • Rivertown Poets: A Muse-ing Mondays with featured readers Stephen Kopel and John Johnson, hosted by Sandra Anfang, open mic follows, the series presents amateur and seasoned poets together, Aqus Café, 189 H Street, Petaluma, free, open mic sign up 6:30, reading 6:45 (tutor@sandraanfang.com, wdpntr51@gmail.com)
    EAST:
  • Sacramento Poetry Center presents California Navigations/Navegações a California: Portuguese-American Poets and Writers, a reading by poet Susan Kelly-KeWitt, fiction writer Tony John Roma, poet Linette Escobar, poet and translator Tim Kahl, poet Catherine Fraga, and poet Lara Gularte, Sacramento Poetry Center, 25th and R Complex, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, 7:30 (916/240-1897, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com, presencepresenca.wordpress.com)

5 NOVEMBER 2013 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Green Apple Books presents a reading and book signing by Internet comic Alle Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened, The Neck of the Words, 406 Clement Street, San Francisco, 7:00 (rsvp: 415/387-2272, www.greenapplebooks.com)

6 NOVEMBER 2013 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • KPFA Radio presents Bill Ayers, Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident, a benefit for KPFA hosted by Blanche Richardson, Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Oakland, $15 door/$12 in advance at Brown Paper Tickets online or at Pegasus, Marcus Books, Moe's, Walden Pond, Diesel, and Modern Times, 7:30 (tickets: Brown Paper Tickets 800/838-3006, www.brownpapertickets.com, www.kpfa.org/events)
  • City Arts & Lectures presents former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems 2003-2013, Nourse Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $27, 7:30 (tickets: 415/392-4400, www.cityarts.net)
  • First Wednesday Formal Poetry Series presents Poetry and Song featuring composer and concert pianist Aaron Blumenfeld performing excerpts from his Forty-Two Haiku Songs based on poems by the late Virginia K. Anderson and a selection of songs based on poems by Judith Goldhaber, Sonnets from Aesop, who will perform her poetry with soprano Eliza O'Malley and musician Willis Hickox, plus open reading encouraging formal work, hosted by David Rosenthal, St. Alban's Church, 1501 Washington Avenue, Albany, 7:00 (firstwednesdayformal.wordpress.com)
  • The SPD Literary Pub Quiz, win prizes, all proceeds benefit Small Press Distribution, Stork Club, 2330 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, $10 at door, 7:00 sharp to 9:00 (510/524-1668x308, www.spdbooks.org)
  • A release party for Heather Terrell's new young adult novel Relic, Green Apple Books, Granny Smith Room, 506 Clement Street, San Francisco, 7:00 (rsvp: 415/387-2272, www.greenapplebooks.com)

7 NOVEMBER 2013 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Lunch Poems presents a reading by Cynthia Cruz, The Glimmering Room, Morrison Library, 101 Doe Library, University of California campus, Berkeley, free, 12:10 (lunchpoems.berkeley.edu)
  • KPFA Radio presents poet Nikki Giovanni, a benefit for KPFA hosted by Blanche Richardson, First Congregational Church, 2501 Harrison, at 27th Street, Oakland, $15/$12 in advance at Brown Paper Tickets online or at Pegasus, Marcus Books, Moe's, Walden Pond, Diesel, and Modern Times, 7:30 (tickets: Brown Paper Tickets 800/838-3006, www.brownpapertickets.com, www.kpfa.org/events)
  • Poetry Flash presents George Higgins, There, There, and Greg Wrenn, Centaur, winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, 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)
    NORTH:
  • "Know More, Bullies and Bystanders: Poems and Letters," a panel discussion with Richard Cruwys Brown, MD, on Developmental/Psychological Issues and Bullying; former Marin County Poet Laureate CB Follett on Bullying and Visual Appearance; poet, writer, activist for students with disabilities, Rebecca Foust, on Bullying and Autism; and poet and activist Carolyn Losee on Bullying in Schools; moderated by Marin County Poet Laureate Joseph Zaccardi, on Bullying: Can Bystanders Make a Difference? A Gay Man's Perspective; Q&A period after the panel discussion, refreshments, Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Street, San Rafael, free, doors open 6:30, panel 7:00 (email questions to joezaccardi@comcast.net before event, or bring to the event, your identity will remain anonymous)
    SOUTH:
  • Brown Bag Poetry Workshop to read and share your poetry, bring ten copies of your poem, drop-in, with Los Gatos Poet Laureate Erica Goss, Los Gatos Library, 100 Villa Avenue, Los Gatos, noon-1:00 (www.losgatosca.gov)
    EAST:
  • Poetry Night Reading Series presents science fiction authors Kim Stanley Robinson, Shaman, and Andy Steward reading from new work, open mic featuring a performance by The Spokes a capella group follows, John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street, Davis, 8:00 (530/756-3939, www.poetryindavis.com)
  • Literary Lecture by Steve Cook, "The American West and its Competing Mythologies," Sacramento Poetry Center, 25th and R Complex, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, $10, 7:30 (916/240-1897, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com)

8 NOVEMBER 2013 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • Subhuman: True Tales from Beneath the Sea, actor Ed Holmes's humorous one-man show about his days as a mechanic aboard a diesel submarine in the 1960s, all proceeds benefit The Mission Continues, a veterans organization, Rhythmix Cultural Works, 2513 Blanding Avenue, Alameda, wheelchair accessible, $10-$25, 9:00 (www.rhythmix.org)
  • Last Word Reading Series presents a poetry reading by Ivan Argüelles, Ars Poetica, and Mary-Marcia Casoly, Lost Pages of Bird Lore, open reading follows, co-hosts Dale Jensen, Ralph Dranow, John Rowe, Grace Grafton, Nefeli Caffé, 1854 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, free but a one-drink or one-plate minimum is requested, 7:00 (Caffé: 510/841-6374)

9 NOVEMBER 2013 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poet, translator, and internationally recognized Rilke scholar Daniel Polikoff, In the Image of Orpheus: Rilke—A Soul History, presents a workshop talk on "Rilke: Poetry and Alchemy," a discussion of Rilke's life and work, C.G. Jung Institute, 2040 Gough Street, San Francisco, $35/$20, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 (tickets online: SFJung.org, rilke.eventbrite.com; the talk may also be heard as a webinar through Asheville Jung Center, ashevillejungcenter.org, at any time)
  • Rosa Lane reads from her published poetry and new work with David Rosenthal, open mic follows, hosted by Jeanne Lupton, Frank Bette Center for the Arts, 1601 Paru, at Lincoln, Alameda, donation, 7:00-9:00 (jeany98@aol.com, www.frankbettecenter.org)
  • First Annual Social Justice Month presents poets and speakers on "Human Trafficking & Gender Justice," Jeffrey D. Brown, fillmaker of Sold; Beverly Allen, author of Rape Warfare; Mahnaz Badihian, Judith Ayn Bernard, Kristina Brown, Agneta Falk, Jessica Loos; Alejandro Murguía, San Francisco Poet Laureate; music; hosted by Mahnaz Badihian and Agneta Falk, sponsored by The Revolutionary Poets Brigade and The World Poetry Movement, Emerald Tablet Gallery, 80 Fresno Street near Grant Avenue, free, San Francisco, 7:00 (www.socialjusticemonth.org)
    SOUTH:
  • Poetry reading by Alan Soldofsky, In the Buddha Factory, director of the Creative Writing Program at San Jose State University; poet and visual artist Meredith Stricker, author of Mistake and recent recipient of the Iowa Review Poetry Prize; and Santa Cruz poet Joseph Stroud, Of This World: New and Selected Poems, winner of the San Francisco State University Poetry Center's Book Award, Museum of Monterey, 5 Custom House Plaza, Monterey, 3:00 (831/372-2608, museumofmonterey.org/poetryreading)

10 NOVEMBER 2013 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Danse Lumiere dance theater presents "A Modern Schubertiade," an open dance rehearsal and performance based on the poetry of Tomas Tranströmer, choreography by Kathryn Roszak, Goethe-Institut, ART-Lounge, 530 Bush Street, San Francisco, $5, (415/263-8760, info@sanfrancisco.goethe.org, www.dlkdance.org)
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Amber Flora Thomas, The Rabbits Could Sing, and Sholeh Wolpé, author of Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths, and editor of The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and its Exiles, 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)
  • Valona Deli presents poets Peter Kline and Austin Smith, open mic follows, with host Connie Post, Terry Henry Jazz Trio performs after poetry, Valona Deli, 1323 Pomona, Crockett, reading 4:00, open mic 5:00 (510/787-2022)
  • Bay Area Writing Project presents "Writing Teachers Write," a reading series for writer-teachers, featuring poet and novelist Diane Frank, Blackberries in the Dream House, and poet Judy Bebelaar, cellist Erik Ievin from Stringfire, SF Sinfonietta, will play with the poets and solo, open mic follows, light refreshments, Expressions Gallery, 2035 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, free, 3:00-4:30 (510/644-4930, www.expressionsgallery.org)
    SOUTH:
  • Poets@Play workshop has a theme of "Family Gatherings and Remembering," listen, write, and discuss craft, Poetry Center San José, Markham House, History Park, 1650 Senter Road, San Jose, free, open to all, 1:00-4:00 (408/368-0353; rsvp: poetsatplay@pcsj.org, www.pcsj.org)

11 NOVEMBER 2013 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • The Odd Mondays at The Haystack Pizza presents a second Save City College Support Reading, with Erica Goss, Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, California; poet José Luis Gutiérrez; and journalist and debut novelist Li Miao Lovett, In the Lap of the Gods, on the displaced in China's Three Gorges, with music by vocalist/guitarist Julie Dillon, The Haystack Pizzeria, 3881 24th Street, Noe Valley, San Francisco, free, 6:00 (www.oddmondays.com)

12 NOVEMBER 2013 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • City Lights at 60 presents on Surréalisme: Theory, Practice, and in Play, an evening on City Lights's connection to Surrealism, with Garrett Caples, Peter Maravelis, and friends with readings, discussion, parlor games, and more, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
  • Fritjof Capra reads from and discusses his book Learning from Leonardo: Decoding the Notebooks of a Genius, Green Apple Books, Granny Smith Room, 506 Clement Street, San Francisco, 7:00 (rsvp: 415/387-2272, www.greenapplebooks.com)
  • Berkeley Arts & Letters presents neuroscientist Joshua Greene presents Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Up and Them, co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center, Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley, $20 at the door, $8 students in advance only, 7:30 (tickets: Brown Paper Tickets online, www.brownpapertickets.com, 800/838-3006, berkeleyarts.org)
  • Artist Warren Lehrer presents A Life in Books: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley, celebrating the book and its future as a medium, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, 7:30 (415/863-8688, booksmith.com)
  • Poetry at the Albany Library features An Evening of Poetry and Poetry-Meets-Flash Fiction with readings by poet and fiction writer Peter (Thomas) Bullen; poet Tracey Knapp; poet Alana Siegel, Archipelago; photographer and writer Ian Tuttle, StretchyHead, flash fiction set in San Francisco Bay Area restaurants; open mic follows, hosted by Catherine Taylor, Albany Library, Edith Stone Room, 1247 Marin Avenue, Albany, free, 7:00-9:00 (510/526-3720, albanylibrary.wordpress.com)
  • Poetry reading by Jack Marshall, Spiral Trace, and Alan Soldofsky, In the Buddha Factory, Books Inc. Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/776-1111, www.booksinc.net)
  • A reading by National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby, a personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, and Emmy Award-winning independent filmmaker Rebecca Snedeker, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, moesbooks.com)
    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)

13 NOVEMBER 2013 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Readings from the Berkeley Poetry Review by local contributors, to commemorate the release of its 43rd issue, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, moesbooks.com)
  • Creative Writing Reading Series presents novelist Cristina Garcia, The Lady Matador's Hotel, Soda Center, Claeys Lounge, Saint Mary's College, 1928 Saint Mary's Road, Moraga, 7:30 (Sara Mumolo, 925/631-8556, www.stmarys-ca.edu)
  • Journalist Ben Fong-Torres launches his rock biography, Willin': The Story of Little Feat, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, 7:30 (415/863-8688, booksmith.com)
  • Darrin May reads from his debut novel Look Around, Green Apple Books, Granny Smith Room, 506 Clement Street, San Francisco, 7:00 (rsvp: 415/387-2272, www.greenapplebooks.com)
  • Poetry Center San José's Well-RED Reading Series presents a reading by faculty, graduates, and students of Creative Writing from San Jose State University, with writer, director, and actor Steve "Spike" Wong, poet Sage Curtis, essayist Marian D'Avollo, fiction writer Kelly Harrison, fiction writer and poet Sarah Lyn Rogers, poet and writer Tara Phillips, poet and writer Ashley Florimonte, and literary journalist Chris Krohn, Works/San José, 365 South Market Street, near the San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, $2, doors open 6:30, show 7:00 (www.pcsj.org)
    NORTH:
  • Sunset Poetry by the Bay presents a reading by Parthenia M. Hicks, Poet Laureate Emeritus of Los Gatos, California, One Night She Swallowed the Moon, Kathryn Ridall, publisher of What the River Brings: Oregon River Poems, and Adrienne Amundsen, Cassandras Falling, Studio 333 Art Gallery, 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito, 7:00 (415/331-8272, poetnews@sonic.net, http://isledesk.com/islepress/SunsetPoetry.html)
    SOUTH:
  • Creative Writers Series presents a reading and book signing with essayist, playwright, filmmaker, actor Joe Loya, author of the memoir, The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell: Confessions of a Bank Robber, reception follows, Wiegand Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, 1500 Ralston Avenue, Belmont, free, 7:30 (jberger@ndnu.edu)

14 NOVEMBER 2013 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Alameda Island Poet's Poetry Workshop, every second Thursday monthly, all poets and writers welcome, bring three to five minutes of writing to share and discuss if you wish, hosted by Vince Storti and friends, Frank Bette Center for the Arts, 1601 Paru, at Lincoln, Alameda, donation, 7:00-9:00 (vincestorti@hotmail.com, www.frankbettecenter.org)
  • Novelist Daniel Alarcón reads from At Night We Walk in Circles, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, 7:30 (415/863-8688, booksmith.com)
  • Historian Peter Maguire and former drug smuggler John Ritter present their book Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade, Green Apple Books, Granny Smith Room, 506 Clement Street, San Francisco, 7:00 (rsvp: 415/387-2272, www.greenapplebooks.com)
  • SFSU Poetry Center presents a tribute to the late jazz poet Jayne Cortez, featuring Robin D.G. Kelley, in conversation with Justin Desmangles, The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, free, 4:30 (www.sfsu.edu/~poetry)
  • Poetry Flash presents Roxane Beth Johnson and Tess Taylor, 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)

15 NOVEMBER 2013 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • Hearts Desire monthly reading series presents poet and playwright Brandon Brown, C.S. Giscombe, and cross-genre poet Carla Harryman, Bay Area Public School, 2141 Broadway, Oakland, 8:00 (heartsdesirereadingseries.tumblr.com, thepublicschool.org/bay-area)
  • Literary Clown Foolery: Bicycles and Burlesque, with Chris Carlsson and LisaRuth Elliot, editors of SHIFT HAPPENS! Critical Mass at 20, performers take on bicycles and the future of San Francisco, drinks and snacks, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, $10, tickets in the store or at Brown Paper Tickets online, 8:00 (415/863-8688, booksmith.com, www.brownpapertickets.com)
  • First Annual Social Justice Month presents poets and speakers on "Food Justice, Hunger & Sustainability," with Kevin Danaher, Global Exchange; Miguel Robles, Biosafety Alliance; Dee Allen; poet and activist John Curl; devorah major; David Volpendesta; Cathleen Williams; music by Curry Without Worry with Jim Steinke and Jerry Ferraz; hosted by Karen Melander Magoon, sponsored by The Revolutionary Poets Brigade and The World Poetry Movement, Unitarian Universalist Church, 1187 Franklin Street, near Geary, free, San Francisco, 7:00 (www.socialjusticemonth.org)

16 NOVEMBER 2013 — saturday

    NORTH:
  • "The Writer's Eye: Seeing Through a Different Lens," a class with therapist and writer Catherine Flaxman, for writers, memoirists, journal writers and more, single session, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, 616 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley, $40/$32 members, 3:00-6:00 (rsvp by November 13: 415/388-4331, www.ohanloncenter.org)
    EAST:
  • Crossroads series presents a reading by fiction writer Lucy Corin, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses, and poet and fiction writer Mary Mackey, Sugar Zone, Center for Contemporary Art, 1519 19th Street, Sacramento, 3:00 (www.ccasac.org)

17 NOVEMBER 2013 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Sheppard Benet Kominars reads from and discusses his new book, Portal Poems: Perspectives on Aging, following Mass, you need not attend the service to attend the reading, all are welcome, All Saints Church, 1350 Waller Street, San Francisco, free, 11:30 a.m. (write-for-life@pacbell.net)
  • Small Press Traffic presents Robert Kocik, Artists' Television Access, 922 Valencia Street, at 21st, San Francisco, $6-$10, no one turned away for lack of funds, doors open 5:00, reading 5:30 (smallpresstraffic.org)
  • Lunada Literary Lounge and Open Mic presents a multiple-genre event, with dance and choreographer Amara Tabor-Smith, founder of Deep Waters Dance Theater, with musical guest Mestiza, composer/vocalist Lina Luna Torio, with open mic, hosted by poet Sandra Garcia Rivera, Galería de la Raza, 2857 24th Street, San Francisco, $5, sign up for open at 7:15, event 7:30 (415/826-8009, www.galeriadelaraza.org)
    EAST:
  • Ravenswood Poetry Series presents Dean Rader, Landscape Portrait Figure Form, and Dane Cervine, How Therapists Dance, open mic follows, hosted by Livermore Poet Laureate Kevin Gunn, light refreshments, Ravenswood, 2657 Arroyo Road, Livermore, $5, 2:00-4:00 (kngrhino@yahoo.com or connie@poetrypost.com)

18 NOVEMBER 2013 — monday

    EAST:
  • Open Mic Night co-sponsored by Tri-Valley Writers, five-minute slots for prose, poetry, and acoustic music, all welcome, Pleasanton Public Library, 400 Old Bernal Avenue, Pleasanton, free, sign up between 6:00 and 6:15 (925/931-3400x4; Jordan Bernal, openmic@trivalleywriters.org)

19 NOVEMBER 2013 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Jung Chang, Empess Dowager CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China, Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley, $15 advance/$20 at the door, $8 students, 7:30 (tickets: Brown Paper Tickets online, www.brownpapertickets.com, 800/838-3006, berkeleyarts.org)
  • The Irish Literary and Historical Society commemorates the late Nobel Laureate poet Seamus Heaney's Berkeley Days with presentations by Robert Tracy and Robert Hass, bring your favorite Heaney poem to share with the audience, Mechanics' Institute, 4th Floor Meeting Room, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, $15/members free, 6:00 (rsvp: 415/393-0103, www.milibrary.org)
  • City Arts & Lectures presents nonfiction author Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, in conversation with Jon Mooallem, Nourse Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $27, 7:30 (tickets: 415/392-4400, www.cityarts.net)
  • USF MFA in Writing Program, Lone Mountain Readings presents a poetry reading by Thomas Sayers Ellis, The Genuine Negro Hero, a chapbook, and The Maverick Room, winner of the John C. Zacharis First Book Award, among other titles, University of San Francisco, Xavier Hall, Fromm Hall, corner of Golden Gate Avenue and Parker Avenue, main campus, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, free, 7:45 (www.usfca.edu/mfaw)
  • Literary Clown Foolery: Bicycles and Burlesque, with Chris Carlsson and LisaRuth Elliot, editors of SHIFT HAPPENS! Critical Mass at 20, performers take on bicycles and the future of San Francisco, drinks and snacks, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, $10, tickets in the store or at Brown Paper Tickets online, 8:00 (415/863-8688, booksmith.com, www.brownpapertickets.com)
  • The Word Party Poetry & Jazz Open Mic, every third Tuesday of the month, live jazz with Nova Jazz, Daniel Heffrez on sax, Geordie Van Der Bosch percussion, and Leslie Thorne, hosted by Jennifer Barone and Ingrid Keir, Viracocha, 998 Valencia Street, at 21st Street, San Francisco, $5, open mic sign up 8:00 sharp, show 8:00 (www.thewordparty.com)
  • Wes "Scoop" Nisker, The Big Bang, The Buddha, and the Baby Boom, presents a reading, "How to Be an Earthling: Writings, Routines, Schtick," of his work in progress, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, moesbooks.com)
  • City Lights at 60 presents an evening on Women of the Beat Generation, with readings and discussion by Beat poet ruth weiss and others, hosted by Brenda Knight, editor of the Women of the Beat Generation anthology, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
    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)

20 NOVEMBER 2013 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • City Arts & Lectures presents Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver, American Primitive, Nourse Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $30, 7:30 (tickets: 415/392-4400, www.cityarts.net)
  • Legendary Beat poet Michael McClure reads to celebrate the publication of Ghost Tantras, republished nearly fifty years since its original debut, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, at Broadway, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
  • Jonathan Miles reads from his second novel, Want Not, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, 7:30 (415/863-8688, booksmith.com)
  • Lyrics & Dirges, a monthly reading series, features Charles Kruger, Monica Wesolowska, Airial Clark, Alicia Zakon, Carleen Tibbetts, and Angela Roberts, curated and hosted by 'zine maven Tomas Moniz, refreshments, Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/649-1320, www.pegasusbookstore.com)
  • First Annual Social Justice Month presents poets and speakers on "Immigration Justice & Multiculturalism," with Arnoldo Garcia, former director, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights/NNRR; Adiran Arias; Leticia Hernandez; Genny Lim; Mamacoatl; Dottie Payne; music by Los Carpinteros; hosted by Nina Serrano, sponsored by The Revolutionary Poets Brigade and The World Poetry Movement, Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission Street, near 25th Street, free, San Francisco, 7:00 (www.socialjusticemonth.org)
    SOUTH:
  • Center for Literary Arts presents the annual James D. Houston Memorial Lecture, a poetry reading by Barbara Jane Reyes, Diwata, winner of the Global Filipino Literary Award, Rooms 225/229, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, 150 E. San Fernando, San Jose, 7:00 (408/924-4600, www.litart.org)

21 NOVEMBER 2013 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Berkeley Poets Cooperative Workshop meets on the third Thursday of each month, drop-in okay, give feedback and share your poetry, 609 Curtis Street, near Thousand Oaks, Albany, 7:30 (510/367-4248)
  • Pacifica Writers' Forum is open to all readers and writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, share your work or listen, third Thursday of each month, Florey's Book Company, 2129 Palmetto Avenue, Pacifica, 7:30 (650/355-8811, floreysbooks.blogspot.com)
  • Berkeley Arts & Letters presents psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence, co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center, International House, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, at Bancroft Way, Berkeley, $20 at the door, $15/$8 students in advance only, 7:30 (tickets: Brown Paper Tickets online, www.brownpapertickets.com, 800/838-3006, berkeleyarts.org)
    NORTH:
  • Marin Poetry Center presents a reading by Rae Gouriand, Open Winter, and Louise Mathias, Lark Apprentice, refreshments, Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Street, at E Street, San Rafael, $5/$3 MPC members, 7:30 (events@marinpoetrycenter.org, www.marinpoetrycenter.org)
  • Friends of the Mendocino College Library presents novelist C.D. Payne reading from Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp, and his other humorous works, Room 4210, Mendocino College Library, 1000 Hensley Creek Road, Ukiah, 7:00 (707/468-3051, www.mendocino.edu)
  • Writers Read features a reading by poet Elaine Watt, Soap and a Handful of Sand, Lake County Poet Laureate, open mic follows, refreshments, Art Center Ukiah's Corner Gallery, 201 S. State Street, Ukiah, donation requested, 7:00 (707/463-6989, 707/462-4557, www.coloredhorse.wordpress.com)
  • Writers Forum presents a seminar on all aspects of writing and publishing non-fiction book projects, "Non-fiction Storytelling: Writing, Reporting and publishing True Stories," with non-fiction writer Katya Cengal, Bluegrass Baseball: A Year in the Minor League Life, $15 at the door, Petaluma Community Center, 320 No. McDowell Blvd., Petaluma, 7:00-9:00 (www.thewritespot.us)
    SOUTH:
  • Poetry Center San José presents reading by Marta Wallien, open mic follows, Willow Glen Library, 1157 Minnesota Avenue, San Jose, 7:00 (408/808-3045, or 408/266-1361, www.pcsj.org, willowglenpoetry.com)
    EAST:
  • Third Thursdays in the Central Library, open reading of your favorite poems, preferably by someone else, hosted by Lawrence Dinkins and Mary Zeppa, Sacramento Poetry Center, Central Library, 828 I Street, Sacramento, free, noon-1:00 (www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com)
  • Literary Lecture by Bill Pieper, "150 Years of Sacramento Literary History," Sacramento Poetry Center, 25th and R Complex, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, $10, 7:30 (916/240-1897, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com)

22 NOVEMBER 2013 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • First Annual Social Justice Month presents poets and speakers on "Racial Profiling, Police Brutality & Prisons," with Al Young, California Poet Laureate emeritus; Kiilu Nyasha, revolutionary journalist, host of "Freedom is a Constant Struggle"; Dee Allen; Martin Hickel; Anne Leonard; Karen Melander Magoon; Michael Warr; music by Carol Denney; hosted by John Curl, sponsored by The Revolutionary Poets Brigade and The World Poetry Movement, Unitarian Universalist Church, 1187 Franklin Street, near Geary, free, San Francisco, 7:00 (www.socialjusticemonth.org)
    NORTH:
  • Poetry & Music of the One Heart: An Evening to Relax as the Truth of Who You Are, presenters: Scott Miller, Robin Cottrell, Margy Henderson, Marcella Ries, and Noris Binet, 206 Mason Street, Ukiah, $15, 7:00 (707/462-2580, yomo@pacific.net)

23 NOVEMBER 2013 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • A poetry reading by Anita Barrows and Bill Mayer, refreshments, Mythos Gallery, 2725 Hilgard Avenue, at La Vereda, Berkeley, 2:00-4:00 (510/277-2269)
  • A reading by poet Paul Hoover, Desolation: Souvenir, editor of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, co-editor of New American Writing, followed by winners of the Ina Coolbrith Circle's 94th Annual Poetry Contest reading their award-winning poems, open to the public, Lafayette/Orinda Presbyterian Church, 49 Knox Drive, Lafayette, 2:00-4:00 (alpaugh.david@gmail.com)
  • A reading by poet Garrett Murphy and novelist Judy Juanita, Virgin Soul, open mic follows, hosted by Jeanne Lupton, Frank Bette Center for the Arts, 1601 Paru, at Lincoln, Alameda, donation, 7:00-9:00 (jeany98@aol.com, www.frankbettecenter.org)

24 NOVEMBER 2013 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • First Annual Social Justice Month presents poets and speakers on "Social Justice: How We Get There," with Matt Gonzalez, chief attorney, San Francisco Public Defender; Tony Gonzales, American Indian Movement West; poet and memoirist Luis J. Rodriquez, Always Running: La Vida Loca; Virginia Barrett; Yolanda Catzalco; poet and writer Neeli Cherkovski; Steven Gray; Gary Hicks; Jack Hirschman, San Francisco Poet Laureate 2006-09; Dottie Payne; music by Eliot Kenin; hosted by John Curl, sponsored by The Revolutionary Poets Brigade and The World Poetry Movement, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, near Market Street, free, San Francisco, 1:00-3:00 (www.socialjusticemonth.org)
    NORTH:
  • Poetry and Prose at the MINE presents a reading by poet Barbara Swift Brauer, At East in the Borrowed World, and short story writer Kaitlyn Gallagher, 181, MINE Gallery, 1820 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Fairfax, 3:00 (415/847-4160, amy@gallerymine.com)

25 NOVEMBER 2013 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • City Arts & Lectures presents Academy Award-winning actress, director, and memoirist Anjelica Huston, A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York, in conversation with Steven Winn, Nourse Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $27/$37 tickets include VIP seating and signed copy of the memoir, 7:30 (tickets: 415/392-4400, www.cityarts.net)
    NORTH:
  • "Cycle of Rebirth," poetry and discussion with David Madgalene, with Berkeley artist Bill Walzer sharing his sculptural woodwords inspired by the urban forest, limited open mic, Café Arrivederci, 11 G Street, San Rafael, $10, no-host dinner with informal conversation 5:30, presentations 6:45 (Angar: 415/492-8870, or David: 707/836-9586)
    SOUTH:
  • Poetry Workshop led by 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)

26 NOVEMBER 2013 — tuesday

    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)

27 NOVEMBER 2013 — wednesday

28 NOVEMBER 2013 — thursday

29 NOVEMBER 2013 — friday

30 NOVEMBER 2013 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • An evening of spoken word and spontaneous composition featuring poet and veteran Toby Lurie and the band These Are Not My Hands, all proceeds benefit The Mission Continues, a veterans organization, Rhythmix Cultural Works, 2513 Blanding Avenue, Alameda, wheelchair accessible, $10-$25, 8:00 (www.rhythmix.org)

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