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1 MARCH 2014 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poet and memoirist Lucille Lang Day and poet, painter, and collagist Daniel Marlin read from their work, Mythos/Hilgard, 2725 Hilgard Avenue, Berkeley, 3:00 (510/277-2269)
  • San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita and legendary poet Diane di Prima reads from her new collection, Poems Are Angels, in support of her ongoing medical expenses, Bird & Beckett Books, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, $25 for the twenty available seats/$15 for standing room, 6:30 (415/586-3733, www.birdbeckett.com)
    NORTH:
  • Michael Elias reads from his novel, The Last Conquistador, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 4:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)
  • Catherine Ann Jones reads from and discusses her book, Heal Your Self with Writing, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 1:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)

2 MARCH 2014 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry reading by poet, art critic, and corresponding editor for Art in America, Bill Berkson, Portrait & Dream: New & Selected Poems, and poet, novelist, and filmmaker Elizabeth Block, Celluloid Salutations, Bird & Beckett, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, 2:00 (415/586-3733, www.birdbeckett.com)
  • Poetry Unbound Reading Series presents a book launch reading for Joan Gelfand, The Long Blue Room, David Shaddock and Todd Temkin also read from their poetry, brief open mic follows, hosted by Clive Matson and Richard Loranger, Art House Gallery, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, near Ashby BART, $5, sign up for open 5:00, reading 5:15 (917/399-8743, mythkiller@hotmail.com)
    NORTH:
  • The Poetry & Music first Sundays series presents Kim Shuck and Nazbah Tom reading from new and selected work, joined by folk singer Ed Dang, hosted by Geri Digiorno, Redwood Café, 8240 Old Redwood Highway, Cotati, 5:00-7:00 (Café: 707/795-7868, www.redwoodcafe.com; www.petalumapoetrywalk.org)
  • Jennifer Ringer reads from her memoir, Dancing Through It: My Life in the Ballet, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 1:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)

3 MARCH 2014 — monday

    NORTH:
  • Helene Wecker reads from her novel, The Golem and the Jinni, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 7:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)
  • Rivertown Poets: A Muse-ing Mondays with featured readers Nancy Wakeman and 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)

4 MARCH 2014 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Eleven Eleven: Journal of Literature & Art celebrates the release of issue #15, hosted by California College of the Arts faculty adviser and editor Hugh Behm-Steinberg, The Opposite of Work, with readings from contributors, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)

5 MARCH 2014 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Holloway Poetry Series presents poet, essayist, critic, and scholar Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Drafts, reading from new and selected work, Hannah Ehrlinspiel also reads, University of California campus, Wheeler Hall, Third Floor, Maude Fife Room 315, Bancroft Way, Berkeley, 6:30 (hollowayreadingseries.wordpress.com)
  • A celebrate for the release of two new novels, David Grand reads from Mount Terminus and Wesley Stace reads from Wonderkid, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
    NORTH:
  • Book Passage presents Kelly Corrigan reading from and discussing her memoir, Glitter and Glue, Angelico Hall, Dominican University, 50 Acacia Avenue, San Rafael, $32, includes signed book, 7:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)
  • Mary Anne Radmacher and Liz Kalloch discuss their new book, She: A Celebration in Every Woman, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 7:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)

6 MARCH 2014 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Alice LaPlante reads from her new thriller, an ironic commentary on relationships, A Circle of Wives, Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Robert McDowell, The World Next to This One, and Terri Glass, request ASL interpreters one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
  • Matvei Yankelevich, Alpha Donut, and Julien Poirier, Short Stack, read from new and selected work, The Poetry Center, Humanites 512, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, 4:30 (415/338-2227, www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/)
    NORTH:
  • A reading and discussion by Roger Housden, Keeping the Faith Without a Religion, who is known for his editing of inspiring poetry anthologies, and poet Ellen Bass, Like a Beggar, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 7:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)

7 MARCH 2014 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • The Poetry Center presents Ugly Duckling Presse editors Matvei Yenkelevich and Julien Poirier with UDP poets and prose writers Clark Coolidge, Micah Ballard, Dodie Bellamy, Tom Comitta, Brent Cunningham, Patrick Dunagan, John Sakkis, Cedar Sigo, and Sara Wintz, The Green Arcade, 1680 Market Street, San Francisco, 7:30 (www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/)
    NORTH:
  • Dream expert and shamanic teacher Robert Moss discusses his book, The Boy Who Died and Came Back: Adventures of a Dream Archeologist in the Multiverse, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 7:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)
    SOUTH:
  • Waverley Writers presents featured readers, open reading follows, Friends Meeting House, 957 Colorado Avenue, near Greer, free, Palo Alto, 7:30 (650/424-9877)

8 MARCH 2014 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Babylon Salon's Spring Reading features PEN-Hemingway finalist, novelist Daniel Alarcón, At Night We Walk in Circles, and novelist Katie Crouch, Abroad, with novelist Robin Sloan, poet Melissa Stein, and short story writer Molly Antopol, Catina SF, lower level, 580 Sutter Street, San Francisco, free, cash bar, doors open 6:30 (www.babylonsalon.com)
  • A reading by Sara Mithra and Patty France, 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)
    NORTH:
  • Mohsin Hamid reads from his inventive novel, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 4:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)
  • Left Coast Writers presents poet Roy Mash reading from his book, Buyer’s Remorse, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 7:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)
    SOUTH:
  • 32nd Annual "In Celebration of the Muse" reading featuring Santa Cruz County women poets, Santa Cruz 7:30 (acsumrall@cruzio.com, poetrysantacruz.org)

9 MARCH 2014 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • D. Foy reads from his novel, Made to Break, Green Apple Books, 506 Clement Street, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/387-2272, www.greenapplebooks.com)
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Joan Naviyuk Kane, winner of the Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, Wendy Chin-Tanner, and Danniel Schoonebeek, all reading from their new books, 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 a poetry reading by Kelly Cressio Moeller and Bill Edmundson, Whatever It Takes to Make Us Feel Alive, open mic follows, host Connie Post, Terry Henry Jazz Trio performs after poetry, Valona Deli, 1323 Pomona Street, Crockett, reading 4:00, open mic 5:00 (510/787-2022)
    NORTH:
  • Carole Levy discusses her book, The Bumpy Road to Collaboration: How to Break Free from your Ego’s Hot Buttons, illustrated by whimsical cartoons, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 7:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)
  • Best-selling author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson discusses his new book, Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil, joined in conversation by Daniel Ellsberg, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 1:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)

10 MARCH 2014 — monday

    NORTH:
  • Best-selling author Rene Denfeld reads from her novel, The Enchanted, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 7:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)
    EAST:
  • Share your latest poem, excerpt from your novel, or perform an acoustic musical composition with a supportive audience, five-minute slots, not appropriate for those age sixteen and under, Pleasanton Public Library, 400 Old Bernal Avenue, Pleasanton, free, open mic sign up 6:00, reading 6:15 (925/931-3400x4; Jordan Bernal, openmic@trivalleywriters.org)

11 MARCH 2014 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry at the Albany Library presents a featured reading with Al Young, California Poet Laureate Emeritus, and poet and memoirist Adam David Miller, The Sky is a Page and Ticket to Exile, 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)
  • Green Apple Books presents Scott O’Conner reading from Half World, a fictional novel inspired by the CIA’s Project MKUltra, Hotel Rex, 562 Sutter Street, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/387-2272, www.greenapplebooks.com)
  • D. Foy celebrates the release of his new novel Made To Break, in conversation with Josh Mohr, Fight Song, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
    NORTH:
  • Kelly Parsons reads from his medical thriller, Doing Harm, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 6:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)

12 MARCH 2014 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry reading by Maxine Chernoff, Here, and Barbara Tomash, Arboreal, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
  • Adrianne Harun reads from her novel, A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain, in conversation with fiction writer Tom Barbash, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 7:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)
  • An Evening of Poetry and Prose with Robert Hass and Lyn Hejinian, poets, translators, and essayists; benefit dinner with Robert Hass at Berkeley Thai House and the poetry event, a combined ticket, is offered for $100 to $1,000, Revolution Books, dinner 5:00-7:00; seating is limited for the reading, $5-$25, 7:00 (Brown Paper Tickets: poetryandprose4revolutionbooks.bpt.me, www.revolutionbooks.org)
  • Creative Writing Reading Series presents novelist Joshua Mohr, Fight Song, Soda Center, Claeys Lounge, Saint Mary's College, 1928 Saint Mary's Road, Moraga, free, 7:30 (Sara Mumolo, 925/631-8556, www.stmarys-ca.edu)
  • Isabelle Thuy Pelaud and guests read in celebration of Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora, The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, 2:00 (415/338-2227, www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/)
  • Sharon Kay Penman reads from her novel, The King’s Ransom, the sequel to her best-seller Lionheart, Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, 6:00 (415/835-1020, www.bookpassage.com)
    NORTH:
  • Isabelle Thuy Pelaud and guests read in celebration of Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora, The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, 2:00 (415/338-2227, www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/)

13 MARCH 2014 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry reading by George Albon, Aspiration, and Colleen Lookingbill, the forgetting of, The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, 4:30 (415/338-2227, www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/)
  • Thursdays at Readers Poetry Series presents Aja Couchois Duncan and Tiffany Higgins, Reader’s Bookstore, Building C, South End, Fort Mason Center, off Marina Blvd. at Buchanan Street, San Francisco, 6:30 (415/771-1076, www.friendssfpl.org/?Events)
  • Dia Felix celebrates the release of her new novel, the latest in the City Lights/Sister Split series, Nochita, joined by special guest Camille Roy, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Tung-Hui Hu, Greenhouses, Lighthouses, and Benjamin Paloff, request ASL interpreters one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
  • Holloway Poetry Series presents Julie Patton, Using Blue To Get Black, Notes for Some (Nominally) Awake, and A Garden Per Verse (or What Else do You Expect from Dirt?), co-sponsored by Mixed Blood, earlier in the day Julie Patton will give a lecture to be announced, University of California campus, Wheeler Hall, Third Floor, Maude Fife Room 315, Bancroft Way, Berkeley, 6:30 (hollowayreadingseries.wordpress.com)

14 MARCH 2014 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • Open poetry reading, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, 2278 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, 7:00 (510/238-9171, rpscollective.org)
  • Last Word Reading Series presents a poetry reading by Dale Jensen and Grace Marie Grafton, Jester, 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)

15 MARCH 2014 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Modern "Schubertiade" Benefit and Brunch supports Danse Lumiere's literary dance theater's New York tour incorporating the poetry of Tomas Tranströmer, this performance is a rehearsal of "Schubertiade," an updated version of a music and dance salon originally created by Schubert, choreography by Kathryn Roszak with pianists Michael Seth Orland and Karen Rosenak playing Schubert, followed by light brunch with the artists, Haba Na Haba Studio and Gardens, 1936 Thousand Oaks, Berkeley, seating is limited, donation of $25 and up, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 (tickets: e-mail kdance@sonic.net)
    NORTH:
  • WordTemple presents a poetry reading by Clive Matson, Mainline to the Heart and other Poems, with cellist Gael Alcock, and poet to be announced, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol Veterans Memorial Building, 282 South High Street, Sebastopol, 7:00 (sebarts.org)
  • Helen Oyeyemi reads from her novel, Boy, Snow, Bird, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 1:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)

16 MARCH 2014 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Hotel Press reading features Ivan Argüelles, Ars Poetica, Jack and Adelle Foley, Eyes, and Clara Hsu, Babouche Impromptu, poetry and prose, Bird & Beckett Books, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, 2:00-4:00 (415/586-3733, www.birdbeckett.com)
  • Small Press Traffic presents Renee Gladman, Event Factory, and Evelyn Reilly, Apocalypso, reading from new and selected work, hosted by former SPT Director Jocelyn Saidenberg, Artists’ Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, $6-$10 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds, doors open 5:00 reading 5:30 (smallpresstraffic.org)
    SOUTH:
  • Casey FitzSimons, The Breeze Was Mine: Poems in Form, reads from new and selected work, open mic follows, Know Knew Books, 366 State Street, Los Altos, 8:00-10:00 (650/326-9355, knowknewbooks.com)

17 MARCH 2014 — monday

18 MARCH 2014 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Peniel E. Joseph, Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama, discusses his new book on the life of Stokely Carmichael, Stokely: A Life, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)

19 MARCH 2014 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • KPFA Radio and Project Censored present political writer and poet Peter Dale Scott discussing his book, Deep Politics, Dark Events, hosted by investigative journalist Bonnie Faulkner, The Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley, $12 advance at independent bookstores or brownpapertickets.com/$15 door, 7:30 (www.kpfa.org/events)
  • City Lights presents Michelle Tea reading from her anthology of feminist, gender-bending, genre-busting writing and artwork, Sister Spit, Ali Liebegott reads from her novel Cha-Ching!, Beth Lisick reads from her memoir Yokohama Threeway And Other Small Shames, and Dia Felix reads from her novel Nochita, and joined by Chinaka Hodge, Rhiannon Argo, and Virgie Tovar, all to kick off the Sister Spit 2014 tour, The Elbo Room, 647 Valencia Street, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/552-7788, www.citylights.com)

20 MARCH 2014 — 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)
  • Holloway Poetry Series presents Renee Gladman giving the annual Leslie Scalapino Lecture, "The Sentence as a Space for Living: Prose Architecture," University of California campus, Wheeler Hall, Third Floor, Maude Fife Room 315, Bancroft Way, Berkeley, 6:30 (hollowayreadingseries.wordpress.com)
  • Brenda Webster, Vienna Triangle, reads from her new novel After Auschwitz: A Love Story, Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
  • Thursdays at Readers Poetry Series presents Al Young, California Poet Laureate Emeritus, and Sarah Menefee, Reader’s Bookstore, Building C, South End, Fort Mason Center, off Marina Blvd. at Buchanan Street, San Francisco, 6:30 (415/771-1076, www.friendssfpl.org/?Events)
    NORTH:
  • Marin Poetry Center presents a reading by Ellen Bass and Andrea Hollander, Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Street, San Rafael, 7:30 (events@marinpoetrycenter.org, www.marinpoetrycenter.org)

21 MARCH 2014 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poet Alison Luterman performs with Wing it! ensemble members in "Money Run Amok," dancing at the corner of need and greed, improvised song, story, dance on the theme of money, two-evening run, InterPlayce, 2273 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, Oakland, $10 advance/$15 door, 7:30 (tickets: 510/465-2797, www.interplay.org, www.AlisonLuterman.com)
  • Poetry reading by James Sherry, Four For, and Kit Robinson, Determination, Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell Street, above Sutter, San Francisco, $10, public parking at Sutter-Stockton garage one block east, 7:30 (415/338-2227, www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/)
  • The Sister Spit 2014 tour continues, with Michelle Tea reading from her anthology of feminist, gender-bending, genre-busting writing and artwork, Sister Spit, Ali Liebegott reads from her new novel Cha-Ching!, Beth Lisick reads from her memoir Yokohama Threeway And Other Small Shames, and Dia Felix reads from her novel Nochita, Rock Paper Scissors Community Art Space, 2278 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, 8:00 (510/238-9171, www.citylights.com)

22 MARCH 2014 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • A reading by Claude Convers and Marin Poetry Center poet Roy Mash, 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)
  • Poet Alison Luterman performs with Wing it! ensemble members in "Money Run Amok," dancing at the corner of need and greed, improvised song, story, dance on the theme of money, two-evening run, InterPlayce, 2273 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, Oakland, $10 advance/$15 door, 7:30 (tickets: 510/465-2797, www.interplay.org, www.AlisonLuterman.com)
  • Sugartown Publishing book launch for Judy Wells, The Glass Ship, poems inspired by Irish island-voyager tales, with invited guests reading great poems from the Irish and Irish-American canon, hosted by Jannie Dresser, Folk & Fine Art Gallery, 1861-A Solano Avenue, Berkeley, $5-$10 sliding scale, doors open 7:30, reading 8:15 (www.sugartownpublishing.com)
    SOUTH:
  • East-West Arts Equinox: a local and international poetry reading by Russian-born poet Tatyana Apraksina, California Psalms, her translator James Manteith, and poet and prose writer John Dotson, Museum of Monterey, 5 Custom House Plaza, Monterey, free with museum admission, 2:00-4:00 (831/372-2608, pete.rerig@montereyhistory.org)

23 MARCH 2014 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry reading by Robin Caton, The Color of Dusk, Director and a faculty member of Dharma College, and her daughter, Seattle poet Laura Neuman, University Press Books, 2430 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, 3:00-4:30 (510/548-0585, universitypressbooks.com)
  • Peggy Simmons facilitates a creative writing workshop for writers of all ages, drop-ins welcome, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, 2278 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, $1-$25, sliding scale, 7:00-9:30 (510/238-9171, www.greenwindowswriters.org)
  • Sugartown Publishing poetry reading by Judith Yamamoto, At My Table, with her poet son, Peter Yamamoto, Journey, wine and food, St. Francis Square Co-op Social Hall, Geary Blvd., San Francisco, park in the Japan Town parking lot across the street from St. Francis Square, entrance to venue on Lottie Benett Lane at Western Shores Lane, look for balloons, 1:00-4:00
    NORTH:
  • Poetry SoCo, presented by Andrew Mayer on fourth Sundays monthly, presents a poetry reading by Mike Tuggle, Gwynn O'Gara, Penelope La Montagne, and Susan Kennedy, open mic follows, Coffee Catz, 6761 Sebastopol Avenue, Sebastopol, 2:30-5:30 (andrewimft@comcast.net)

24 MARCH 2014 — monday

25 MARCH 2014 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Cara Black reads from Murder in Pigalle, BookShop West Portal, 80 West Portal Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/564-8080, www.bookshopwestportal.com)
  • EVENT POSTPONED: Chip Martin and Ron Bauer discuss the life and times of George Whitman, the late proprietor of Shakespeare & Co., sister bookstore of City Lights Books in Paris, France, to celebrate the release of The King of Bohemia: A Memoir of Legendary Bookseller George Whitman, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)

26 MARCH 2014 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Canessa Park Reading Series presents a poetry reading to celebrate three new books by Tiff Dressen, Songs from the Astral Bestiary, Todd Melicker, rendezvous, Joseph Noble, Antiphonal Airs, Canessa Park Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street, at Columbus, San Francisco, $6, no one turned away for lack of funds, doors open 7:00, reading 7:30 (Avery Burns, aedburns@yahoo.com)
  • Poetry reading by poet and translator Marcia Falk, author of three books of poetry and several translations of biblical and modern poetry from the Hebrew and Yiddish, including The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible, with poet Steven Rood, I Say Your Name, hosted by Richard Silberg, The Horses: New and Selected Poems, reading from new work, refreshments, Temple Sinai, Albers Chapel, entrance is on Webster Street, just north of 28th Street beside the parking lot, “2808 Summit” is written above the door, enter from the Telegraph Avenue side, Temple is two blocks east of Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, free, 7:30 (Phil Rubin, 510/547-8080; www.oaklandsinai.org)

27 MARCH 2014 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry reading features Joan Gelfand, The Long Blue Room, Jack and Adelle Foley, Eyes, and Clara Hsu, Babouche Impromptu, poetry and prose, BookShop West Portal, 80 West Portal Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/564-8080, www.bookshopwestportal.com)
  • Thursdays at Readers Poetry Series presents poets Maria Median Serafin and Thanasis Maskaleris, Reader’s Bookstore, Building C, South End, Fort Mason Center, off Marina Blvd. at Buchanan Street, San Francisco, 6:30 (415/771-1076, www.friendssfpl.org/?Events)
    NORTH:
  • Writers Read features a poetry reading by Mary Norbert Körte, 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)

28 MARCH 2014 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • Omnidawn Night poetry reading from new Omnidawn Publishing books by Julie Carr, Rag, Gillian Conoley, Peace, Endi Bogue Hartigan, POOL [5 Choruses], Karla Kelsey, A Conjoined Book, and Craig Santos Perez, [ guma' ], Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)

29 MARCH 2014 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • "Revisiting the Rose," a poetry reading by Luis Garcia and Belle Randall, reception and refreshments, Mythos Gallery, 2725 Hilgard Avenue, at La Vereda Road, Berkeley, 4:00-6:00 (mythosfineart@gmail.com)
  • Ina Coolbrith Circle presents a poetry reading by John Ridland, followed by winners of the Poets' Dinner 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)

30 MARCH 2014 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Patrick Donnelly and Robert Thomas, 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)
  • Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition presents a reading by participants from their award-winning works, including poet Gary Turchin reading from Falling Home, reception follows, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library, Civic Center, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 1:00 (sfpl.org)
    NORTH:
  • Hand to Mouth/Words Spoken Out series presents a book launch and reading for Robin Lee's The Live Long Day: Collected Poems, open mic follows, refreshments, donation requested, Rebound Bookstore, 1611 4th Street, San Rafael, 4:00-6:00 (415/482-0550, reboundbookstore@aol.com)

31 MARCH 2014 — monday


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